Originally Posted by ZebRuaj
I think a lot of the bad experiences with the personal pace system is 1) too slow/fast - cable adjustment needed 2) can be hard pulling the mower back - cable adjustment again 3) it not working - the regular recyclers have plastic drive gears in the drive wheels. The teeth strip out over time. You can replace the wheels as needed, buy the plastic gear itself and DIY the repair, or swap to the SR4 gear set
Yup, exactly. I maintain/fix a lot of mowers and I've never seen a personal pace transmission fail except for the Timemasters. Two of them had actual transmission failures and one was definitely used commercially and was already on it's second engine. All of the other issues were fixed with cable adjustments or a new belt.
Mower self-propel units are pretty simple to begin with and rarely completely fail unless abused. Most of the time the deck rots out before the engine or drive breaks.