zeek87
New member
I am looking for some help regarding the cruise control. I just recently bought the tractor. The dealer is 4 hours away so I emailed him a list of issues to fix before sending. One issue was the cruise control would not work. When you move the lever, the hst pedal moves to appear that the linkage is alright but when you take your hand off the lever, it quickly slides back up out of position. Well for some reason the tech that worked on it just thought the issue was the display which was a different pto issue and he fixed the switch. There were a few other things they missed from the list but they have been top notch about getting them rectified.
After discussing the issue with the manager, he asked if I would just look under there to see if the tension spring/bolt needed tightened. He said they mostly loosen them on rental tractors (which is one I bought) to keep any inexperienced user from doing something stupid. I looked at the workshop manual and crawled under to find the entire spring missing. I am going to order a new spring.
While the tractor was off, I tried to act as the spring and pulled on the cruise lever and on the spring hook. The arm where the spring hooks into would not move. The brakes were not set. Should it have moved or won't it while shut off or is the spring just very stout? Do you think just the spring will fix this or does that lever not moving by hand cause concern?
Thank you in advance for any help.
After discussing the issue with the manager, he asked if I would just look under there to see if the tension spring/bolt needed tightened. He said they mostly loosen them on rental tractors (which is one I bought) to keep any inexperienced user from doing something stupid. I looked at the workshop manual and crawled under to find the entire spring missing. I am going to order a new spring.
While the tractor was off, I tried to act as the spring and pulled on the cruise lever and on the spring hook. The arm where the spring hooks into would not move. The brakes were not set. Should it have moved or won't it while shut off or is the spring just very stout? Do you think just the spring will fix this or does that lever not moving by hand cause concern?
Thank you in advance for any help.