WAYNE - I know what your saying about SAND BLASTING. I finally found a place locally that sells 100# bags of quartz blasting sand at a reasonable price and we blasted the snow blade with my pressure blaster. WHAT A MESS! If I had room I'd build a cabinent. I may have to modify my plans to make a collapsible cabinent that would hold a whole CC frame eventually. I did not design my shop to hold TWO FARMALLS, a truck, and three CC's, a LARGE dump cart, and all my power tools. It was only designed for one FARMALL, smaller truck, three Cubbies and NO carts. Work space is at a premium!
I'm not familiar with Gravely's, other than pictures, but I suppose whatever works in their drive train will keep a CC happy for many many decades.
The new Hy-Tran ULTRA is good stuff. I had a POS Chevy LUV pickup yrs ago that the manual 4-spd would not shift IF the miserable 4-cyl. gas engine would start under 20 deg. F with whatever oil was in it. A quick change to Hy-Tran of whatever version was available around 1978 fixed the problem. Ohhhh, Did I mention that the Chevy LUV was the BIGGEST POS vehicle I ever owned? When it ran, it ran O-K, but most times my '96 PSD F250 4X4 would get better MPG, start better, ride MUCH nicer, wasn't as loud, I can actually FIND parts for it. At least IZUZU painted My LUV the correct color, LEMON Yellow.
At least something GOOD came from that POS LUV, the AM/FM/Cass Pioneer radio My Wife gave me for my B-day to put in that LUV has worked flawlessly on my CC #72 since I installed it about 1981.
The landscaping work has hit a bit of a road block, more 90 deg. temps make work NOT an option for a couple more days!