Several years ago I built my wife a stretched Cub Cadet to use for gardening and yard work. She didn’t particularly care for the hydrostatic drive. And, because our place is pretty hilly, she really didn’t like parking it. She’d been after me to redo it as a gear drive for several years, and I finally got around to it about a month ago. You can see the finished project here. It’s the first video on the page. You probably can’t tell in the video, but the gear shift lever had to be moved forward 31 inches. I wasn’t sure it was going to work until it was completely finished and I got to try it out. I was pleasantly surprised at how well it works.