Thanks for the video. I am that 80 year old fart you were referring to in your video. I could not push the handle back for reverse on my John Deere D105. When I saw your video a light bulb lit up in my brain. I got a long screw driver and my heavy duty blower and took out tons of debris a well as those needle balls from the transmission area. I did this without taking anything apart. The handle now moves smoothly  in all direction. Brother, you saved a retired old man alot of money. I sent you some cash so that you can get a cup of coffee on me! Greatly appreciate your generosity, God Bless you!

Gotta love those plastic transmissions open to the air so you can fill it with grass and have problems

Tom to start a dedicated John deere repair shop! He has impressed John deere so much they have decided to change the branding to Tom deere running off a Doby straton engine. 😅

I absolutely loved this video!! The best thing about the channel is that I can learn and it's free! God has blessed you with quite a gift brother. Great video. I cut 20 lawns while listening to this 🤣🤣👊💯

I just bought one exactly like this that's been kept in a building out of the rain and looks new. It's stuck in reverse. The owner said he bought it new about 4 years ago. He's a great neighbor, but not mechanically inclined. He just bought a new Zero turn and told me he'd take a hundred bucks for it. I hope and pray that trash is just built up around the top of the trans and pulley's like this one was. I'll feel like Christmas came early this year. Great video.

We were just talking about this repair,I did one early this year,My first ever,now I learned the easy way.Thanks.

Little shop of horrors. LOL, I like that.

🇨🇦 That’s some hard work, for pinecones and shit  Good job. 😊 HEAT GUN OR HAIRDRYER really works well for those plastic caps.

Toooom Doooobyyyy! Nice work, Tom! I switched out a trans on an MTD Yard Machine a number of years back. First I ever did. Had a blast! Thanks for sharing this fun video! God bless.

Thanks! I am that 80 year old retired old man you were referrring to in your video. I could not place handle in reverse. I saw all the debris you cleaned out and a light bulb lit up in my head. All I did was use a long screw driver and a heavy duty blower and did the cleaning without removing anything! The handle now goes in reverse and is smooth in all directions. Brother you saved me alot of money. God Bless you!!

It amazes me how this could be designed to fail like this with it being open to air but not being easily cleaned.  I believe I have this same problem with my Husqvarna.

Brother thank you!! Helped me fix my 100 series. Same exact issue. Appreciate what you do! 👊

Ever herd of a shopvac? Great video.
Thank you

This video is great and very informative. With all the work you showed, knowing these K46 transmission are not serviceable.  It is probably a great idea to service the transmission by dropping the oil and filling it with 5w50 oil.

Nice work tom . Glad it was just needed to be cleaned from the debris 😊

loving the videos thanks i appreciate them ,
God bless and you are in our prayers daily

I have a Craftsman 42 inch tractor with one of those plastic transmissions. After about 8 years of cutting my lawn, and the neighbors front yard, I noticed it was getting hard to shift. I took out the battery and battery box to see what was going on, and sure enough, the top of the transmission was covered with millions of pieces of grass clippings. I thought I could just take a vacuum and suck out the dead grass in a minute or two, and soon be finished. Nope. The grass was packed down in between the plastic ribs molded into the transmission so tightly, that the vacuum couldn't get much of it out. It was as if it had been glued down in there. I had to spend at least 45 minutes breaking up the chunks with a screwdriver and sucking out the pieces with the vacuum. As fate would have it, there is just enough stuff in the way that getting the vacuum hose all the way down into the fins is impossible. Trust me, it can't be done. Unless you take the transmission out, you need to dig the grass out with something metal to get the vacuum hose close enough to suck the grass chunks out.
How that grass gets up inside there and packs that hard is amazing, but it does. That was one time I missed my 240 volt air compressor that Hurricane Katrina ruined.
After all of that cleaning ordeal, I thought that I could forget about it for years, but no such luck. Last year it started acting up again. This time I caught it early, so breaking the grass loose was a lot easier. For those transmissions, cleaning the top is a regular maintenance item. Thankfully, that expensive short drive belt on them lasts for decades in residential use.
When changing the grease seals on those transmissions, you want to go around the grease seals with gasket sealer, because even the new ones have a tendency to leak around the outer edge that goes into the transmission. Those transmissions are packed full of thick grease, so if a little oil is lost, you can ignore it. Just change the axle seals and forget about it.

Watched your video several times and finally got my crusty D105 back in running condition thank you

Amazing job...............

Thanks! Great videos Tom especially the intro’s! More Stihl weed eater repairs🥳😂👊🏻