[cdlong]

Mowed with this tractor yesterday. Started out ok, still had the movement of the shifter, 1" before forward movement and 1&1/4" before rearward movement. Sometimes just a small movement of the shifter resulted in slow movement of the tractor, then without moving the shifter, fast speed. As the mowing continued, it was taking more movement of the shifter to climb grades. Sometime it seemed as if the hydro was in forward and reverse at the same time. I could feel the tractor fighting it's self. The engine would also start to lug down. I would disengage the pto, apply the brakes and sometimes it would come back to normal operating. Several times I had to disengage the pto and place shifter all the way forward, drive a few feet and tractor would operate normally. I have ordered new springs and pins for the trunion and will swap out the auto relief valves for manual valves and see what happens.