Buying Advice Done with hydrostatics

[4570Man]

Your low end mower broke after 9 years. I hate it for you. You probably also get upset when your harbor freight ratchet strips in half the time it takes a snap on. Pony up and buy quality or quite complaining about low quality stuff.

 

[fitterski]

OK, that is what I would think most people do.
Your quote didn't read that way and I was wondering :confused3:

It may have sounded frightful, because it *is* frightful running full tilt on short grass. The full speed is a handful and at times you gotta work pretty intensely to hang on to the steering Thing is, the machine has no feelings but it still seems to be cutting a swath in a regime that it feels very good in.

 

[flewism]

I still have a 2003 cub- cadet 1529 running well with a 19 HP Kawasaki, and hydro. The one thing I learn the hard way is lawn tractors with sealed hydro's don't pull anything. I burned up two prior to buying this one which now has 1600 hours on it and has never pushed or pulled anything but itself. It doesn't push snow, pull a lawn cart, roller, spreader, nothing, even though the owners manual said it can and implements are sold to fit it.

That is the only reason I believe it has lasted this long.

 

[fitterski]

Your low end mower broke after 9 years. I hate it for you. You probably also get upset when your harbor freight ratchet strips in half the time it takes a snap on. Pony up and buy quality or quite complaining about low quality stuff.

Not this boy. What I see is that I paid good money for a mower on which after only 300 hours there is still a very good engine because I had maintained it well, an excellent almost better than new deck because I have maintained and modified it over the years, like-new tires and the rest of a very long list that clearly establishes what *is* reasonably expectable for $3500 including tax. But it all bombed without warning for what could well be a major design fubar plus a 'maintenance-free' insult making the rest of the rig maybe intentionally prematurely unusable.

 

[flewism]

My subject HST is a 618-0427B, I don't know how that is known in the trade jargon.

It is a MTD transaxle

https://www.lawnmowerpartsworld.com...ckR6KXfDkpzQxtE1vpscvbB1o5TgKC5hoCAN8QAvD_BwE

 

[Rock Crawler]

It is a MTD transaxle

https://www.lawnmowerpartsworld.com...ckR6KXfDkpzQxtE1vpscvbB1o5TgKC5hoCAN8QAvD_BwE

If that is the rear axle in the used tractor that you are looking to buy.... Run! Do not give $800 for a used tractor with that POS in it.

For $800 you can find a pretty dang decent garden tractor with a K66 or G730. That is not a tractor that you want to own.

 

[fitterski]

If that is the rear axle in the used tractor that you are looking to buy.... Run! Do not give $800 for a used tractor with that POS in it.

For $800 you can find a pretty dang decent garden tractor with a K66 or G730. That is not a tractor that you want to own.

hehe, I think it's the MTD label of the one I do own....

 

[Rock Crawler]

hehe, I think it's the MTD label of the one I do own....

If that is the case... Then I understand why it met it's demise at sub-300 hours. That's about equal to the rear axle in a 12V Barbie Jeep

 

[fitterski]

If that is the case... Then I understand why it met it's demise at sub-300 hours. That's about equal to the rear axle in a 12V Barbie Jeep

you mean like we used to call the BA-146 the Fisher-Price Galaxy

 

[sd455dan]

hehe, I think it's the MTD label of the one I do own....

So the subject trans of this thread is a $ 300 MTD transaxle? Not a tuff Torque K46?

Seems like You can just get the new transaxle for another 300 hours So $1 an hour run time other than R&R on a $3500 mower Could be worse No?