thanks again and gettin old makes one see how they have lost some sense during the past i got a different lawn tractor the other day brought i home and tried to run it mind you i have 2 others and one is identical to this newer one and well i could get ti to mow and the blades were on backwards not my fault and then i couldnt get it to go very fast replaced drive belt and replaced blades,, tried again and it wouldnt go very fast,, then shortly i started getting smoke from the rear of it and no not gas:0 well i got off disengaged the mower and let it run started looking at what was down there and saw it was a clutch .. pushed in clutch no smoke??? let it out got smoke ..this thing has a parking brake and it was locked in......unlocked the braked and hey i can go fast now and cut grass too..so as we grow older we get dumber too