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trbomax
Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 133 Starvation Lake, Mi |
2005-04-16 109939
was back draging a lawn and the bucket joystick came off in my hand ! Seems the tiny littlepiece of 1/8" x 3/4" strap that its screwed to broke right thru the screw hole. Imagine that ! Is mine the only one [?] on a unit with 189 hrs ?
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brokenarrow
Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 1288 Wisconsin |
2005-04-17 109967
A hundred different things could be the cause of this. I would bet your not the first to have a threaded rod bust or strip out. With that many hours on it and no problems before, sounds like something happened recently. Any recent mishaps on or around the joy stick? ....
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trbomax
Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 133 Starvation Lake, Mi |
2005-04-18 110004
No, its just a real flimsy piece of 1/8 x 5/8 thats welded to the end of a 5/8 rod that controls the valve.then they drilled a 3/16 hole thru it to attach the joystick. Not much material left to hold it on. ....
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oneace
Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 1490 south central pa Pics |
2005-04-19 110093
No you are not the first one to have that happen. You have the deluxe joy stick and with alt of use the will break. The hi/low buttons are nice but I would rather have the standard stick. ....
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KarlS30914
Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 1 Clifton, VA |
2005-05-05 110731
Mine broke off at less than 100 hrs. Luckily, I was able to pull off the bellows and figure out what happened so I could raise the bucket valve enough with pliers to get the tractor out of the field and back to the barn while awaiting the replacement part. Not hard to fix, but a royal pain. It's been another 50 hrs, and it's feeling loose again. Gonna order another replacement part to have around when it fails again. ....
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