SteveM70
Silver Member
I took the bolt all the way out to see how much reverse travel there is and something else stops it. I assume you don't want to mash it down and strain the linkage, so I made sure it does contact the bolt. It still makes contact ran all the way in. I'm leaving it, as you said, I had poor performance in reverse and it's much better now. I was actually concerned, before I had to use the loader to help me back up in a few steep places. Now it will spin the tires if it gets to that point.
Yeah the honda is a unique machine. 18hp, has 4wd, aws, diff lock. It has an 8 speed manual trans high/low. It will go anywhere. In fact, it ran circles around the MF in soft conditions, and would have had to pull it out of the mud of it wasn't for the FEL. It has Ag tires though so expected. Hydraulic lift on the front and snow plow/dozer blade. Unfortunately, mine lacks rear lift and a 3 point. They even made a loader for it, but as I said, parts are just too rare.
Yeah, Ag tires make all the difference. I started out with Ags on my GC but recently switched to R4's. The Ags would get me through mud that the R4's don't stand a chance in but the R4's do every bit as good, if not better on the steepest parts of my lawn.
The reason I switched too R4's was because the Ags kept getting holes in them. A problem that was made worse by the fact that I lost fluid out of the rears every time this happened. Now I'll gladly wait on dryer weather too do field and woods work in exchange for not finding flat tires and puddles of windshield washer fluid when I need my tractor.