Where is this shock piston on the tractor?
Another thing I notice is that its got a delay in reacting when I let off either pedal, not much but enough to make it nearly impossible to negotiate closely to anything. Twice I ran up on some rocks trying to get around behind the garage to move a load of landscape bricks. There's no such thing as a gradual take off, its either jerky or it spins the wheels and goes all out. It is variable but only from about 5 to 16 mph. Below that its sort of jerky and intermittent unless I have the throttle way down low, then its delayed a bit needing more pedal pressure to start to move.
Both forward and reverse pedals are hard to move, the fender pan flexes before the pedals start to move.
I let a neighbor borrow it to move some dirt this morning and she ran it through her garage door. She said it wouldn't stop. She's got an orange pedal drive type machine but its one of those 8 speed 'automatic' CVT transmissions, not a hydro. She didn't want to take the deck off her's so she borrowed this one. It took the garage door and track right down, never put a scratch on the tractor. I think the whole mess fell on here though.
She said she let off the pedal and it kept going so she stomped on the brake and it went full bore through the garage door.
I think she might have hit the wrong pedal or both pedals.
No harm done to the tractor but I spent all afternoon trying to put a busted up garage door back up. It finally stopped when it rode up on some bags of fertilizer she had in the garage near the door. It was still running at full speed with the back wheels off the ground when she came and got me. She was so frazzled she never thought to shut off the key. I think the right front tire hit the door first, then it tried to push through or under the door taking it off the first set of rollers. It folded the bottom panel slightly and bent the hinges on the next three panels enough to yank the rollers out of the hinges leaving the door just dangling free of the track with the tractor completely inside the garage. I had to take each hinge off and hammer them back in shape, I put a 2x4 across the bottom panel to keep it straight for now. I felt bad because she thought she broke my tractor. The worse part is that her basement steps are just ahead of where the tractor stopped, another 5 feet and she was headed downstairs through a door into her basement. The house has sort of a Bilco type basement entrance that's inside the garage vs. out in the yard. There's a set of concrete steps along the house side wall inside the garage door. If it had busted up the bags it got hung on a bit more it would have kept on going too. The back tires were only a half inch off the floor and still spinning full speed.
For me, I'm getting used to how it works, so I think I'll likely be fine with it but if the extra speed is something someone done to it, I think that needs to be turned back down. Its likely making too much pressure and will likely cause damage?
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