Ben, go to the thread from Jan 28 "New Ariens 11528 Suffering From Lack of Traction". Check post #17 from that thread. It is from the engineer from Ariens that posts here. He details how to adjust your shift linkage
. Looks like it will take about 5 minutes.
Good luck,
Marc
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