[AT] Good Tractor Day!

[Andy Glines]

I was visiting with Larry Goss at the SIAM show a couple of weeks ago and we 
were talking about the DODGE clutch on my Gard'n Mast'r tractor.  I was 
telling Larry about the problem it had breaking over-center and that I had 
it with me when a local guy named Don Hoing walked up and overheard our 
discussion.  Don volunteered that he has a tractor like with the same 
clutch!  I asked him to hang aroud a minute while I went to get the clutch.  
Don confimed that mine was the same as his and made a repair suggestion.  We 
also traded contact info.  This fellow had really made my day.  My advise to 
others to bring their mysterious problems to a show (because someone there 
may know the answer) had payed off.  But wait, it gets better!  The next day 
Don comes back to the show with some spare clutch parts, an instruction book 
for the tractor AND.... the instruction sheet for the DODGE clutch complete 
with a section view.  I take a few notes that I think will help get me on 
track.  It gets better still!  Don offers to copy his literature and mail it 
to me.  When I got the stuff in the mail I immediately took the clutch 
instructions to the shop and found that it was assembled in the wrong order. 
  I reassembled the clutch and operated it on the work bench.  This time the 
clutch locked in with a nice "snap" (big grin).  A couple of days later I 
put the clutch back on the tractor.  Time for the moment of truth...  The 
typically ornary wisconsin starts on the 3rd pull after sitting for a year, 
this must be a sign.  I hop on, engage the clutch, and let go of the handle. 
  The tractor keeps moving the clutch stays engaged all by itself (really 
big silly grin).  It only took 17 years of tinkering but it finally goes all 
by itself.

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