Buying Advice Need some help buying my first Yanmar

[void777]

I was about to ask the same question did some misplace the steering wheel J/K.

 

[richriddle]

What is that on the PTO shaft ?

It's a pulley for utilizing a mower, possibly a Woods brand mower. The International Harvester Cub Lo Boy utilizes a similar pulley mechanism. Here is a Yanmar YM 186D with a similar setup and mower attached:



Here is a IH Lo Boy 154 with that setup:

 

[winston1]

Blade tip speed ought to be around 50,000 fpm.

 

[richriddle]

Blade tip speed ought to be around 50,000 fpm.

You'd hate to be in the neighbor's yard if it threw a rock or stick.

 

[clemsonfor]

that's one of those pulleys that is used to run like a mid mount mower that has a super long belt and all kinds of pulleys to transfer power to the mower deck. They had setups like that for farmall cubs.

 

[WillyH]

I swear I looked for a notch. I thought it was for pull-starting the diesel.

 

[California]

Can't help it, gotta post this imaginative work of art I discovered after my 13yo niece visited here.

 

[WillyH]

I'll send a pic off to Gary Jamieson, and he'll be able to tell me what that pulley was for. There was some wonderful story that came with the tractor, about it being the third one that Gary ever sold, with the first two going to him and his daughter. He told me that that was probably not true, as he'd already been selling them for 6 or 7 seven years before he bought his. He told me that he had sold over a thousand of the 135s, and I love the idea of all those old yannies way up the dirt roads, hammering along, doing their **** jobs all these years on. I would suspect that most of them are still running. I cannot get over the cave-man simplicity of the design, and just how well and how long it has held up. When the dozer at work starts throwing codes and complaining about charging system voltage, the 40 year old yanmar is thumping along, starting a campfire in its intake manifold to get going on cold mornings. I love it to pieces.

 

[WillyH]

So I got the old girl split clean in half today, and sure enough, the coupler's got no splines on one side. Additionally, the clutch disc has no torsion springs left, which seem to have been rubber balls or some such based on the debris in the bellhousing. I think I might put the flywheel on the Bridgeport and give it a quick pass, and install a new disc and pressure plate while I'm in the neighborhood. Winston, I found the coupler well back of the bellhousing, above the rear yoke of the front driveshaft. Which jives perfectly with the location of the noise I was hearing.




Splitting the tractor was a valuable 'getting to know you' exercise, what with the linkages and hoses and whatnot. Happy to be giving Hoye some business, and glad of the help I've received here. I'll keep y'all posted, but it's pretty much going to be pushing dirt and snow until I find some more implements. I'm hoping to fix a few sheetmetal issues, but she's fairly intact and life tends to intrude. Here's hoping. Regards, Bill

 

[winston1]

I could have been a little plainer, should have said toward the rear of the bell (clutch) housing. Glad the trouble has been found and on the way to repair. :thumbsup: