handirifle
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I have a walk behind, rear tine Craftsman tiller. A couple month back while using it, I hit a BIG rock, and something broke. When moving under power it did fine, but when trying to till it just made a clackety-clack sound.
I took it apart, completely apart, and found that one of the cluster gears had broken off a tooth. I have no repair manual for it, but figured out how to swap the gear, and ordered a new replacement from Sears, and a new gasket for the gear housing.
The parts arrived a few days ago, and today I put them in. Fit perfect. Took me a while to remember where all the bolts and parts went though:laughing:.
Anyway, it seems to be just fine, EXCEPT, when the tines are engaged and lifted in the air, they spin fine. When lowered to the ground, they try to spin but do not.
The question, is this. I know that the internal drive parts are all fine, they are either chain or gear driven and nothing is broken, now.
The external drive is belt with the hand the hand lever that engages it. This is a cable activated pulley that tightens the drive belt. This cable has a spring connection on it at the pulley end.
I am assuming that I might not have this cable/spring connection, applying enough tension to the pulley, and thus it is slipping instead of turning the tines?
I could not remember or tell where it was connected before, since there are numerous holes on the pulley bracket that it can connect to. In addition, there is more room to slide the cable itself back to add more tensions as well.
Anyone have a manual to look this up in or happen to know it off hand.
Any help appreciated.
Oh, by the way, when I bought the tiller, it was a return to Sears, still new really (long since out of warranty). It was returned because it was tricky/hard to engage the drive gears. The new gear cluster cured that problem, so that must have been the cause of it and maybe a rough and weak gear to start? Since the shear pins on the tines, didn't shear!
I took it apart, completely apart, and found that one of the cluster gears had broken off a tooth. I have no repair manual for it, but figured out how to swap the gear, and ordered a new replacement from Sears, and a new gasket for the gear housing.
The parts arrived a few days ago, and today I put them in. Fit perfect. Took me a while to remember where all the bolts and parts went though:laughing:.
Anyway, it seems to be just fine, EXCEPT, when the tines are engaged and lifted in the air, they spin fine. When lowered to the ground, they try to spin but do not.
The question, is this. I know that the internal drive parts are all fine, they are either chain or gear driven and nothing is broken, now.
The external drive is belt with the hand the hand lever that engages it. This is a cable activated pulley that tightens the drive belt. This cable has a spring connection on it at the pulley end.
I am assuming that I might not have this cable/spring connection, applying enough tension to the pulley, and thus it is slipping instead of turning the tines?
I could not remember or tell where it was connected before, since there are numerous holes on the pulley bracket that it can connect to. In addition, there is more room to slide the cable itself back to add more tensions as well.
Anyone have a manual to look this up in or happen to know it off hand.
Any help appreciated.
Oh, by the way, when I bought the tiller, it was a return to Sears, still new really (long since out of warranty). It was returned because it was tricky/hard to engage the drive gears. The new gear cluster cured that problem, so that must have been the cause of it and maybe a rough and weak gear to start? Since the shear pins on the tines, didn't shear!