So I'm new to the forum, and am excited to post my first service, repair & maintenence thread. The first of very many to come, I'm sure!
When we step on the brakes, the pedal moves about an inch to take the slop out of the linkages, then you have to press down pretty hard to get the linkage to pull the brake cam, at which point the tractor will stop pretty nicely.
When my wife and I nearly took out 2 of our green fence panels, I realized I needed to get to work fixing the problem. I sprayed most of the linkages and pedal pivots down with an orange degreaser and then pressure washed years of greasy dirt out of the area. After greasing the zerks until fresh grease came out around the spring clips at the ends of the pivots, I tested the system.
The pedals moved smoothly for the first inch, but were just as bound up as before, so it has to be in the final drive assembly.
I pulled up the condensed service manual I found online (I think here) but I'm not exactly comfortable taking the entire backside of the tractor apart to clean the brake cams. So my question is, so has run into a similar problem with the cam-and-ball wet brake disc system binding up, and how did you fix it?
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When we step on the brakes, the pedal moves about an inch to take the slop out of the linkages, then you have to press down pretty hard to get the linkage to pull the brake cam, at which point the tractor will stop pretty nicely.
When my wife and I nearly took out 2 of our green fence panels, I realized I needed to get to work fixing the problem. I sprayed most of the linkages and pedal pivots down with an orange degreaser and then pressure washed years of greasy dirt out of the area. After greasing the zerks until fresh grease came out around the spring clips at the ends of the pivots, I tested the system.
The pedals moved smoothly for the first inch, but were just as bound up as before, so it has to be in the final drive assembly.
I pulled up the condensed service manual I found online (I think here) but I'm not exactly comfortable taking the entire backside of the tractor apart to clean the brake cams. So my question is, so has run into a similar problem with the cam-and-ball wet brake disc system binding up, and how did you fix it?
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