[AT] Spam> Now AC traction booster

[David Bruce]

Charlie,
I never experienced the "walking" (maybe that came with newer models or 
the 3 point link set up - my experience was with the snap coupler)  but 
I didn't even have to watch the tractor booster gauge to know when it 
activated - when the lift arms on the D-14 were activated you got a 
specific sound so you could follow the action of the traction booster by 
the sound from the lift.  It has always amazed me how the AC engineers 
managed to reduce the weight of the D series tractors as compared to 
similar models from other brands and still keep a similar performance in 
the field.

charlie hill wrote:
> David,  one of my D-14's has a D-15 rearend with the factory 3pt and 
> traction booster.  Some bushings need to be replaced in the rock shaft 
> assembly that actuates the traction booster.  I'm hoping that one day I get 
> around to getting all of that fixed so I can see how traction booster works 
> with a 3 ph implement.
>
> Most of our farm is sandy and some of it is extremely sandy.  Back in the 
> day, I'd be plowing with the D-10 and hit a bad sandy spot.  The plow would 
> try to sink, the traction booster would kick in  but it was so sandy that 
> the tractor would begin to spin it's wheels.  Then it would do something 
> I've never read about in the manuals.  I don't know if it was supposed to do 
> it or not but the tractor would spin one wheel and stop the other and 
> alternate back and forth very quickly.  It was as if you were stomping the 
> brake pedals.  It would walk it's way right out of the soft stuff.  It was 
> kind of hard to stay in the seat!
>
> Charlie
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