Delta & Roland: I has looked at both manuals. The page 29 illustration of the owner's manual is the same illustration that is shown in the GSS service manual. The pedal stop is the item that is not on the tractor and there is no indication that there ever was one.
Darkminion: I'm not missing either of those items. It appears that the gear drive tractors do not have a pedal stop as do the hydro tractors.
The tractor stops fine on level ground. It very slightly wants to roll when I want to stop on an incline such as loading it on a trailer. I looked at the brake discs and neither one shows any sign of "rubbing" as I would have assumed there would be. Both are rough in appearance and not shiney as would be expected. Being a hydro, brake usage is rather minimal to begin with. Either they are simply out of adjustment or the pads are in need of replacement. There looks to be quite a bit of adjustment left in the adjusting rods. It's just a matter of figuring out were to adjust them to.
A bit of background. At my shop I mounted a QA42A snowthrower. When I took the tractor home for winter duty, I loaded on the trailer with the trailer level and simply drove it up the loading ramp. At the first minor snow fall, I went out to test it and it wouldn't back up my sloped driveway. I figured that the hydro might need to be looked at. I reloaded it on the trailer without problems and took it back to the shop (nice and warm there). The hydro level was about a quart low so I went to a local IH/Case/New Holland/Cub Cadet dealer and picked up a couple of quarts of MTD fluid. I asked the dealer and he said it was either the hydro valves or the linkage needed adjusting. He told me how to check both valves to insure they were good and if so go through the linkage adjusting procedure. That is when I bumped into the brake setting requirement. To first test the brakes I put my trailer into full tilt and backed it on. No problem until I put the brakes on. That's when it would start to slowly roll off the trailer. I read the manuals and started to look at the tractor to adjust the brakes and found no pedal stop. The incline of my driveway is greater than the incline that I had the trailer at so I knew braking would be an issue at some point.
I'm going back to the shop on Monday when the shop is again nice & warm to see what I can figure out on the brakes. Any advice and/or suggestions until then would be appreciated.
Mike
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