Recent content by Elkins45

If your deck and transmission are still in good shape it makes sense to replace the engine. Even if you only get a few more years out of them that gives you a newish engine to swap into a cheap used mower. There’s almost always a decent mower with a blown engine available for next to nothing on...

I need to invest in a video camera so I can have a record of which parts fall off of which others when I pop it open.

Agreed. I wouldn’t have known if the Sears parts site didn’t have both chains in the parts list.

The chain for the tines is missing (and mislabeled) from the drawing but it’s in the parts list. Part #29 (102134X) in the parts list is the tilling chain and part #50 (106147X) is the ground drive chain. In the diagram #29 is shown as the sprocket the tilling chain turns. On the Craftsman parts...

The diagram and a couple of videos I watched on YouTube both show two separate chains, one for the tines, and one for the wheel drive. It might still be a stripped gear, but it could also be the drive chain. In a perfect world it would be something cheap and easy like a woodruff key.

That thing appears to be working just fine in my unit because I can freely move it between positions. When I move it all the way it does engage the tines, and it does disengage them when in all the other positions. Whatever is broken inside my unit is only effecting the ground drive portion of...

LOL :) I asked about the shifter because Star Tech said it was NLA. All my Craftsman stuff was bought at about the same time and it’s all breaking at about the same time. I had to replace the sump gasket in my riding mower in the fall so I’m getting used to taking things apart.

Which part are you referring to as the shifter?

Which part is the shifter? Is it something that could be fabricated?

According to the parts diagram there are two chains. One (still working) #29 drives the tines and another #50 drives the wheels. Thanks for the link to the manual. That’s a nicer parts diagram than the one I was looking at. I figure it won’t cost me anything to open it up, and I can’t make it...

I have a Craftsman 917.294482 17” rear tine tiller. I understand it was actually made by Husqvarna. I went to till up a patch for some spring flowers and the transmission broke. The belt is fine and the tines will spin but it won’t move either in F or R. I looked at the Craftsman parts diagram...