fishman
Veteran Member
Well I had a somewhat interesting thing happen to my 2910 this weekend. Saturday I drove it up onto my trailer and took it over to a friends house to help him out. When I got there, the clutch felt funny (kind of spongey? but not really very noticeable) and the tractor wouldn't start. Very confused.
Checked pto and all of the usual suspects. No seat cut-off switch, so that wasn't an option. Good contact at the battery. Sat and thought for a minute. Drank a Coke.
In desperation I manually rocked the tractor forward and back, then tried the key. It started right up! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
So the specifics. When I loaded the tractor, I drove it forward and wedged the loader lip under the front cross brace on my trailer, as usual. Then I strapped it down across the center of the foot platform. This was not how I normally do it, usually I strap across the loader and across the box blade, but since I was only going a couple of miles on back roads, and I had my post hole digger on, I figured it was o.k.
So my question I guess is: What happened? My thought in rocking the tractor was similar to what you do to unload a locked steering wheel preventing you from turning a car key. I thought maybe the tractor had a load on the transmission somehow from trailering. Don't see how, but maybe someone who knows something about this can shed some light on this? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
Checked pto and all of the usual suspects. No seat cut-off switch, so that wasn't an option. Good contact at the battery. Sat and thought for a minute. Drank a Coke.
In desperation I manually rocked the tractor forward and back, then tried the key. It started right up! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
So the specifics. When I loaded the tractor, I drove it forward and wedged the loader lip under the front cross brace on my trailer, as usual. Then I strapped it down across the center of the foot platform. This was not how I normally do it, usually I strap across the loader and across the box blade, but since I was only going a couple of miles on back roads, and I had my post hole digger on, I figured it was o.k.
So my question I guess is: What happened? My thought in rocking the tractor was similar to what you do to unload a locked steering wheel preventing you from turning a car key. I thought maybe the tractor had a load on the transmission somehow from trailering. Don't see how, but maybe someone who knows something about this can shed some light on this? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
