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Hello everyone. I've been coming to this site for answers to a lot of my questions about Cub Cadet's and I've been able to find all of them up to this point, so I thought it was time that I joined the site. I started collecting older mowers about 4 years ago. Started with a 1971 Cub Cadet 128, then a 1968 Wheel Horse Commando 8 and my latest is a 1970 Cub Cadet 127. I'm doing a complete rebuild to the 127 and I'm putting it back together right now. I took the hydrostatic transmission apart just to make sure everything was good and clean. I put it back together and it's really hard to turn now (can't turn it by hand but I can when I put a phillips in the roll pin hole in the shaft. I've had it apart 3 times and everything looks right. Are they supposed to be that hard to turn? Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Welcome to OCC...........:Welcome2:

When putting the Hydro back together, did you lubricate all moving parts ??

:bigthink:

Yes. I coated everything with hydraulic fluid.

Sounds like something not put back together right, and some binding is occurring.

:bigthink:

Welcome to the club. Somethin, not together right. After you do a couple, it gets better.

Don't know if it will help you, but here is link to Service Manual....
https://media.toro.com/servicemanuals/sd_15svc.pdf

Ironman , great manual to have for the Hydro people.

Yae, thanks for posting the manual. I've been using the 127 service manual but the one you posted definitely has some good info in it. I guess I'll take it apart again tonight when I get home. Thanks for all the info.

Hello everyone. Sorry I didn't post sooner. Good and bad news. I took the trans back apart and put it back together and no binding up. The only bad news is that I have no idea what I did differently. I'm adding some photos as well.

First photo is when I bought it from the scrap yard (150.00). Second photo is after a little work and cleaning up. Last one is where I'm at now in the rebuild.