I have a toro self propelled mower. When I first purchased it new, the further that you pushed the bar to make it drive, the faster it went. In fact if you wanted you could almost run behind it. Speed walk at least. The older it has gotten (2 years), the slower it has become. I have had to replace the drive cable and the drive belt already, but this has not helped. Both due to old age/breakage. I have the drive cable adjusted as far as I can and still permit the transmission to go into neutral when pulling the mower backwards. The only thing that I can think of is the pulleys at the blade and the transmission are worn. But that doesn't make a lot of sense to me because the only part that could cause wear on them is the rubber belt! It has almost gotten to the point that the mower is a push mower- not self propelled. No noises from transmission nor obvious wear.

We have a very old wired electric lawn mower, about 10 years old. If we used this when the grass was wet what would happen? I'm looking on buying on a new one, does anyone who knows about lawn mowers have any advice they can give. Thanks. :) [IMG]http://goo.gl/cn8OF4[/IMG]