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Put a voltmeter clipped onto the large terminal of the starter and the other lead to ground on the engine. Key off. Then test again while in the cranking position. If you don't get full 12 volts, backtrack and find the fault. If that looks good, turn the key to crank and see what the voltage...

The manual states to go from full throttle down to half speed to engage the pto. IDK, does anyone normally run at full throttle?

Exactly. A separate brake/pedal for each side would be nice, it sure makes sharp turns in mud easier. I used to use them on my old neighbors big yellow JD loader/hoe

Yes thank you very much! That line in the manual does not apply to my tractor. I will now stop *trying* to engage the pto slowly, I will just slow the rpm's like I have been doing and move that lever at any speed I feel like. Whew! Didn't mean to come off as an @$$ or and idiot, was just...

First, I'm not trying to be argumentative, I'm just trying to find out if in the manual where it says "To avoid damage to PTO clutch and implement, shift the PTO clutch lever slowly, when engaging the PTO clutch." means absolutely nothing. It doesn't need to be there. Right?

OK, so then something is wrong with mine. When I engage the PTO with the mmm attached, there is no way for me to engage it faster or slower. The speed of the lever makes no difference. Once it engages it slows the engine down a bit and blows black smoke for a second. There is no way to...

I'm not planning on fiddling with it! I just wanted to know how it worked. So from what you are saying, were the manual states: "To avoid damage to PTO clutch and implement, shift the PTO clutch lever slowly, when engaging the PTO clutch." So those instructions mean nothing because there is...

Yes, that makes perfect sense. Actually none of the *wheels* have brakes, just the drive system. If I'm in that situation, I normally put it into 4wd, I was just checking to be sure.

Yes but that doesn't address my question. On mine it makes no difference how fast or how slow I move the lever. I can move it an 1/8" at a time and when it grabs, it grabs with very little slippage. There is no in between area, it's engaged or disengaged. Flipping the lever fast does the...

On my BX2370 the pto engage lever has always been "touchy". I can move it as slowly as possible and still it will grab all of a sudden. Yesterday just to try it with the mmm, I tried engaging it fast and slow (at reduced engine rpm's always). It doesn't make a bit of difference how fast or...

The rain let up enough yesterday to mow part of my yard and all of my lady friend's lawn. Put it in and out of diff lock a bunch of times just to try it, and you know, in some situations it will still be a PITA to get it out of lock when heading for a hard surface. Maybe I'll get lucky and it...

D2Cat, with the question of what else would break if the pins didn't, it made me think of my 55 chevy hot rod. I put a newer "12 bolt" rear/transaxle in it to handle the power/torque of the motor. Trying to compare it to the locking rear isn't really that great of a comparison since it doesn't...

If those 4 pins had been located around a larger diameter area, yes they would be strong. But they aren't, I don't have that in front of me now but the holes in the spider gear are pretty close together. The smaller the radius of those pins is exponentially weaker the smaller the radius, and...

When I bought it I was only shopping for a lawn mower, for which it's oversized for that job. Getting it with a loader has me doing a lot of things I never could have done with a lawn mower, but a bigger tractor is out of my budget, in fact the same size new with a backhoe is way out of my...

I sort of knew someone was going to tell me that. It would be a real nuisance to put the ballast on for 10 minutes of mowing then taking it off. And I was being a bit dramatic about how bad that problem is, it's only if I go too fast which I don't do anymore anyway.