BX24 Braking woes

[coreshot]

Yesterday, I was BBing a horse pasture that had plenty of rocks in it. It was a pretty rough job, with lots of jolts as the teeth would hit a rock and pull it out of the ground. After I got done, while loading the tractor on the trailer, I noticed that the brake pedal felt odd.

Normally, the pedal increases in resistance the farther you push it in, now it just goes right to the bottom of the stroke and bottoms out. The parking brake still holds it in place, but it sets all the way to the last notch on the parking brake set. I inspected the linkage, and everything seems to be in place right back to where it goes into the rear end. No oil anywhere. Anybody had anything remotely like this happen?

My warranty ends in May...

 

[coreshot]

After a quick pressure washing, things are a bit cleaner, the only thing I can see is in the second and third photos, the silver area with the threads in it. Before washing, the internal threads were pretty clean, as if there was something screwed into it until recently. Any of you BX owners have access to look at their tracotr to see? Thanks.

 

[coreshot]

The PDF parts list doesn't show anything to do with the brake in that area that isn't accounted for on my tractor...

 

[coreshot]

Nobody???

 

[timswi]

Nobody???

The brakes on the BX's are pretty bad to begin with...Might be why there's no response. Nothing bent or disconnected. Don't know where to send you on this one.

 

[coreshot]

The brakes on the BX's are pretty bad to begin with...Might be why there's no response. Nothing bent or disconnected. Don't know where to send you on this one.

I did a search, and only came up with one thread that sounded like a similar problem. But it dead ended with no solution

 

[Singlecoil]

First of all, pressure washing?!? You can borrow my tractor anytime

Here are some pictures of my not-so-clean tractor. Hopefully these are helpful. (edit: I added one more at the end that I think shows that you aren't missing anything there)

 

[radioman]

Ok- i see this thread now- Ill have to run out tonight and take a look too. Not sure where to begin for you. Wish I had a WSM to look at.

 

[kevinj]

I inspected the linkage, and everything seems to be in place right back to where it goes into the rear end. ...

Are you sure the adjustment sleeve did not loosen up and move???

 

[coreshot]

Everything looks like it's been the way it is for awhile. I took it to my local stealer to have them take a look. I will post up what they find when I find out. It happened real suddenly, one minute I had fine pedal pressure, and the next the pedal went to the bottom.