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We have an old 2002 murray with a supposed bad transmission (we haven't taken a look at it, it was pronounced dead by the garden tractor repair god). We have now found a person nearby who would like to sell us 2 mowers of the Murray variety for parts. 1 is a Tecumseh Murray 12 hsp 5 gear transmission (the model rectangle is missing so no model number), and the other is a 1997 Murray model 7-38565x34 with a Briggs 12 hsp. Would either of these transmissions work in our 2002 Murray model 42813 6 spd 14 hsp? I appreciate any help you can give, cathy:rolleyes:

It is a matter of bolting up, measure the area between mounting bolts to see if it fits and then check diameter of driven pulley on transaxle. If pulley is wrong diameter you may be able to swap if center shaft is same.

I would double check the transaxle in the original tractor, failure is rare if not non-existant, if one of the wheel keys is sheard the mower won't move.

You will not find a resource to tell if the transaxles are interchangeable.
Don

Thank you for the information. Would you be more specific as to which failure rate is rare, transmission incompatibility, or ? Also, hubby took out some pulley that was ruined, we will try and replace that first before the transmission (although we will assume:rolleyes: that if it was the only problem the tractor repair guy would have fixed it).. thank you again, Cathy

Transaxle failure is rare, the lawn guy may not have wanted to spend time on proper diagnostics thinking you would not want to spend the money. I have employed lots of lawn mower equipment gods and they are good at recognizing the avenue of income such as tunes and other profitable repairs.

If the pulley your hubby found was on top of the transaxle that would be the problem pulley.
Don