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Well, it's not a turf, so that's good. Your shift arm is bent, it's supposed to be straight there. I don't know how much that's hurting you, what you have to do is unhook the linkage and see if you have forward and reverse when you change them by hand, then you can worry about adjusting the linkage. If you don't have forward and reverse you'll have to pull it out and split the case. If you get that far, don't take the side cases off where the axle shafts come out. That't the brakes and a whole different ballgame. I think what you are calling low and high gear is the diff lock lever. Down,the rear axle is locked so both sides pull, up is normal with just one side pulling. The transaxle has spyder gears in it so only one side pulls on normal operation so you don't tear your lawn up going around corners.
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Ok, thanks. I have the shift linkage disconnected and had hoped to try shifting it by hand but.....I had a flat on the front. Went and bought a tube and put it in but the dang stem came right out of the tube when I blew it up. So it sits on the jack. I may try to shift it by hand and see if it wants to move forward even though I will have the jack under till I get another tube tomorrow.
I will keep you posted. Thanks again.
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Ok, I tried it even though it had a jack under it. When I put it in reverse the clutch locks up and it is ready to go. When I put it in forward the clutch just spins and spins and spins.
I guess next is pulling it out. Not sure where to start with that but I guess I will just have to figure it out.
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OK, I finally had some time to look at this thing. I managed to figure out how to pull both rear axles and hub assemblies. I got those out last night and hope in the next day or two to pull the trans-axle and set her on my bench, open her up, and see what I see.
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Ok, I got the tranny out. I put it on my bench and split her in half.
Gatoraider was spot on with his guess (educated I think)  . The shift arm pin was broken off. All looks really good inside other than that.
I think that is about a $30 part so I will get a new one and some new seals and put her back together.
I will try to get some pics and post them tomorrow if any one wants to see them.
Gatoraider, thanks for the advice on this.
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Shift shaft with broken pin .
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Inside for those who have never seen it.
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Purple, you can grind some of that weld off the back of that arm and weld that pin back on from the rear and save yourself 80 bucks. I do it all the time.
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Purple, you can grind some of that weld off the back of that arm and weld that pin back on from the rear and save yourself 80 bucks. I do it all the time.
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Thanks, I actually thought about that but the pin is a bit chewed up (not seen in picture)so I elected to just get a new one. I ordered the shift shaft direct from Tuff Torq for ~$30.
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Well, I had a few minutes after mowing the yard last night to put the new shift shaft in. I am pretty good at it now. I put it in then remembered I had ordered a seal kit so I took it back out. Then I put it in and put the new input shaft seal in. Put the input shaft back in and didn't put the spacer in, pulled it all out, put the spacer and input shaft back in, and the dang tension spring in the seal came out. Pulled the input shaft and put the spring back in. Put input shaft back in and spring came out through the other side (outside). Removed input shaft again. Long story short, finally got it.
This may sound easy but is not. You have to remove the chain every time to do this and to remove the chain, you have to hold your mouth just right.
I still have to put new seals in the axle shaft housings yet but may not get to that till next week. I have to go out of town for a few days.
So far it has been fun though. Kudo's to Tuff Torq for very fast service.
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I put the seal in last night and put the two halves aback together. Used the shift shaft to put it in forward reverse and neutral and all was well except for forward. Still don't lock up in the forward position.
I will have to split it again and dig a little deeper. Must be something wrong around the input shaft and gears there. The gear must not be locking up when I put it in forward although it did before I put back together. Must have been enough slop to allow it to bite. Suspect something is stripped off there somewhere.
Gotta go out of town a few days so it will next week before I get a chance to split it again.
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