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Another possibility is the motor coupling to the transaxle is slipping.
Art


There is no such. There is a heat-shrink-fit spline coupler on the nose
of the motor shaft that engages a splined shaft on the input side of the
transmission. The output gears of the diff drive the axle shafts through
heavy splines.

If that one shrink-fit coupler were to be loose enough to cause what I'm
hearing, it would make a ton of noise, and would have filled the pumpkin
with metal. Neither happened.

LLoyd