"Lever too short"; That's my final answer, Regis!

[dmcluckie]

[Final episode in Don's soap opera wherein Don is overwhelmed with buyer's remorse by a sticking/balky/jerky hydro control on his mid-90s Landlord] I put on the new belt, it helped a little. Really. All the linkage is free enough. I think the problem is that the lever is too #@!* short. It is a dash lever, moving horizontally. The horizontal arm is only a few inches long. And the total throw/movement at the end of the arm is quite short. So, a little movement equals a big change at the trans. I might (seriously) graft an extension on to it. And it that's not it, I'm taking my prize and going home, because I'm out of lifelines. :) PS: My wife says we're keeping it come what may. The yard at the new place is too sparse and cruddy to deploy a new machine on it. Sadly she's right. Yesterday it was like mowing in a dustbowl. But the Landlord does cut it well. Who knows, if it responds to the glandular extension, it may be with us a long time. -Don

[Guest]

Did you try to adjust the stop on the lever? It is toward the end of the spring and has a bolt running through it where you can adjust where it stops at? Just a thought.

[dmcluckie]

No, I haven't adjusted the stop. The stop I see is a large cylindrical pair of steel stops that look like 1/2" thick washers. They are on a bolt at the last linkage point and they contact the wide flat brake linkage. I have a service manual coming in the mail and I will see what I can do after it comes.

[MarcM]

Say I like that when someone is so determined to make things work write. One things for sure Don you should surely know how to keep things on your tractor that need adjusting and pretty soon you will me helping all of us from what you have learned. See just how this all goes around in one big cirle ha :) Keep On Tractoring, >>->happyjack<-<<