I don't know anything about tractors, I will admit that.
I don't know anything about engines either.
Clutches, belts, pulleys, etc..
Hell I am not even confident I can drive anymore!!!
The little bit I thought I did know, appearantly I don't have a clue about anything.
That aside Rick came by again, and imagine this. the tractor is running again.
Maybe the tractor just doesn't like me, but he seems to like Rick.
What did we learn today.
One: Using jumper cables to run from the battery to the power, with all those surges I put it through and all that cranking appearantly makes heat. and well, My jumper cables melted.
This caused the power failure the other day. Nothing wrong with the starter, nothing wrong with the solenoid. Just bad line between the battery and anything (cause we were using the jumpers for everything connecting to the battery). So the engine is fine .. again.
Two: We finally figured out the clutch problem. why did we have only one gear forward and 3 gears reverse. for the longest time we couldn't figure out what was wrong with the belt. why one pulley was slightly off angle (which if you read earlier we tried to redirect, with slight success). Well after discussing it and figuring between me and Rick, we got the belt on a different way, aka, The Right Way. My brother had the belt on wrong. So now the pulley goes the right direction (after bending it back to where it was) and Now I have 3 gears forward and one reverse.
YAY!!
Plus the belt won't fall off again, once we get a new belt.
The belt was stretched a little, and the other day when I burned it, I burned off a bit so that loosened it a bit more. so now its too loose.
So we will go and get another belt tomorrow. Well if Gerry has one.
Hopefully not too expensive. sigh.
We will see.
The only other problem is the choke is loose, we have to take it apart to fix it, but we aren't gonna worry about that until everything else is working well.
lets see how we are doing on our checklist
Next Up on the list of to do:
1: Make tractor to continue to run. -> Done I think
2: Make tractor go forward and backward without losing a belt -> Done I think once we have new belt
3: Figure out gear box -> sorta, needs more playing
4: Make sure gear box works well enough to use. -> I think so, again after the belt change we will see
5: Put mower deck on tractor and test. -> still on the list
6: Mow the now hay field I call a lawn. -> This might get done with a hand mower Rick let us borrow before the tractor is done.
Things looking up again. high low high low. good thing I am an optomist.
I don't know anything about engines either.
Clutches, belts, pulleys, etc..
Hell I am not even confident I can drive anymore!!!
The little bit I thought I did know, appearantly I don't have a clue about anything.
That aside Rick came by again, and imagine this. the tractor is running again.
Maybe the tractor just doesn't like me, but he seems to like Rick.
What did we learn today.
One: Using jumper cables to run from the battery to the power, with all those surges I put it through and all that cranking appearantly makes heat. and well, My jumper cables melted.
This caused the power failure the other day. Nothing wrong with the starter, nothing wrong with the solenoid. Just bad line between the battery and anything (cause we were using the jumpers for everything connecting to the battery). So the engine is fine .. again.
Two: We finally figured out the clutch problem. why did we have only one gear forward and 3 gears reverse. for the longest time we couldn't figure out what was wrong with the belt. why one pulley was slightly off angle (which if you read earlier we tried to redirect, with slight success). Well after discussing it and figuring between me and Rick, we got the belt on a different way, aka, The Right Way. My brother had the belt on wrong. So now the pulley goes the right direction (after bending it back to where it was) and Now I have 3 gears forward and one reverse.
YAY!!
Plus the belt won't fall off again, once we get a new belt.
The belt was stretched a little, and the other day when I burned it, I burned off a bit so that loosened it a bit more. so now its too loose.
So we will go and get another belt tomorrow. Well if Gerry has one.
Hopefully not too expensive. sigh.
We will see.
The only other problem is the choke is loose, we have to take it apart to fix it, but we aren't gonna worry about that until everything else is working well.
lets see how we are doing on our checklist
Next Up on the list of to do:
1: Make tractor to continue to run. -> Done I think
2: Make tractor go forward and backward without losing a belt -> Done I think once we have new belt
3: Figure out gear box -> sorta, needs more playing
4: Make sure gear box works well enough to use. -> I think so, again after the belt change we will see
5: Put mower deck on tractor and test. -> still on the list
6: Mow the now hay field I call a lawn. -> This might get done with a hand mower Rick let us borrow before the tractor is done.
Things looking up again. high low high low. good thing I am an optomist.
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