I have what i believe is a 1954 Fordson major diesel, quite a while ago the side belt pulley starts up when running tractor and no amount of turning the pulley hand lever will disengage it, i can put my foot on it and it will stop till i remove my foot. Is friction causing the pulley to turn. Thanks for your help. Tom
My super major seems to do the same in tick over, I just wedge a sponge between the guard and the pulley and that stops it. I wonder if a slightly thicker gasket would help between pulley housing and the gearbox
Hi all - if you think about it - it's the natural motion makes it wanna turn- cause the gear on the end of the pully is in constant mesh with the gear box drive - even though it's disengaged - its sill on a inline shaft - so it will still turn just via the "vibration" through the drive shaft -
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My pulley was just the same untill after my son took it into work and pressed on a new bearing for me. He says there was quite a lot of burring on the gear which made enough friction to turn the pulley wheel so he cleaned the burring off with emery cloth and its been no trouble since.
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