John Deere 1026r losing idle speed when mowing....

[denverdave66]

I am very happy with my 1026 until today. I got 43 hours on it and today I ran out of diesel when mowing. So went to town and got more filled it up and when I started going up a slight hill the rpm's went down and I put my foot on the brake and disengaged the blades it was running so rough the entire tractor was shaking. After a few minutes the rpm's went back up and I started to mow again and it happened again. Any idea what might be wrong with this? Also, I changed the blades too, brand new blades never been sharpened and it sounds like they are rattling. I used the torque wrench on them and tightened them to 90 ft pounds. Please help or should I just load it up and take it to the JD dealer and let them figure it out.

 

[Lou66]

Sound like you got air in your fuel line,, if you ran out diesel you will need to get your service book and read up on bleeding you filter.. Lou

 

[denverdave66]

Well its almost due for its 50 hour maintenance so i am just going to take in it Monday and have them maintenance it and fix it. I am not much of a mechanic.

 

[Lou66]

That is a always a good idea.. they know there business,, Lou

 

[Nooodles]

why the heck doid u point new blades on a machine with less than 50 hours on it. ill bet 10-15 hours are only from mowing. Do you mow rocks and sticks?

 

[Henri88]

why the heck doid u point new blades on a machine with less than 50 hours on it. ill bet 10-15 hours are only from mowing. Do you mow rocks and sticks?

I suspect that he upgraded to the gator blades or something similar.

 

[denverdave66]

I live in the woods I mow prolly 3 acres of more and I have lots of oak trees. I also pull behind an Agri Fab lawn vac and during the fall I don't go out and pick up every stick cause they would take the entire day. I pick up the big ones. I would guess I put 25 hours or more from mowing and using the lawn vac. I thought 50 hours on a set of blades were pretty good considering on my John Deere LX277 I would have to sharpen the blades every other mow. If I had just straight grass and no trees I am sure my blades would last much longer.

 

[denverdave66]

Talked to John Deere dealer today of course they are 2 weeks behind on work right now. He told me sounded like I got water in the line, I asked him about air in the line and he said the 1026 has a self bleeding line.