Cub Cadet driveshaft production

[Tx_adv]

I would like to know when cub cadet stopped using driveshafts on their garden tractors. I'm having problems fnding information anywhere on the Internet.

 

[dschwandt]

I'm having trouble figuring out just what you are referring to here.
You mean instead of a driveshaft to propel the unit they are using belts??

Drive shafts are for garden tractors.
Belts are for lawn mowers
MTD Builds both, at least that's what they want folks to believe since when...the 90's or thereabouts??

 

[Kittermankadets85]

Still to this day cub cadet garden tractors have drive shafts. ( not the cheap ones you buy at Home Depot or tractor supply but the real ones at your dealers)

 

[Cub Cadet Al]

2000 Series and the current XT3 models all have drive shafts. My Cub, 2148 model, was the last “white hood” tractor before the current enduro series XT3 which is exactly the same tractor with different colors scheme. Driveshafts in both.

 

[jbaker]

does your 2148 have a locking differential ?

 

[Cub Cadet Al]

Mine does not. It is an option and an option on the XT3 as well.