Glad to see a person that cleans things befor they tear them down

It's 2022, I randonmly clicked on this repair video as guidance and immediately found the answer to one of my problems!
Big ups, great work. Can't thank you enough!

You've given me the confidence to tackle my transmission issue. I'm pretty sure it's the forward/reverse selector, ( it went " K' Ching" and I lost all momentum. At least you've given me a start. Thanks for your good work, I'm actually excited by the prospect of major surgery on this machine. Cheers!

Edit/Correction:  The brass bearings on the FNR/Drive shaft gears has to be sitting in a way to receive the upper casing.
Adjusted this slightly and now it's clamped together very tightly and can easily spin the drive shaft with my fingers.  Win, Thanks brother.

Just got mine put back together, using the SS00 grease.
Gears spin nicely when it's loose but with upper and lower casing tight it's quite difficult.
Think I need to remove one of the washers from the main drive/pulley shaft.
I added an extra one because it was a bit slack but maybe that slack is required.

Exactly my problem on my troy bilt. Thanks for the detailed video.

Excellent...looks like the same problem we are having. Gonna try to fix ourselves. Thanks!

A very old parts owner passed, new owners put 00 grease on misc junk for 1.00 a quart, I bought it all for 46 bucks, sold / used 6 and broke even 😊😊😊

a good job done and clean excellent  thanks 😊

Also a problem with mtd mowers (that I had with mine at least) the mower was approx 10 yrs old at the time... my friend gave it to me because he (and a so called professional mower repairman) had been unable to find the problem.
It was being extremely difficult to select a gear and sometimes impossible to select forward or reverse occasionally you could get it into get by rocking the mower fore and aft but it would slip out often.
After recieving the mower I discovered the problem within a few minutes... the lip of the chintzy sheet metal that might be called the "frame" was rusted and
broken free on the one side where the axle/diff/trans meets the frame... so it was just flapping in the breeze shifting about when torque was applied to the axle. We welded a tiny flat piece of metal with some holes drilled in it to reinforce the existing mounting spot and it was good as new.

dude you just saved me time and trouble thanks for the video and all the part numbers i will be taking mine apart soon to see whats going on with it

I have a vintage cub cadet with the same transaxle - the right side axle came out and I had to break down the differential - thanks for sharing re; lubricant and rebuilding tips.

You just saved me from buying another lawn tractor.  Thank you much. 👍🏽

Frickin' awesome! Great job! I have the same issue...now I feel comfortable with getting mine working again. I'm tired of holding the gear shifter in place and trying to turn.

I flip the gears most of the time and it works great, most people don’t use reverse very much and it saves them 90.00 bucks on old mower

You are my hero! That safed a lot of money! Thank you

Thank you my MTD is about to get a new lease on life now!

Part numbers would be great and were you got them .

Great video! Appreciate the part numbers in description as well. Just pulled my first one apart yesterday and noticed the damage to the bevel gear.

These beat tuff torque axle in every way and are the Best Buy period
People with those fluid drive trans axles are spreading big bucks
MTD unit is the simplest and easier to maintain

Mine finally went out last year on my 25 year old yard machine. Replaced the differential bevel gears, collar clutch, and fork assembly. It's still running strong, should be good for another 15 years. It will usually have a slight bucking motion that will subside if you hold the forward gear selector down really hard when it's starting to go bad. If you're short on money you can also just flip the collar clutch, that will put the bad collar clutch side, which is usually always on the forward gear, and moves it to the reverse gear side. It will buy you a year or so of having a working forward gear but no reverse.