Thank you , about to do my first hydro and oil service on my 2100z, very helpful !

I’ll take 3 of those new tools, Just to support your awesomeness engineering skills Jay 🤜🤛 WARRIOR CLASS 💪😎✌️

Great job bro! I had to do the exact same for my toro

You’re so smart doing your own maintenance, you remind me of my son. He also does the maintenance on my car.

There you have it . Look out 2023 here you come lol . Thinking about in a couple weeks start bringing home my mowers

Man are exactly the same. I have the same thoughts as everyone else in the comments. I have no clue why they made them out of plastic. I also have no clue why they didn't just put disposable filters instead of these internal filters. You can argue something like these are better protected but I really think it is about saving money for Hydro Gear by discouraging people from doing it on their own. If you look on Hydro Gears smaller transaxles they all have disposable filters and so much easier to deal with.

The things we have to come up with in this business! Plastic😖Great hack brother💯💪🏾

That was a very informative video, & very well done. I watched because my grandson is 15 & thinking bout getting that mower & I wannabe able to help him service it. Thanks for sharing. Ted.

They should have made them caps out of metal of some kind. That plastic gets brittle from the heat of the oil. Glad you got the old one off. Have a good week J! See ya!

When I changed mine I got concerned because it did not move right away ,soon realized it had air in the lines .,but after about 30 seconds it worked the air out . never had anymore problems with it .

would you know if the aluminum caps from the ZT-5400 fit the ZT-4400, to replace those plastic ones?

I would have found the next smaller 6 point socket (switch between metric and sae) and tried to hammer it on and then remove it.

Thank you for sharing 😊

Can you use synthetic? They need a metal cap for those. I guess I need to to remember when doing mine soon

👍🏼#29 Great video about the Ryobi impact. Or maybe that's just the way I saw it. BTW You look younger now than you did in videos a year ago. How's that possible?

I just got the axel on the poulan xt greased today did this to the craftsman gt and the John deere lt mowers need to get the Hydro oil in the gt hydro transmission

Those massive ZT-4400’s make my little ZT-2800’s look so tiny. Same process to change the oil except I have regular style oil filters. That sucks about the plastic filter caps. Every time you change the oil looks like a good idea just to change the caps as well. Wonder if the ZT-5400 metal caps would fit the 4400 model?

I think they have a torque spec on plastic cap if I remember correctly

One of my hydro gears will not disengage for the purge process. Is there another way? I dried driving it a little and it doesn’t seem any different than the one I did purge. Will it purge eventually on its own? It seems to run fine.

Gravely runs the same thing, yeah they are a pain in the but. I have that same jack, my motorcycle sits on it all winter and then the mowers all summer.

Plastic is industry standard nowadays. Cars have plastic radiators and some have plastic oil pans, and plastic intake manifolds..

How do guys keep their mowers so clean and unused looking!

I think I would try either Fluid Film or even anti-seize on the new caps. Gotta be better than going through all that. Some of these companies are being penny wise and dollar foolish.

Tool 2.0 will have a longer shaft with a 12"-16" T-handle welded on the end.😉

Do you pressure wash the deck?

Make sure you use a 6 point socket instead of a 12 point...still may strip, but better shot at NOT with the 6

The 3200s on my Ferris have fill ports on the top, you don't fill them via the expansion tanks.

i gotta do my 2100z 1000 hour hydro fluid. boy it doesn't look fun and im tempted to just drop it off at my dealer

you want oil with high zinc not auto oil

They use them on Toyota cars as well. Dumb ass design