Hi Michael, I have an MTD mower too with transmatic transmission. I was
puzzled by you saying it was so lossy so I'm glad you've resolved it.
Well maintained and adjusted I think it should actually be more efficient
than the hydrostatic versions. The last one I saw of those even had a
substantial
I updated http://www.evalbum.com/4841 with more information. Since
I've had offline queries about my project, I thought I'd send an
update for the records for the next person researching a conversion of
this sort.
I had mentioned earlier that the "transmatic" belt-and-pulley CVT was
very lossy, ea