got the mower fixed

... I hope. I got it back together, but it was too late in the evening to start it up.

I got the deck off the tractor last night, and removed the... I'm not sure what it's called... arbor assembly? It's the axle and bearings in a housing with a belt pulley on top, and the blade on the bottom. Today I took it to the shop to get replacement parts. I put them together and got them mounted on the mower deck. Later, I got the deck back on the tractor.

I'm not 100% convinced it is good. When I first put it all together, when I bolted the pulley on top of it, the shaft wouldn't spin. I figured out that the bearing wasn't far enough down in the housing, so I got a punch and hammered it down farther. Then it spun OK. Except... there was a light steel-on-steel sound. I thought "oh well. Maybe it will wear smooth." The more I think about it, the more worried I get. I should have at least compared it to the good one (there are two blades on the deck), to see if it made a similar noise. But I'm pretty sure it doesn't.

I guess I'll turn on the blades for a bit, then shut everything down and see if it is warm to the touch.