Well I met up with Fearlessfront and we locked the transaxle for my off-road Murray. We had a day full of engines, lawn mowers, welding, laughing and tools. Thanks again man! Fearlessfront's channel: / fearlessfront Thanks for watching!
instead of welding the gears to the axles, I just welded the for smaller gears together. just did a quick tack on them and took the big ring gear off to fully weld it all together.
I'd recommend using a anerobic sealer. I locked my diff the same way and killed it in 2 days. The pin busted. Luckily It didn't scatter apart, so I think I can weld the whole mess together, one thing that was a joy was with the anerobic , the cases split easily and cleaned off with some brakecleen and a rag. Maybe it was the 5 th gear donuts and burnouts that broke mine ;)
Yeah. It makes it harder to turn, but it just means that if you have really good grip on your front tires that you'll tear up some ground under you're inside rear wheel when you're turning.
ok thanks because I was just locking mine today and I was welding my axle shafts really hot but not that slow, had to grind off excess welding material that kept it from meshing right
hello, thanks for the video, I am writing to you from Italy, I have a problem with my lawn mower, with the forward gear if I am going downhill it picks up speed and you can hear a noise at the transmission (continuous beat), which it doesn't do if I go downhill in reverse. What can it depend on? Thanks Marc
It's the same exact thing, only you only have one gear ratio. The way an MTD changes speed is by a variable speed stack pulley (kinda like a snow mobile clutch) although, if you're gonna make an offroad mower, don't use an MTD, get something that has an actual 5 or 6 speed transaxle.
I re greased my transmition a few weeks ago but lost the 2 ball bearings that goes with the shifter. Il just be zoomin along and it will drop out of gear or the gear doesnt match up with the number on the shifter randomly. Is these problems caused from the balls?
Im a worthless welder and I was wondering if you might know if normal mechanic and exhausts places might would weld my transaxle up? also I have a Tecumseh peerless mst 206 and was wanting to know if that is a good and solid unit
Ummm put it together and see if when you shift the gears manually on the bench if the axles turn when you turn the pulley on top of the transaxle. Do this on the bench!
well,then check out your shifting mechanism, there should be 2 springs and bb's somewhere...fearless front has a video that explains it. look up "how to:lock a transaxle" and click on fearlessfronts video,he explains the little bb's
Haha no not really. Because you've now made it so that the inside wheel cannot turn slower around the circumference of a circle like spider gears are supposed to do. I've found that leaning over the outside wheel in a turn works the best.
today i took my tractor for a romp in the snow. I ended up getting stuck so i stopped and put it in reverse. As soon as i got to reverse i heard a bunch of grinding and now none of the gears work at all. What do i do?
