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Originally Posted by JSH
The John Deere riders you can get at Home Depot and other big box stores had a design life of 250 hours. Deere calculated that to be 10 years. Because their design life was only 250 hours they had us remove the drain plugs from their version of the transaxle because their manual said the transaxle had "lifetime" oil and never needed to be changed and than saved them 25 cents per vehicle.
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I'll have to see if my dad's Craftsman hydrostatic drive oil can be changed. I suppose one could drill and tap to add their own plug.
My dad is a fixer, so if the frame started cracking, he'd get the welder out.