Dont ride the clutch!

[AGGIE00]

This is where I love a wet clutch and reverser. When scooping from a pile I push and lift through the pile at the same time so that the tractor doesn't stop forward movement until the bucket is full and above the pile. CHoose the correct gear when you engage the pile and no clutching necessary with a reverser.

After running backhoes a reverser was a must for me.

 

[jlsmith]

Well I just posted this to maybe help some of the newbies and remind some of the oldies lol. :laughing:

 

[xgraysonx]

I haven't driven a tractor much but I bought my first truck at 14 and rested my foot on the clutch for about 3 years haha until my friend noticed me doing it and told me I'm going to mess it up like that

 

[pat32rf]

If you had an HST none of this would even need discussing.....

 

[whodat526]

If you had an HST none of this would even need discussing.....

show me a 80hp power hst

 

[Dead Horse]

If you had an HST none of this would even need discussing.....

horsecrap. L3710 HST has a clutch.

 

[SPYDERLK]

The correct way to do it is to take the tractor out of gear and let the clutch out until you are done scooping or whaterver with the loader. In the real world this takes to long and is a PITA to do. So most people hold the clutch down while they work the loader which over time and depending on how ofter you do it will wear the clutch down. I have seen clutches many years doing this and ive also seen then wore out in as little as 150 to 200 hrs.

It wears the throw out bearing, and the clutch lift fingers it pushes ... a little. The actual life of the throw out should be several hundred hours holding the clutch disengaged. Thousands of regular hrs as long as you dont rest your foot on the pedal. You usually will be replacing the clutch 1st and replace TO incidenty. What wears the clutch is slipping it to take off or push in too hi a gear -- or causing it to slip [and wearig bearing] by resting your foot on it.
larry

 

[Looking4new]

In my past life I taught guys how to drive big trucks. I would only tell them twice NOT to rest their foot on the clutch. The first time, 'it isn't a hobby horse, don't ride it'. The second time, 'I catch you riding that clutch again and I Will slap you upside the head'. I usually didn't have to tell them a third time. Now remember, that was MY truck and I paid for the repair$. Clutches are not cheap on Class 8 trucks.