Toro Timemaster 30 transmission question

doanster

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does the transmission drive both rear wheels equally or is the right rear wheel the dominant drive wheel?
Reason - mow a lot of steep banks with mower and when the right rear wheel becomes the top wheel going horizontally or when trying to go strait up a bank - the right rear wheel is spinning away and the left rear appears to be doing nothing. Is that suppose to be the case?

any help appreciated

rick
 

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Both wheels should be driving with equal force. Post your model and serial number so we know which unit you are talking about. How old is the unit?
 

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sorry for taking so long to reply - life gets in the way sometimes
Had my blade brake cable break the other day - just fixed that.

anyway model# is 20199
serial # is 314009075

look forward to your response
thanks

rick
 

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Block up the back end and remove both wheels and check the gears on both the axles and wheels. You may have a gear which is worn or broken on the non driving wheel. Let me know what you find.
 

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Looks like these Timemasters use a bigger version of the same cheap plastic wheels with ridiculous plastic gears that grind down to nothing on the normal Personal Pace.

Sorry to say but it looks like the newer residential Toro stuff from about 2008 and newer is inferior to their older stuff!

Perhaps not their commercial products, but yeah, my Father has a 2009 Personal Pace and has gone through three sets of wheels (mainly due to the worthless plastic gears) since then!
 

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sorry for taking so long to reply - life gets in the way sometimes
Had my blade brake cable break the other day - just fixed that.

anyway model# is 20199
serial # is 314009075

look forward to your response
thanks

rick

As far as I am aware, both wheels should turn.
Looking at all of the TimeMaster 30" parts catalogs in a cronological manner, you will see that
as far as the transmission is concerned, Toro have made 4 modifications over the years.

Serial Numbers 312000001 -> had trans 120-5211
Serial Numbers 313000001 -> had trans 127-0656
Serial Numbers 314000001 -> had trans 130-2388
Serial Numbers 314200001 -> (315 & 316000001-) have trans 130-6670 (But please keep reading!)
Serial Numbers 400000000 -> has trans 131-9665

So it appears your machine has the third generation transmission (as far as part numbering is concerned), and that transmission
has been superseded by 130-6670.... but we are not finished....

To make things even more interesting, if you go do a Google search on "Toro 130-6670" a slew of parts houses
are in the result. Now looking at those parts houses, you find that on some of them 130-6670 is now REPLACED by
part 131-9665 a new an mysterious 4th generation of the TimeMaster transmission kit! (as of this writing 7/30/2018).
It looks like Toro have changed the overall model number of the TimeMaster from 20199 to 21199
and then likewise the serial numbers start with 400000000 on the 21199. The major change is the motor.

At present there are essentially 10 different part number catalogs for the 30" TimeMaster recoil start.
So this implies that either

a) Toro have modified parts and their design/kitting/packaging to warrant such as parts change

or

b) Toro have changed part numbers or kit numbers but some parts are actually the same or are evolving and improving

probably a bit of both.
 
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