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Old 11-05-2011, 10:32 PM
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Cub Cadet 1215!! Picked one up at an auction for $100.00 yesterday and brought it home to fix it up and turn it around for other toys... Go to move it around after getting the B/S 12hp started I end up with a shift lever in my hand and only have reverse now...!!!

The rear tires on this thing are about as big as my Super fronts and a 38" deck...ugggg

Were these throw a ways for MTD???? Oh but the lights work!!
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Old 11-16-2011, 08:15 PM
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Thing is running great mow great with a very high deck speed...I fab'd a shifter linkage from looking at the partstree site and it gets you in gear.....

And the lights still work!!!
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Old 11-16-2011, 08:44 PM
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The dealer dad worked for sold quite a few Cadets of this style. I think they only sold the 1015, 1315 and 1320. They had a theory to pick what they thought was the best of the line-up and sell those only. It helped a lot with being able to keep repair parts on the shelf---less inventory required. For the most part those were good mowers. They are definetly built better than the junk Cadet sells at the big box stores today. If I remember right the 1320 was a hydro with the shifter in the right fender. I liked it better there than in the dash like the big tractors. I remeber one guy they sold a 1015 to that drove everyone crazy. He wanted everything perfect about that mower. He must have called to complain every 2 days. If it backfired, if he saw a chip in the paint, if the breather on the engine seemed to smoke too much, whatever. He insisted on greasing it everytime he used it. At the time Cadet was using a tapered drive-in grease fitting in the front wheels. The darn things wouldn't stay in. When the guys at the dealership realized why they installed some IH (they were a tractor dealer as well) straight drive in fittings and the problem was solved. The next time the Cadet sales rep came by he was given the IH part # for those fittings.
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Old 11-16-2011, 10:20 PM
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Some came with MV engs. We just rebuilt a tranny for a guy on another forum for his grandson. The engs will out last the unit. We have a lady, 82, that has a 1320 hydro. Twice a year she has us pick it up and check it out. I told he that her drive belt needed replaced, she said to do it, the mower will out last her. OH MY what do you say in responce to that! Shes a great customer, wish we had 100 more just like her. Her 1320 look in show room condition, no a chip anywhere on the machine, a little on the deck.
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Old 11-16-2011, 11:32 PM
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Nice 1215, you got there.
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I was given a 1215 , that has a 12.5 HP motor . and we used the motor in another cub . Then i let the kid tear it apart for other parts . So mine is in a pile for parts .
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Old 11-17-2011, 07:52 AM
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Dooh....This has the 12hp B/S in it also.....with a CHROME aircleaner cover....That helps somehow right???? lol
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The Cub that got me started was a 1420 ,I did a trade with a guy.The Cub for a snowblower I had picked up off C/L cheap.It ran great but would not move,I did some research online and found they stripped a gear that connected the hydro to the trans.I think was about an eight dollar part and it was up and mowing.It was not a bad unit for what it was,a lawn tractor not a garden tractor .

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Old 11-18-2011, 06:52 AM
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Yep

I think thats a comen problem, or the weak link as to tear that up and not something worse. We do a few of them a year.
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Old 11-18-2011, 02:48 PM
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Thumbs up hydro trany

the torqe bracket,that hooks the trany to the frame brakes, and then it won't go forward, but slow,but reverse is ok. i havr 2 i fixed with a piece of chain .
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I think thats a comen problem, or the weak link as to tear that up and not something worse. We do a few of them a year.
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