snapper rear engine lawn mower. model # 2681. 5th and 4th gear slow to a stop. 1st and 2nd are fine, now 3rd is starting to slow sometimes. a friend told me to grease something but im not sure what, or even if he knows what hes talking about.

scott brown, June 2007

I have a 4 year old snapper that is doing about the same thing, but it has migrated all the way to 1st gear. I removed the drive wheel that has the rubber ring on it and am going to replace it as soon as I can find one. a friend of mine told me that you can lower the flat surface wheel that this rubber wheel rides on about 1/4" and it will increase the pressure the drive wheel is pressing against. this is the flat wheel that runs directly off of the engine shatf. He told me it might be easier to remove the engine to move the disk down rather than try to fight the location the set screws are located in on the mower. It appears to me that the rubber ring that rides on that flat wheel is slipping and increasing the pressure may help... good luck

Joe in Texas, July 2007