Hydro lever adjust on cyclopse
 

blowing snow this morning with { new to me equipment} 451 blower and 1864 ... hydro wants to head right back to neutral, when moving forward, I have attempted to tighten the cross shaft, but it seems I get nowhere' the lever just seems slopy etc. Trunion looks to be in decent shape , little or no wear. Have I missed something. On the older tractors they show tightening the lever to 8 pounds of pull using a fish scale. My 1812 is adjusted for plowing , tilling etc. set the hydro and forget it. I really want the same on this guy too. advice and thoughts welcome. thank you

Rob

You need to tighten the nut that puts pressure on the friction disk. It's on the left side as your sitting on the tractor kind of behind the dash panel.

that's the nut I have tightened . it seems to do nothing...I have taken 5-6 revolutions and no better.

The nut seems to get tight but lever is still sloppy,

Wondering if my dished washers are wore out?


To replace the dished washers do you have to remove the plastic dash???

Rob

If you need to replace the bell washers or the friction disk you'll need to remove the plastic dash and that is a PITA job. Do you have a copy of the service manual for the Cyclops? If you need one send me a PM with your e-mail address and I'll send it to you. It's a 12 MB PDF.

See if you can get a Stover nut on there to replace the original one.

here is a pic of the nut that Iam tightening.

what is a stover nut?

That's the nut, try tightening it some more. Maybe someone had it loosened.

will do

thanks much

It is a locking nut.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distorted_thread_locknut

Lew his looks like the proper lock nut that they come with. Unless something else is wrong it should tighten up.

Just throwing this out there, technically you CAN get the cross arm out enough to replace the friction disk and bell washers but it is a major PITA and I wouldn't do it unless I absolutely had to. I'd think he could just tighten that nut up and be good. If he got 5-6 turns out of it already, someone had to have loosened it to begin with.

Well l got the nut and bell washers off { did not have to remove the plastic dash, just enough room to get the nut off . Had to carefully pry the plastic out about 1/2 an inch. The bell washers were put on backwards so they couldn't flex, and missing one too.

The parts break calls for 3 of # 736-3022 bell washer I only had 2 So Monday morning will have to order the correct parts and then will be back in business. thanks for all the help...

still waiting for my parts to arrive. they better come soon snow is coming tomorrow

Got the parts today. yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee we got 4" of snow to play in ..... got the 1864 hydro all put back together, everything works as it should.

That has to be a great feeling to get your machine fixed and ready to play.

it feels great....blower works great too......

Another success story! :biggrin2:

Congrats on a job well done!:beerchug: