Outdoor Power Equipment (Lawn Mowers, Snow Blowers, Chain Saws and more) Discussions

FWIW, I bought my 1st 2 stager - Honda unit - without ever demoing a unit that had Hydrostatic Transmission.
Just short of the fact that it's variable infinite speed, can anyone just give me a laymens primer on the benefits of a Hydrostatic Transmission ?


BTW, how often if any do you do a OCI on the hydro transmission.

I was just surprised how much ~harder~ is is to move when not engadged as opposed to ~regular~ geared transmission.
I was at the local orange borg last night and wheeled the Organge buckets around and they wheel so much with ease...

aa335 wrote:

Actually you should be able to pull the e-brake to drift on an AWD car to drifty with no problem. You can see Ken Brock doing it in his videos. But You pull it just enough and then let it go.

I'd say the hydrostatic is similar to a cars automatic transmission. How fast do you want to be going forward and then jam it into reverse? On my 928TAS I came to a stop and then reversed it. I think reversing it while moving would be a bad idea.

Steve_Cebu wrote:
I don't know what his car is set up is like, but I wouldn't do it on a normal car.  When you pull the e-brake, all the torque from the rear wheels goes to the front wheels, that sounds like driveline shock to me.

AA...going to button her back up in a hrs or 2.
Any more pics you want..

Yeah, how about pics of the blower / impeller and what do you need to take off to free it from the shaft>

It's easy as taking candy from a child....

Steps 1 and 2. Once you look at it in person you will understand.
Remove the support bracket.
Remove the Blower Shear Bolt.

Ah, yes, very easy.  Just looked up the parts diagram.

Actually, I tried taking candy from my one year old boy, wasn't as easy as I thought.  He put up a good fight.  I can pull him along the wood floor but he wouldn't let go of the candy. 

aa335 wrote:

If you are on dirt or even pavement you can yank the e-brake to start you into the turn. Many AWD cars don't like to drift. It sure doesn't hurt Subaru's but might wear the brakes faster but yeah you have to let off the gas when you do it. We have RallyX events here and you'll see quite a few of them doing that. The FWD's lke to rotate if you use a bit of brake.

Steve_Cebu wrote:

Is there a difference in this behavior between a front wheel and rear wheel drive biased AWD car? I have a '07 G35X with the ATTESA-ETS system that seems quite drift-able if pushed but I wonder if that is the case since it is effectively a RWD car most of the time aside from slipping conditions and starts up to about 12MPH?

snowmachine wrote:

You won't be drifting at 12 mph. Sliding but not drifting. FWD will drift on dirt quite nicely. Here in NH we have one of the largest Rally schools in the USA and they start you out with FWD cars. FWD will handle differently than RWD versus AWD. The dynamics are completely different. For example when the Japanese drift racers were trying to get a stock Miata to drift, it just did not want to go until they used the e-brake to get it to rotate. We do have Ice racing up here if it gets cold enough so I'm looking forward to doing that. It's like RallyX/AutoX on ice. Your car is similar to the BMW 335 which has a similar system. No idea how well they drift. In NH it's hard to buy a RWD only BMW since we get a fair amount of snow. For AWD I'd get a Subaru like my old WRX. But Subies tend to push rather than rotate especially on pavement. If the driver is good you can drift anything. That's what Team O'Neil will tell you.

 http://team-oneil.com/

Steve_Cebu wrote:

Is pushing considered understeer?