Zephrant
Silver Member
One thing I didn't like about my used JD2210, was that I had to press really hard on the HST pedal to go "full speed". I looked at it and the pedal was bottoming out on the plastic deck. When I pushed harder the rubber on the pedal mashed and the deck gave a little, which gave me another 1-2MPH. Pretty significant when I was only going 4-6 MPH to start with.
I looked at it and there did not seam to be any adjustments to the linkages. It did have those plates between the arms and the pedals though. I thought they might be for short people, to make the pedals closer, but taking them off made the problem worse. I messed around for a while and ended up swapping the plates around a little. That and a little grinder work got it so that when I push the forward pedal down, the arm moves the lever all the way to the hard stop on the transmission. The down-side is that the reverse pedal might not go all the way down now, but it is 90% or better.
My high speed is much faster now and easy on the leg. Before I'd slow down as my leg muscles wore down.
I figure I picked up at least 2MPH, maybe more. Significant when I go up/down the 1/4 mile drive. I'll clock it when I get a chance to drive down the road a 1/2 mile and see what I'm at now.
I looked at it and there did not seam to be any adjustments to the linkages. It did have those plates between the arms and the pedals though. I thought they might be for short people, to make the pedals closer, but taking them off made the problem worse. I messed around for a while and ended up swapping the plates around a little. That and a little grinder work got it so that when I push the forward pedal down, the arm moves the lever all the way to the hard stop on the transmission. The down-side is that the reverse pedal might not go all the way down now, but it is 90% or better.
My high speed is much faster now and easy on the leg. Before I'd slow down as my leg muscles wore down.
I figure I picked up at least 2MPH, maybe more. Significant when I go up/down the 1/4 mile drive. I'll clock it when I get a chance to drive down the road a 1/2 mile and see what I'm at now.
