HELP! B2910 won't start!

[dlabrie]

Re: HELP! B2910 won\'t start!

I finally had a chance to get under the tractor. I cleaned and oiled everything that moved with the HST pedal. I also oiled the safety switch. Haven't had a problem since. How does one adjust the saftey switches?
David

 

[duckboy]

Re: HELP! B2910 won\'t start!

The hardest part in adjusting the switches is getting a
wrench to the nuts on the threaded shaft. I used slip
joint pliers to loosen one of the nuts and it will slide off
the bracket. Then I adjusted the nuts so the switch sets
a little higher in the bracket for better contact. While you
are under there, look around for the other two switches
so you will know where they are. I believe there is one by
the rear axel, and another one forward, besides the one for the clutch.
Like I said, I had to do some adjusting on all three.


PR

 

[RobertN]

Re: HELP! B2910 won\'t start!

There's no crank? What kind of tractor don't have a crank? Heck, the crank should sit in a couple clips right next to the seat.

Honestly though, it seems it would be nice to have an auxillary starting method, especially since you can't push start a hydro tranny. The battery on my B8200 was going south a couple years ago. It wouldn't crank over to fire. It would have been nice to have a crank start, or be able to bump start it.

I imagine though, that little diesel has lots higher compression than my old Farmall(she starts on the second crank most the time, third crank worst case). Jeez, I imagine if these little diesels did have an auxillary crank start, with all the compression they have it would have a nasty kick-back.

 

[duckboy]

Re: HELP! B2910 won\'t start!

Hand crank??? Brings back memories of clearing this property with Dad. We had an old Fordson, the ones with huge all steel wheels. Had to crank that. Tractors have certainly changed since those machines were in use. But they were real brutes once you got them going. The exhaust
was pointed down and I remember putting out many a grass
fire in the pastures we were clearing. I saw a Fordson at a nursery the other day, now used as garden art, and I had flash backs of lots of noise, some fires under the tractor, steel splinters from the choker cable while pulling brush and trees,
Dad warming the magnitoes on the radiators at night so it would start in the morning, and my friends playing while we were working on the farm. I have always wondered if some
of the kids I grew up with would have been better people if
they had spent more time like I did, working every night and weekends instead of always playing. My kids never had
video games.....I don't think they were deprived, but enriched instead by spending their time with 4-H, riding horses and spending time with my Mom and Dad at the farm.
What's this have to do with a tractor not starting......I don't know! But that cranking question and not enough coffee
kind of got me to thinking.

PR