Just bought my first tractor!

[RonMar]

Havn't looked at the levers in a while, but if I recall the difflock lever is longer and located up higher under the 3PH rais/lower lever. If I recall it pushes against a springloaded plunger, and down is engage. When it is engaged, the lever will fall freely to the engaged position. When you hold the lever up, and the load is taken off of the 3 toothed pawl in the rearend, the parts will pop apart by spring pressure and then the lever will stay up on it's own. When I use mine, I lift it up and push my leg out to the side to hold the lever up, and can usually feel the plunger pop out and smack the control lever thru my leg to tell me it is disengaged. IF the difflock were engaged, and things were working right in the rear differential, it would be very hard to turn the tractor asthe outside wheel gould not turn faster than the inside wheel. All that traction in the rear would make it just want to go in a straight line...

The PTO engagement lever is down on the side of the gearbox, engaged is also forward on that lever...

I don't recall ever finding a wire 26, and don't have it listed on the schematic I drew. Can you take a picture of it showing it's general location on the tractor? here is a link to that schematic, you might find it usefull. IF I can ID that wire 26, I will add it to the schematic.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/...28-jinma-284-electrical-schematic-2005-a.html

 

[drvcycle]

Ron,

OK, I must be looking at the PTO lever. I made lots of tight turns with no trouble, so that lever must not be for the diff lock. I'll look around some more tomorrow to see if I can find the diff lock.

I'll post pictures of the #26 wire as soon as I can get a working cable for my phone. There is no obvious place that it looks like it should be connected to, which is why I think it might be a ground wire. The previous owner said he replaced the clutch and I think that is when it was disconnected and he probably couldn't remember where it belonged.

Dennis

 

[RonMar]

The difflock lever is between the 3PH raise/lower lever and PTO lever. It attaches/pivots at a point below where the 3PH control valve attaches to the right side of the tractor...