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its not gear box which fails its the bearings in the gear box , if the gear box was cleaned out once year all old grass and rubbish check the bearings and replace the oil in the gearbox they are fine , i have just replace them for £9 and change the oil in the gearbox , happy days
A dealer told me they are just a re badged Kaaz, anther told me they are a bit different. I believe the first. Nothing to get excited about.
I've followed dealers advice and they both get them taken in mid season to have rollers stripped, cleaned and greased. This mower has only done about 12months worth or mowing, surprised to be having gearbox related issues already.
Thanks Rich I'll drop it in with dealer and see what they say.
Briggsandscrapem - when I've got fed up and designed my own mower to cut in all conditions and drive perfectly I'll let you know! :)
Plenty of threads on this if you do a search.
Is it the gearbox, or the roller that's failing? All the similar machines have the same rollers, and they do wear out. One season is unusual, though.
The gearboxes don't fail themselves, it's the clutch. The advice is always to push the mower to speed before engaging drive, and I've never had a clutch fail in less than four years heavy use doing this.
Of all the pattern-machines, the Kubota has the revised gearbox. Apparently, it engages more cleanly, but I still think the massive torque of the Honda engine just rounds off the cogs. Think about it, 55 kilos of mower, and you engage drive from a standstill: the weakest point will take most of that impact, and the clutch/gearbox assembly is the weak point!
If I was after another Honda Pro-type, it would only be the Kubota. Aside from the new gearbox, the black bag is much smarter, and the colour lovely.
Is there any more info on the rumours that either Lawnflite were stopping supplying the various Kaaz/Asuka mowers, or the importer closed down?
The handles on the kubota are different to the Lawnflites etc and to engage the drive you pull the lever towards you. There is a clever bit of engineering which forces or snaps the drive into place which should negate the need to push them when engaging the drive.
Hope that made sense!
On my 536 the bearings in the gearbox were well and truly stuck to the degree that one could almost believe they were welded in. They were completely shot however. I did eventually get them out after much cursing. That experience persuaded me that replacing them once a year before they get seized in is the way forward. Not a procedure that the non mechanically minded person should attempt (IMO)
Sorry for the confusion I'm getting that shudder before it finally decides to shift forward. The guys know about the whole idea of pushing them first rather than trying to drive from stationary.
stuart .
the bearings in the gear box, knock out the bearing which leaves the housing in the shaft and after warm it up with some gas till it goes red hot and the housing just falls out .
Ref: Honda Pro - I believe that they did a recall to address gear / drive issues, not too sure on what year models but might be worth checking out.
Simon said:
That does sound clutch, not rollers. In my experience the rollers grind and fail, or the machine seems to pause sometimes. When it pauses, it hits you right in the lower-handle area! When the clutch goes it's that "clicking", or failure to get any drive.
Nick, whatever clever solution they've found, I still think that 5.5 Honda-BHP into a 55 kilo static machine, there has to be a serious impact. That will damage something, and it's only the clutch that is in between. Shaft-drive means there's no belt to absorb the torque.
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