1998 Bolens Mtd Hydrostatic transmission removal

I did a few too many wheelies I guess I heard a loud pop, or crack noise after a two ft high wheely while mowing the lawn. After driving around mowing the lawn starting & stopping was making a grinding noise, I knew I broke a ring gear ! or pinon. After removal I found dirty fluid, metal shavings, missing tooth on the ring gear and damaged spider gears - Wow! remember this is a stock riding mower ! When getting serviced last year one guy said he never seen a mower run so hard - All I can say is thanks! :)
Now I repair my own mower - as you see! Also I do a partial disassembly till I get my parts "still waiting" I'm changing a bunch of parts spider gears, ring gear, differential assembly, grease, hydraulic fluid, new filter, mayby pinon "not sure yet"
My gears all got chewed up - oh and maybe a new drivebelt, and brakes I'm also sanding the mower down - the dents, dings, scratches did not look good- updates later.
Thanks for watching

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• 1998
• Bolens
• Mtd
• riding
• mower
• 42
• B&S
• Briggs
• and
• Stratton
• Vanguard
• Hydro
• Hydrostatic
• removal
• disassembly
• ring
• gear
• broken

[switch55]

I was wondering as you had that all apart, in the linkage, did you have to make adjustments to get the forward and reverse speeds true? Mine in the last few weeks has slowed down in forward down to 3 mph and gone up to 10 mph in reverse. It would be a great help to me if you have any suggestions.

Thanks

-Jess

[photographermatt]

@switch55 No adjustment, but check fluid in the Hydro. transmission if its low or empty it will run slow - check underside for binding lineage, tree branches can sometimes make there ways into places and cause havoc.

-use jack stands, be safe-

**DO AT YOUR OWN RISK**

[windoes98se]

weld a bead where the missing tooth is and file it in to tooth shape ,lol thats what i wood do

[photographermatt]

@windoes98se Thanks, good idea

[photographermatt]

thanks -

love your channel pic

[photographermatt]

Yeah - videos kinda long

I probably should have made this a 2 part video

[HarleyDavidsonRockz]

Cool.

[V8Mike93]

5 hours to long for me lol