Clutch Issues
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:20 pm
Hi,
I did some searching on your site and found some ideas on what my problem might be but I wanted to tell the story and see if anyone has any ideas. I had been working on a pond dam with no apparent problems. I was at a point where I was using the tractor tires to pack some dirt so I would drive up the dam and then press in the clutch to let the tractor roll back down. Well I hit a bump on one pass and my foot came off the clutch. So all at once my tractor was engaged while still rolling in reverse. Well, I made several more passes with no apparent problem, then turned the tractor around to go elsewhere. When I got to my destination I pressed the clutch in and nothing happened...tractor kept going forward. I ended up with the front end up in a bush on an imbankment before I could cut the tractor off. I thought maybe something had come out of adjustment so I relocated the clutch linkage to the second hole(two stage clutch) as an experiment. In this position the last 1/4 of pedal travel was very difficult to push but did seem to disengage the clutch. I was able to get the tractor out of the bush and change gears at this point. I decided I'd go ahead and move 2 more piles of dirt before parking it to look into clutch problems....big mistake. I went forward and backwards a few more times and then the next gear change did nothing....it just stayed put...IN THE BOTTOM OF MY POND...WITH RAIN CHANCES!! If I put the tractor in a gear and let the clutch out I can feel the tractor budge ever so slightly. Is this one of those cases where I'm going to have to open her up to see what's wrong? Do you think the foot slipping of the clutch could have been the cause of the problem?
I did some searching on your site and found some ideas on what my problem might be but I wanted to tell the story and see if anyone has any ideas. I had been working on a pond dam with no apparent problems. I was at a point where I was using the tractor tires to pack some dirt so I would drive up the dam and then press in the clutch to let the tractor roll back down. Well I hit a bump on one pass and my foot came off the clutch. So all at once my tractor was engaged while still rolling in reverse. Well, I made several more passes with no apparent problem, then turned the tractor around to go elsewhere. When I got to my destination I pressed the clutch in and nothing happened...tractor kept going forward. I ended up with the front end up in a bush on an imbankment before I could cut the tractor off. I thought maybe something had come out of adjustment so I relocated the clutch linkage to the second hole(two stage clutch) as an experiment. In this position the last 1/4 of pedal travel was very difficult to push but did seem to disengage the clutch. I was able to get the tractor out of the bush and change gears at this point. I decided I'd go ahead and move 2 more piles of dirt before parking it to look into clutch problems....big mistake. I went forward and backwards a few more times and then the next gear change did nothing....it just stayed put...IN THE BOTTOM OF MY POND...WITH RAIN CHANCES!! If I put the tractor in a gear and let the clutch out I can feel the tractor budge ever so slightly. Is this one of those cases where I'm going to have to open her up to see what's wrong? Do you think the foot slipping of the clutch could have been the cause of the problem?