[AT] 430V update

Spencer Yost yostsw at atis.net
Tue Oct 3 21:20:24 PDT 2017


Couple of things:

First: Great story Farmer!   One of the differences between my experience and those experiences of list members elsewhere is that I have always worked small projects and small farms. I never spend more than six hours on the tractor,  and even then maybe only on a few days in a row, at a time.   I found the stories where tractors work for days on on end immensely interesting.  I once ran a forklift for days on end moving equipment between warehouses but that doesn't count because I couldn't light my cigarette on the exhaust manifold, which seems to be a common theme. (-;

Second:  sorry for the email outage for about 2 days.  I had an Internet outage at my place. It's resolved for ATIS but I still have some other outstanding issues related to the ISP network configuration that is pure @;;:;^>.  These issues are big enough that I may accelerate some changes I have been making to the mailing list and website. So stay tuned for those.

Third:  I don't think the WD-40 trick will work with this particular set up. The dash and throttle lever has the   friction setup. The spring on the governor linkage up front is what seems to be pulling it.  I am pretty sure that spring needs more resistance and I need more friction, but now that you have mentioned it I will look and study more carefully just in case I am wrong and "need to cool my jets" too :-)

Spencer Yost

> On Oct 3, 2017, at 5:12 PM, Carl Gogol <cgogol at twcny.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> Spencer
> Here is something else you might try-  Have an Allis Chalmers 914H garden
> tractor that has a friction type throttle lever. About a year after I bought
> (1985) it I was complaining to my neighbor who was the dealer that it was
> loose and not staying in position.
> 
> He came over to fix it with a can of WD-40 and took the hood off to get to
> the friction disks.  Instead of tightening the pack he starts to spray the
> WD-40 onto the top of the friction pack. I told him I wanted more friction,
> not less, probably with a little excitement in my voice.  He told me in
> perhaps kind words to cool my jets.  
> 
> Counter intuitive, but the throttle held position and worked great for years
> afterwards.  Still have to make that repair every 5-10 years though.  Might
> work on the 430V.
> Carl
> 
>>> The throttle lever will not hold    idle, nor will it hold wide-open. It
>>> quickly drifts off in both cases.  I had this problem with my John 
>>> Deere
>> B
>>> as well. One of these days I'm going to have to learn how to fix that.
>>> 
>>> Spencer Yost
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> As a kid I put a half zillion hours on a new Deere 40-C. The throttle 
>> lever on it got to creeping to where you could not run at full 
>> throttle unless you held it down with a tarp strap. Not knowing what 
>> else to try my father handed me a small medicine bottle of salt water 
>> with an eye-dropper in it and had me occasionally drip a tiny amount 
>> of it in the crack at the base of the throttle lever where it pivoted. 
>> I don't know what the proper fix is but that cured that one and it 
>> didn't give any more trouble.  (shrug)  :-)
> 
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