Yah, typical, not a problem, lube there and where the cable goes down thru the frame, also at front where cable goes into the frame tube.

Walt Conner

loboy, I have one of the 28086S models myself. You can go to the Snapper website and download the parts manual and the service manual as PDF documents (free). I recommend you do that and save them in your computer. They are pretty helpful and you can print a page to carry to the mower when you are in maintenance mode.

The cable must have the outside wound cable housing on it, to prevent just what you have described. Maybe at some point in time, the cable was replaced, using just a piece of plain wire.
Rusty Jones, a long time owner of Snapper RER's!

Rusty, that's what I thought at first too, was that the original had been replaced by just a piece of cable, but when I looked up the part and checked it out on a couple of websites, they all just show a bare cable, no sheathing on it.

I tracked it down to Part # 1-5476 - is there a different part number I should be lookng for?

Thanks.

Part # 1-5476 is the correct number and yes, it is a bare cable.