Hi all first time poster don’t spend a lot of time in forums
I have a cub cadet LTX 1042 that came with our farm mower seems to be in good shape used a couple of times about two years ago and while my Wife was mowing she threw the belt I went out to retrieve the mower and found it was smoking horribly from under the hood. I decided to put it in the barn and use my other mower.
Fast forward a couple years I decided a couple of days ago to have it hauled off and retrieved it from the barn, just for fun and after reading several post about the Kohler courage 20 I decided to try and start it. Much to my amazement it started right up and ran like a champ after looking at the valve cover I determined it was leaking and dropping a lot of oil on the muffler.
Being that the engine was not blown up as I originally thought I decided to resurrect it. Ordered all of the parts I felt it needed, oil filter air filter deck belt spark plug At Cetera. When we Retrieved it from the barn I pull the tranny override in order to push it.. I pulled off the deck and all of the other parts to inspect before replacement and ordered my parts. In trying to push it into my shop I found the rear wheels would not move.
Did a bunch of research before wasting peoples time and checked all the normal things with no results. If you jack the mower up the wheels turn one goes forward one goes back so I assume the brakes are not stuck I have fussed with the tranny override lever on under the mower to no avail.
Mower moves about 6 inches either direction and then stops it is not under power as engine is a part waiting for filters and valve cover gasket
can anyone enlighten me to what this might be I have read several posts about similar situations with no final outcome being that I seem to have a good running and looking mower I would like to keep it if possible as a back up the only thing I wondered is if it needs to be running because it is hydrostatic
Sorry for the long first post and I appreciate any input you might have
Cheers
I have a cub cadet LTX 1042 that came with our farm mower seems to be in good shape used a couple of times about two years ago and while my Wife was mowing she threw the belt I went out to retrieve the mower and found it was smoking horribly from under the hood. I decided to put it in the barn and use my other mower.
Fast forward a couple years I decided a couple of days ago to have it hauled off and retrieved it from the barn, just for fun and after reading several post about the Kohler courage 20 I decided to try and start it. Much to my amazement it started right up and ran like a champ after looking at the valve cover I determined it was leaking and dropping a lot of oil on the muffler.
Being that the engine was not blown up as I originally thought I decided to resurrect it. Ordered all of the parts I felt it needed, oil filter air filter deck belt spark plug At Cetera. When we Retrieved it from the barn I pull the tranny override in order to push it.. I pulled off the deck and all of the other parts to inspect before replacement and ordered my parts. In trying to push it into my shop I found the rear wheels would not move.
Did a bunch of research before wasting peoples time and checked all the normal things with no results. If you jack the mower up the wheels turn one goes forward one goes back so I assume the brakes are not stuck I have fussed with the tranny override lever on under the mower to no avail.
Mower moves about 6 inches either direction and then stops it is not under power as engine is a part waiting for filters and valve cover gasket
can anyone enlighten me to what this might be I have read several posts about similar situations with no final outcome being that I seem to have a good running and looking mower I would like to keep it if possible as a back up the only thing I wondered is if it needs to be running because it is hydrostatic
Sorry for the long first post and I appreciate any input you might have
Cheers