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[AndyG]

I had a little trouble stopping my TC 40 last weekend. I was headed down hill and hit the brakes. The rear wheels locked but the front ones kept turning. Is there a way to make the front wheels stop when the brake pedal is applied.

 

[Bird]

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Yes, have it in 4WD.

 

[thcri]

Andy,

Is this a gear or hydro. If it was a gear keeping it in a lower gear should hold you back from going too fast, in fact the hydro should also if in a lower gear. Sometimes we get rolling too fast when we put the clutch in and let the tractor free wheel. If going downhill on a steep slope with a load behind you it doesn't hurt to have it in 4 wheel also.

Now after you clean your shorts you just have to get back on your tractor and hit that hill again.
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murph

 

[AndyG]

Sorry, it is a hydo tractor with supersteer and sensitrak (sp?)

 

[Bob_Skurka]

Go down hills in LOW range and 4wd engaged, you'll find you can decend in a controlled manner. Go down in MED or HIGH range and 2wd and you just have to hang on and hope.

 

[SteveInMD]

Did you have weight on the front of the tractor - i.e. something in the bucket? If so, there was probably only a little weight on you back tires, hence the ride down the hill. Using 4WD is a good idea, but you should also be going backward down a hill when you have a load on the front. If you go down forwards the center of gravity moves forward. The steeper the hill the farther forward it moves.

 

[PineRidge]

If it had sensitrak shouldn't 4WD have come into play automatically?

 

[thcri]

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Can't say if they are suppose to, but mine doesn't. If I go down a steep hill my back tires will rotate opposite directions. One will go forward and the other will try and go backwards. I have learned that even just mowing on my steep hill going down I have to put it in 4 wheel or I will rip the yard up.

murph

 

[MackAttack]

I had this happen with my Hydro and found that if I press on the forward pedal ever so slightly that it would prevent this from occuring. The first few times you do this you as if you are going to go for the ride of your life but it actually slows you down and prevents you from both rolling faster or skidding down the hill. It seems as if you have shifted into low gear.

 

[PineRidge]

Murph I'm no New Holland tech but might you have some other problem? We have more than a few slopes on our property including the back side of the dam which we mow and the R4s have never lifted the turf (yet). Most of the time it's low range and very little pressure on the HST pedal and the transmission seems to keep the tractor stable on the descent. We mow going down as well as up the backside, it's a real rush but it's far from a free wheel ride.

I can count on one hand the number of times that the TC-40D has been manually locked in 4WD in the year+ that we have had it. Normally the sensitrak does the deed for us.