IH tiller

[steved]

64fleetside, I trimmed the felt thickness tonight. About 1/8". The shafts can turn a lot easier and should wear in nicely once it's on the cub. Thanks for your help!

[64fleetside]

Glad it worked, Steve. Got mine belted up, pos PTO won't disengage. My 72 y/o coffee buddy said I wouldn't like the PTO setup when he heard I bought this rig, and he is right. He had cadets way back when. Set it up using the store bought gage even. Rattles to beat the band also. Yanked it back off, but I'm done for tonight.

[J-Mech]

I prefer the old mechanical PTO's to the electric ones. Yeah, they rattle sometimes, but they are rebuildable, engage smoother, and cost far less than electric ones. Adjusting them isn't hard if you know how. Just because someone had bad luck doesn't make them bad.

[64fleetside]

The brake puck on this one is loose and rattles like crazy, and I can:t make it disengage at all. All this was trashed when I bought it, and my rebuild apparently didn't help. I'd leave it but it is pretty hard to start turning the tiller.
Seems little info on the brake style PTO, do folks trash them and use the older style w/o the added brake? I wonder if the gage is correct for the brake stuff, seems a little off.

[steved]

Not sure what could be wrong with yours. The PTO is the one thing that has actually gone fairly smooth on this project, with the great help of the guys on this board. Everything else seems to have been two steps forward and one back. Most of of the problems being of my own doing and definitely not going to going to go into details on those.

[64fleetside]

Mine has a bunch more parts added to it for the brake setup, it has a disc on the front to rub on a brake pad on the rockshaft. The brake disc center hole is what is worn and rattling like crazy. I'm sure it is a safer setup, but added parts is added trouble, IMO. I am guessing the gov't required some sort of mower braking setup, and this is what they came up with on tight budget and time constraint. My Cub guy has stuff to change it to the earlier setup, might have to go that route if this won't act right.
I have also found the rockshaft is pretty worn from the braking action pushing it sideways, moves about half inch or more to the right. Not sure what I will have to do there.
Yours looks real good, Steve.

[64fleetside]

Evidently I had the clutch too tight, I pulled it back off and backed off the tension at the advice of a member here and it disengages fine now. I know I won't use that gauge again, just adjust it by hand, I set it 3 times using the gauge, never worked but worked fine adjusted by feel. I added a couple washers to shim the rockshaft from sliding sideways and redid the mule drive using a couple of Primeline 705482 pulleys. These are listed as heavy duty, we will see. I welded the mule drive pulley arms together and ditched the spring. This enabled the belt to tighten more.

[64fleetside]

I have tillage-I'm gonna hit the garden again this evening, as rain is coming in tonight.
Tills really well, even if the tines are almost gone. Still gotta finish the belt guide and score a belt guard.

[Sam Mac]

Sweet! Tillage with no bad sounds is a good thing.

[64fleetside]

The thing seems pretty quiet, there is some slight growl type noise from the gearbox that can be heard w/a mechanics stethescope(prolly just the straight cut gears) and a slight rhythmic click in the chain case, but after running it in the garden nothing was warm/hot, even the PTO clutch was cool enough to touch. I used freeze plugs in the unused holes in the tine assy, might keep out some dirt/rust, but I sure hope to never take it apart again. There's about half a bottle of anti sieze inside the tine tubes also. But it won't sit out in the rain anymore, either. Some of the lube has found its way out of the middle bearing, so I reckon I have enough in it. I ended up with nearly quart and a half of lube inside the chain case, but I never could find a spec.