John Deere 820

[jenkinsph]

yep thats right and when my 820 is clean it will unlock with a brake or when you step off the locks heal plate. But when i start my annuel mowing the grass is 2-3 ft high and the tops are covered in this floating fuzzy cotton crap that almost acts/looks like a dandylion fuzzy top kids blow on. and that stuff gets everywhere. I clean off the side grills about every hour and the airfilter housing every time i get ready to start the deere. and the hole in the frame just infront of the radiator just sucks all that fuzzy stuff up into the rad. that inturn starts to heat up the deere. so i have to scoop out all that stuff and then blow air from the back to the front of the rad to blow out all the fuzzys. and the fuzzys pile up on the foot floor boards and inturn make all the controls a bit less free moving. if i had running water out there it would be just a fast bath from the hose but i end up having to get a 5 gal bucket and go down to the creek or lake and then flood the poor thing with water. but its just a part of the way that whole job goes.

Can you cut this before it gets so tall or tops out? Might not take much more time overall.

 

[cannedman]

Well I didn't do something right. When I put rockshaft cover back on and started the tractor the PTO works great but the lift won't work. It comes up but won't go down. I took the cover back off but I can't see what I did wrong.

 

[jenkinsph]

There is a bolt with a small tab in the center of the rock shaft cover that you can access beneath the seat, This is the rate of drop control and it works independently of the rockshaft control lever. If you screwed this in tight it will still allow the arms to go up but will not let them go down. You use this adjustment to control how fast the implement is allowed to drop. Adjust it so that it akes about 2 seconds to fall from fully up to the ground. You adjust this for various implement weights, keeps from damaging the implements. Turn this counter clockwise to open the valve.


This would be pictured as #9,

 

[cannedman]

I tried moving that but it did not change anything. What does number 7 do and does it attach to anything?

 

[Tx Jim]

#7 controls the pressure and return valve in RS piston housing.

 

[cannedman]

I figured out my problem. I did not have any weight on the arms to pull the lift down. Everything is working now. Thanks to everyone who helped.

Have a great day.

 

[jenkinsph]

Are you going to change out the clutch?

I plan on moving my 820 back into town so I can do some touch ups and minor maintenance/repairs this week.

 

[cannedman]

Yes I changed out both clutches the pressure plate and throw out bearing. I took all of the parts to Kentucky Clutch near Louisville and he charged me $175.00 for everything including smoothing out the flywheel. I really learned alot by doing this myself plus saving about $3000.00.

 

[jenkinsph]

Good deal:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Now you can run it for awhile to fix any leaks or other issues then do a detailed repaint. That will be a nice tractor.