I went to use the mower last week that Peter let me have after last year's flood, and with this year's event that makes three times (at least) that this transmission has been underwater, and sadly it didn't work.
It's a hydrostatic unit and despite it being claimed that they're unserviceable I figured I may as well open it up and have a look. I didn't really see anything amiss, just some murky oil which was only to be expected, but I suspected the filter screen at the bottom centre of this piccie was clogged, naturally I had to remove the pump engine in order to simply unclip the filter but my time is worth nothing so I did that and cleaned it.
The screen was rather clogged when I finally could see it, so I just bolted things back together and happily the mower which needs a name, hmmm Lazarus might do it. is now functioning again.
The bad is because it's a USA things they use weird sized fitting so you have to dust off your imperial sockets. I do have some respect for these hydrostatic units now as it's quite a brilliant design.
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