1025 kept slowing down

[rkallaman]

Mostly off your subject.
Sorry to hear you are having trouble with a new JD 1025.
My JD dealer is telling me my 1025R will break shear pins at startup on a 4' Brush Hog and I should buy a JD with a slip clutch. What is your experience?

 

[RalphVa]

Haven't broken a shear pin yet on my Frontier bush hog; only have spare bolts from the old JD bush hog, hoping they'll work on this one. The hydraulics on the 1025R apparently have something built in for a smooth startup. Not much chance in popping a shear pin on startup. On the 4010 that I had, yes. That thing would slam the PTO on. I often had to restart it 2 and 3 times to get the bush hog blades swinging properly. One time, I even had to stop it and get underneath with a pry bar to get the blades apart. They'd locked up on each other with the abrupt startup.

I fixed the throttle myself today. Just didn't want to go through waiting for the service man again, etc. I looked at it, and nothing appeared broken. There is a BIG washer behind the 2 lock nuts. I just got a 17 mm socket and put a universal on it and a very long extension to reach through from the back side (left side panel off). The nuts were very loose. If this happens in the future again, I'm gonna put a glob of Goop (heavy silicon) on the end of the nut and on the shaft to see if that will stop the nuts from working loose.

Ralph

 

[nikdfish]

Maybe try a nyloc for the end nut?

Nick

 

[94BULLITT]

By lock nuts do you mean jam nuts? Maybe the service guy did not get them tight so they vibrated loose.

 

[RalphVa]

VERY difficult to get in there at the 2nd nut. You can mainly only get a wrench on the end nut and tighten up.

Would require a very special 17mm wrench to get it in there on the other nut, the one up against the washer.

Ralph

 

[Gary Fowler]

Nyloc nuts are self locking. They have a nylon bushing crimped on the end which keeps them from loosening off. You don't need to double nut a bolt with ny-loc nuts although if properly installed, I have never had a double nut loosen off.

 

[Gator6x4]

VERY difficult to get in there at the 2nd nut. You can mainly only get a wrench on the end nut and tighten up.

Would require a very special 17mm wrench to get it in there on the other nut, the one up against the washer.

Ralph

A trick I have used in the past when a "Specialty Wrench" was needed, was purchase a moderately priced wrench at Northern Tools, and heat and bend the wrench into the configuration needed. You may also be able to reach into the area with a "Crows Foot Line Socket" or a "Starter Wrench". Here is a Google page of specialty wrenches. https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=speciality+offset+wrenches

 

[Jarrod32]

Mostly off your subject.
Sorry to hear you are having trouble with a new JD 1025.
My JD dealer is telling me my 1025R will break shear pins at startup on a 4' Brush Hog and I should buy a JD with a slip clutch. What is your experience?

I run a 4' Howse rotary cutter on my 1025r and have not had a problem with shear pins breaking. Engage the PTO at low RPMs (I usually engage at just over idle) then slowly rev up to PTO RPM. I haven't had any such problem at all...

 

[bradrich18]

I had a similar problem on my 1026R. I had to have the friction disc on my throttle lever replaced because it wore out.

 

[RalphVa]

Is the friction disc behind that big washer that's immediately behind the lock nuts?

So far, mine's holding now after I retightened it myself.

Ralph