[AT] 430V update

[Thomas O Mehrkam]

At least you will know the next time.

That is if you remember it. :-{

On 10/11/2017 10:17 PM, Spencer Yost wrote:
> I fixed the throttle tonight. Turns out the friction disks are just cork. I wish someone had taken a picture of my face when I picked them up at the John Deere dealer. Was feeling real stupid that I paid nearly 10 bucks for 2 cork discs I could've made in my shop in five minutes.
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> In my defense, the old ones were so compressed and glazed I believe them to be some sort of composite material. I include the pictures of the old ones below.  As you can see from the second one that when I  go ahead and break the old one I could see the fresh cork.
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> Live and learn
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> These two discs go between three pieces of metal. The middle piece of metal has a notch for a roll pin so it won't turn/spin.  Looking back that was my clue that they were too compressed. Tightening  the throttle as far as I could would not bring that notch up to the roll pin. With fresh cork, I could get that notch there with no problem. The throttle acts wonderful now.
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> Now that I can get idle and keep it with the throttle I will be able to set idle speed, and therefore be able to time the engine properly.  Not to mention actually being able to do work.
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