Mower blade adapter pins sheared

[LunkerLover84]

So while removing the blade on my craftsman mower I noticed the holding pins on the blade adapter were sheared! I've been running the mower like this all summer. Is it safe running it this way? Should I just order a new adapter?

[my4x4yj]

you need a new adapter, the sheared pins indicate that the blade struck something and sheared the pin saving damage to the motor. Without the pin the blade can spin on the crank shaft and stop in heavy cutting areas or worse come off and cause other damage. Take you mower model number to a small engine shop or garden center and get a new adapter for in the neighborhood of $10, replaced two this summer on the push mower that the wife uses as she just pushes it into everything that has a weed growing out of it.

[LunkerLover84]

Thanks for the advice. I wish I would have noticed this earlier in the season. Maybe that is why the mower hasn't seemed so be cutting all that great as of late.