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Help - Need junk Sears lawn tractor
I have a Sears YTV-16 lawn tractor with a broken transaxle (4 gears
are stripped). I am looking for a used transaxle assembly. The part number is 917.101901X. Sears Parts Dept. says that is it "unavailable". Does anyone know what company made the transaxle for Sears? Please email me. TIA Chuck |
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Help - Need junk Sears lawn tractor
Chuck Jurgens wrote:
I have a Sears YTV-16 lawn tractor with a broken transaxle (4 gears are stripped). I am looking for a used transaxle assembly. The part number is 917.101901X. Sears Parts Dept. says that is it "unavailable". Does anyone know what company made the transaxle for Sears? Please email me. TIA Chuck you can probably get the parts at any good sized lawnmower repair shop, they dont thrown nothing away... the one i go to must have about 200 old lawmowers stacked up on each other and they use them for parts when needed.. i guess they do the same with tractor parts also.... or they can probably get the part for you.... |
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"Chuck Jurgens" wrote in message om... I have a Sears YTV-16 lawn tractor with a broken transaxle (4 gears are stripped). I am looking for a used transaxle assembly. The part number is 917.101901X. Sears Parts Dept. says that is it "unavailable". Does anyone know what company made the transaxle for Sears? Please email me. TIA Chuck Probably made by Peerless, a division of Tecumseh. Find a good small engine shop in your area, they will be able to cross reference the Sears model number to Peerless. Once you get the Peerless number it is just a matter of ordered the parts to repair it. I have rebuilt a few of these transmissions over the years, with the factory manual, it is not very hard to do. Lots of small pieces to keep track of!! Greg |
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" Help - Need junk Sears lawn tractor"
Looks like you already have one!! LOL, Sorry!! My apologies. I must say I stopped buying any products from Sears that had a motor many years ago. They don't stock/supply parts for very long. They want you to buy a new one I guess. I've had to toss jig saws, and fit older drills with new drill triggers (with custom jumpers). Sears was once an American Icon, now well....much less. MTD is a very large maker of many machines, Cub Cadet, Troy-Bilt, Yard-Man, Ryobi, Yard Machines and White Outdoor. I would not be surprised if make the Sear brand or perhaps they could tell you who makes that tranny. http://www.mtdproducts.com/company/index.jsp Best of luck, Jim |
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Help - Need junk Sears lawn tractor
look on the transaxal itself there should be a mod# stamped on it . if it
says foot (might be foote) they are gonzo and look around at local shops. if it says perrless parts should still be around. |
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"Dr. Doctor" wrote in message . ..
look on the transaxal itself there should be a mod# stamped on it . if it says foot (might be foote) they are gonzo and look around at local shops. if it says perrless parts should still be around. that tractor was made by roper. believe it or not they actually made their own transaxles for a while. go to www.oscar-wilson.com they are the largest supplier i know of sears parts. located in o'fallon missouri. Chip foote was bought by dana and a lot of parts are still available. |
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to chip I heard the when Dana bought foote the tooling / molds were lost/destroyed and that is the reason why parts for foote are hard to find.. I always wondered if I was told a line so that person could pass on doing their job.... did you hear anything like that??? |
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"Dr. Doctor" wrote in
: to chip I heard the when Dana bought foote the tooling / molds were lost/destroyed and that is the reason why parts for foote are hard to find.. I always wondered if I was told a line so that person could pass on doing their job.... did you hear anything like that??? Actually, the reason Foote trannies were so hard to find for a while is that there was a major fire in their manufacturing plant. Although they always had parts available, their production lines were down for about a year. But he may not have a Foote. He specifically stated he had a YTV-16. This is a VARIDRIVE tractor, and most of them had two forward / one reverse gear transaxles that were actually made by Roper, who was made most of Sears tractors (and the descendent company still does). Roper Corp. was bought in 1988 by General Electric in a bidding war with Whirlpool. (Ironic, since Whirlpool was once RCA-Whirlpool, and RCA was once and is again GE.) After the dust settled, they sold the lawn and garden equipment business to A.B. Electrolux of Sweden, makers of White- Westinghouse, Frigidaire, Husqvarna, Poulan, Weed Eater and many other brands. G.E. sold the Roper name rights to Whirlpool. They basically kept the gas kitchen ranges and range patents, maybe the industrial pumps, and looted the rest to pay the bill from the bidding war. (They paid over twice the per share value at the start.) The lawn and garden division became American Yard Products, then Frigidaire Home Products, and now Electrolux Home Products, all just new names from Sweden for the same old dog. Any dealer handling mower repairs for mass merchant machines should be able to order parts to repair this tranny. But a complete unit is probably not going to be found. Those Roper vari-drives were built well before the A.B.Electrolux take over, and are well beyond the average 10 year life span of mass merchandiser power equipment. Matt |
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Roper Corp. was bought in 1988 by General Electric in a bidding war with
Whirlpool. (Ironic, since Whirlpool was once RCA-Whirlpool, and RCA was once and is again GE.) After the dust settled, they sold the lawn and garden equipment business to A.B. Electrolux of Sweden, makers of White- Westinghouse, Frigidaire, Husqvarna, Poulan, Weed Eater and many other brands. G.E. sold the Roper name rights to Whirlpool. They basically kept the gas kitchen ranges and range patents, maybe the industrial pumps, and looted the rest to pay the bill from the bidding war. (They paid over twice the per share value at the start.) exactly. i just didn't feel like relaying the entire story of what we called rainbow manufacturing. because they came in so many colors over the years. the story and product line actually go deeper than that though. i never had a problem getting foote parts. we had a great distributer though. they had an enormous parts stock, and i was the only one for about 30-40 miles that would work on them. Chip |
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