Thinking of putting hydro from CraftsmanLT1000 into my ST/10 will this wok or not? Any help or advise would be great!
tranny question will it work?
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io say bad idea but that my opinion do you have pics of both?
i think one is vertical and the other horizontal i do not think it will work
i think one is vertical and the other horizontal i do not think it will work
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It wont work,the hydro is for a vertical shaft engine,the other is for a horizontal..--plus you'll be taking a giant step backwards..why remove a nice 8 speed hi-low geared tranny for a wimpy hydrostat that wont last a day pulling heavy loads or plowing??..
I say fix the LT1000 and use that for mowing and light duty use,and keep the other one intact for the heavy grunt work...
I say fix the LT1000 and use that for mowing and light duty use,and keep the other one intact for the heavy grunt work...
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I was thinking about cutting a slot in the right fender for it, maybe it would be too much of a hassel. I might just try to find a craftsman/sears person that might want the ST/10 and try to trade it for something else. Any one want it? It would probably be free!
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Why do you want to do the swap? It's a very rare day I wish I had a hydro, and that's usually just for deep brush mowing or tilling, neither of which an ST10 should try to do.
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I don't see how that's possible, unless the belt is waaaay too tight and you're snapping the end of the crank off.
What sort of failure are the engines having?
What sort of failure are the engines having?
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every engine keeps having carb problems. They all have the needle and float end up malfuntioning and flood the motor with gas and seize it up. The one on there now has seized twice with two different carbs and I even have a shut off valve on it.
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Don't think it could be the tranny. Try rebuilding your carb (esp the float needle gasket) and replacing your cut off switch (if it is old it may not be completely stopping the flow).
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How would a tranny swap help your carb problem ? I must be missing something ????
If you want to just mow, the light duty hydro should work fine. If you have to make new drive control linkages I would make it a foot control not fender mounted. I have a 98 LT1000 hydro and it is still going strong !
I have a '98 LT1000 hydro that has never worked right since about 1 year old. Sometimes it would not speed up. but all the time, struggle, to the point the hydro sounded really loaded up going up hills and such, and it was bought new. Of course the tractor had several things fail in a short time over 2 years, while being maintained. so it has been set out to pasture.
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gonna try to rebuild the carb and see what happens. I had just thought that if the engine was being worked to hard because of the tranny it might cause other engine problems. I'm just a tinkerer and still have alot to learn that's why I turn to you guys because you have experience. I don't mean for some of my post to sound dumb I'm just learning and trying to understand things better.
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