any chance you washed the unit down to make it look good for the sale and got water on the park brake caliper mechanism up under the fender outside the tranny where it's now corroded and stuck? Sometimes a good shot of rattlecan brake pad cleaner on the pucks and disc can free such up.. just a thought....

Thanks for taking time to weigh in, rcbe!

I got a call a few moments ago from the buyer. H deiscoverd the drive belt had come off the rear pulley. He had the engine running, tranny lever mowed forward and had stepped off the mower, which lurched forwad and then stopped. He thinks that made the belt jump off.

We wee both relieved it was something simple.

Good to hear that you were saved a long trip and that the new owner is back in business...

And, thats why the makers have had to put those safety controls on everything except yer bedroom slippers!
For bone-heads! That guy will be the first one to sue the Company, or you--when he gets his fingers cut off, or his toes under the mowing deck, with chop-chop sounding quickly!
If it was me--I'd certainly find out of he'd sell it back to me--I'd tell him I'd give back $25 more than he paid for it.

I wish I would have taken a photo of the warning icons all over the mower deck, which are little stick figures getting their head, feet and arms cut off. I always got a kick out of that.

I had told the buyer when I handed him the manual for the Sabre that if this was his first riding mower he should read the starting and operating procedures. But, like most damn rednecks, they figure if they can operate a TV remote they can run or drive anything, he obviously didn't!

Anyway, all's well. Ii have my money, the buyer's happy, and now I'm going shopping for that new Ferris ZT!