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Originally Posted by ejl6658

The rear differential is not real complicated inside and new and used parts are readily available to fix it. Do you hear clunking or grinding when you turn the rear wheels by hand? If so, time to split it apart and see what broke. You can download the 2000 series 2011 and after service manual here that describes removing and disassembling the rear differential.

https://www.ccpartsnmore.com/cub-cadet-service-manuals

There’s not a clunking sound but more like a clicking sound where 2 gears are touching but not locked. And that’s very quiet. For the most part it rolls very smooth with lil to no resistance. If the 4 bolts are sheared off at the ring gear inside the housing itlloks like it would be fairly simple to remove the axle and 14 bolts holding that side on. I would assume then there would be the fix to the ring gear. I’m going to search on the internet or you tube for videos and looks at the manual for procedure for disassembly. I’m more leaning now towards doing this myself. Worse case is it’s messed up bad enough to find a used unit. Or scrap the damn thing and use the engine to report my 1812 in the future. Which has 1700 hrs on her.