Tiller Buhler Tiller Y60SD

[thcri]

I just brought home a Buhler Tiller. Actually my daughter wanted it for her birthday present so she can have a good size garden. And I wanted it also.

Anyway I want to set it in the center as it came off set to one side. As usual I forgot to get the book on it. Can't find a manual online for it but I did see for the next series up you just loosen the two u clamps and it should slide over. I loosened them way up but can not get the drive line to slide at all. Anyone got any experience with this model. I can't find any locking bolts or anything like that.

Also I did start tilling with it but noticed it was slipping alot on the slip clutch. Reading the manual again for a different series I see you are suppose to turn 4 allen screws all the way out. These were not, did I hurt the slip clutch at all? I ran it for about 20 minutes going not very deep but on the surface. Anyway when I finally figured out something was wrong you can smell the burning and also there was some smoke coming out of it.

Any help would be appreciated.

murph

 

[Egon]

Perhaps your drtive line looks like this.

Egon

 

[Egon]

Page from manual.

Egon

 

[Egon]

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>next series up you just loosen the two u clamps and it should slide over </pre><hr />

That is what the manual says. Paint may be binding it and a little more persuasion may help.

Egon

 

[thcri]

I got the slip clutch working. I did find the 4 allen screws and turned them all the way out. Tiller worked great for about an hour and then I must have hit something. That drive line is the same for the next series up which I can get the manual off the web for that one so I will download it and use it until I can get the right one. Still can't get the unit to slide over. I think if maybe I loosen the U bolts and then maybe do some tilling with them loose maybe if any paint is holding it, it should break away.

I must have hit a solid rock because now alls I hear is a rattling noise. The PTO shaft turns but the tines don't. I can move the tines by hand so I am hoping there is just a shear pin in there?

murph

 

[Henro]

Murph,

Hope it is just a shear pin in there somewhere...

Also, sounds like you now know the two limits for setting the slip clutch. The correct setting is likely somewhere in between... /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[Egon]

Pto turns - tines don't - rattling noise /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Sugest you check the chain!

Egon

 

[thcri]

Yep it is the chain. Broke a link right in half. So my question is did I turn the allen screws out to far???? The manual says to take them all the way out, as far as you can go??? So that is what I did. There is some maintenance you can do on the clutch but it does not talk about the allen screws in the maintenance. I probably should go through the maintenance even though it is a new machine. Well my dealer said he set everything up too??? Don't think he did.

murph

 

[Henro]

<font color="blue"> So my question is did I turn the allen screws out to far???? </font>

Murph,

I would expect so. First you had slippage...then you turned the screws all the way out and you had no slippage, but hit a rock and broke the chain...

To me this would indicate that the correct setting would be somewhere in between...

 

[thcri]

I guess if I would have gotten a complete manual with it I wouldn't be asking these questions. What manual I could get off the internet only says to turn all the way out.

Page from manual is attached. Doesn't really say much about the adjustment here.

 

[Egon]

Loosen the clutch till you can turn it by hand and then step it up in small increments till it reaches a point the tractor can just slip it. Another touch up and you should have it.

Love that chain grease /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif On mine I found removing the tensioner spring made instalation a lot easier.

Egon

 

[thcri]

Even when the screws were all the way out you could not move the tines while being hooked to the tractor. However it would just slip when I started tilling. I will take the chain to the dealer on Monday Morning or even put it in a bag this afternoon and drop it off at the front door. Then the dealer can come to my place and re-install the chain and make the adjustments. It's brand new, doesn't even have an hour on it yet.

murph