1641 Noise... Help

[bobferdon]

Last season my PTO locked up, ripped out my wiring harness and the torque plate. I just put it back together this weekend.

Fired it up and put it into gear and there is a loud racket that sounds like bb's in a blender.

It goes into gear and seems to move. It is up on jack stands.

Any thoughts on what this noise might be?

Thanks...

 

[Bob_Bainbridge]

My first thought would be to double check the PTO adjustments. You should have .020-.025 clearance between the disk and rotor all the way around when disengaged. Does it sound the same engaged or disengaged? Does it disengage correctly?

Bob B.

 

[bobferdon]

I just put a new PTO on it. It did it with the last PTO on it also.

It only does it when I disengage the brake and start to move. Sometimes it will do it when idling with the brake off. As soon as I come up to speed it goes away.

 

[ge000]

the topic is where i am today, on my 3184 it has a bellows that puts pressure on the 2 pto belts but I have a problem the front belt comes off the double pulley.i removed the heat shield and the top belt guard to get at the the belts, i removed the front belt from the pulley and all is well I just need to know a remedy on keeping the front belt from getting thrown off and chewed up or should I just keep cutting using the rear pulley groved belt?
thanks all Wayne ars N4VGY