I will get chastised for posting this, but those tractors used a "hydraulic drive", simply a fixed displacement gear pump and a gerotor-type motor, with a flow divider between them.
TOTALLY different and different acting, under the best of circumstances, than a REAL hydrostatic drive, as is/was common practice to use in garden tractors. Having owned two of them, I would never consider owning one again as a working tractor, but only as a museum piece to show the ill effects of making a product that deviates (unsuccessfully) from generally-accepted engineering practice.
Yeah, I know I'm being the bad guy here, but there HAS to be a reason no one else went down that path in with a production garden tractor.
(BTW, if you have never had the experience of driving one on a slope with a LAKE at the bottom, you have missed one of life's low-cost THRILLS!)
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