Transmission Assembly 06200-V06-305

Removed tines from shaft, pulled transmission assembly off, removed the six bolts from housing, separated and cleaned out old grease with a degreaser, found a lot of metal pieces and gear teeth were missing on the tine shaft. Packed housing and all new parts with grease, cleaned off any grease around housing and applied gasket sealer arou ... Read more nd housing unit and reassembled transmission. Removed the two screws from the side and used a 60 CC syringe to finish packing in the grease. That was about the hardest part of the repairs.
I also had to drill out the rivets on the soil guard and drill out the holes. Used 1/4 20 bolts to bolt it back together. I also applied lock tight on all the bolts when I reassembled everything.
Actually the job went better that I had expected it to. Next day back in my garden and the tiller was like brand new once again. I\'ve always emptied the fuel and ran it dry before putting it back in my storage shed. I bought the Tiller 18 years ago and it fires up on the second pull. I\'ve replaced the fuel lines I guess two or three times since I bought it years ago. Great little machine. Keep the oil changed, always empty the fuel before putting up and rinse off any dirt.
The parts plus shipping cost $148, a whole lot cheaper than buying a new one.
Good luck if you are a do it yourselfer. RC in Houston, TX.

Cleaned all housings and assembled as instruction. Need to include rubber gasket material on orders next time. Had to do to the store, and buy that, and grease. With that about 3 hours

Break down the gear box pull the old parts. Clean all reusable parts. Install all new parts.

***There is a learning curve, which takes extra time, if you\'ve never performed this repair before.
1. Removed transmission assembly from engine.
2. Disassembled the transmission.
3. Removed damaged parts.
4. Scraped off sealant from both side for transmission housing.
5. Cleaned transmission housing.
... Read more 6. Found out from instructions a special tool was needed to attach the clutch drum to the shaft and screw gear.
* ( Would have been nice to know before purchase. I wasn\'t willing to pay $45 to purchase one so I bought a 1 1/2\" socket at Lowes and made my own which took a couple of hours. Also, the metal on the upper shaft was soft enough that when my torque wrench malfunctioned it allowed the bottom screw gear thread to slightly mushroom the upper shaft. Thank goodness I was watching.)
7. Assembled the bushings and seals on the transmission housing and transmission gears to the clutch drum.
8. Applied Permatex Red RTV High Temp Sealant to both the inside of each housing. (Not willing to pay $25 for Honda\'s sealant. I\'ve done car and truck engine rebuilds so I couldn\'t see Honda\'s product being superior.)
9. Put the gears inside the housing and reassembled.
10. Filled transmission with required grease.
11.Attached transmission to engine.
12. Started engine on first pull and the tines turned like they did when it was new.

Used Honda\'s Transmission rebuild kit. All necessary part were in the kit and all of the parts fit perfectly. Honda instructions were included with the kit.