Locking rear axle GC 1705

[WranglerX]

Walks away shaking head .....

Dale

 

[GeneV]

Ok, bye! Don't forget to get that diffy lock checked out, you prolly broke it.

 

[kenmbz]

Diff lock on my 1720 goes in pretty smooth too, and it certainly works as I go from one wheel slipping to both wheels turning (I had thin mud). Getting into and out of 4wd is painful sometimes though. Wants a flat surface with a little forward/back (gently) sometimes to disengage.

 

[Peter 315]

Diff lock on my 1720 goes in pretty smooth too, and it certainly works as I go from one wheel slipping to both wheels turning (I had thin mud). Getting into and out of 4wd is painful sometimes though. Wants a flat surface with a little forward/back (gently) sometimes to disengage.

Lift the front wheels off the ground and it will be easy to take out of 4wd

 

[kenmbz]

Makes sense. Didn't think of that

 

[GeneV]

Diff lock on my 1720 goes in pretty smooth too, and it certainly works as I go from one wheel slipping to both wheels turning (I had thin mud). Getting into and out of 4wd is painful sometimes though. Wants a flat surface with a little forward/back (gently) sometimes to disengage.

I found moving range selector to neutral helps with that if it's stuck in gear.

 

[kenmbz]

I already do that to get it to release. Have hilly property, so need to get up to a flat spot before getting back on to blacktop

 

[Jimc295]

I'm thinking I have broke something in mine. I have an old Kubota B7100 and I have always engaged it while on the move but the Massey book says stop and engage. So I have engaged it while working on my driveway with a Box blade full of dirt and wheels spinning several times and now it will not hardly engage.

 

[cdaigle430]

I'm thinking I have broke something in mine. I have an old Kubota B7100 and I have always engaged it while on the move but the Massey book says stop and engage. So I have engaged it while working on my driveway with a Box blade full of dirt and wheels spinning several times and now it will not hardly engage.

Could also be a linkage adjustment? I wonder if we do damage these pins will the tell tale sign also be shavings in the filters?

 

[GeneV]

I'm thinking I have broke something in mine. I have an old Kubota B7100 and I have always engaged it while on the move but the Massey book says stop and engage. So I have engaged it while working on my driveway with a Box blade full of dirt and wheels spinning several times and now it will not hardly engage.

Need more info, doesn't engage how? Do you mean the diff lock pedal won't go all the way down, or it goes down but the wheels still spin independently?

Also, are you trying to engage it before driving into something that you think you'll get stuck in, or do you engage it when you're stuck already with the one wheel spinning?

 

[GeneV]

Ok look, let's say you're on even ground, stopped, and you wanna engage the diff lock. If you're lucky, you push down on that lock pedal and it goes all the way down, locking the differential. But let's say you push down on it, and it won't go all the way down. That's because something in there has to align for it to fully lock. Just merely driving slowly forward/back won't do that, because the rear wheels are turning at same speed. Something needs to happen there for the wheels to turn at different speeds, in turn aligning the gears or capture pin, whatever the mechanism is, which locks the differential. Generally, you need to already be stuck, with one wheel spinning. Or, another option, turn while driving slowly, which makes your outside wheel turn faster than the inside one (which is the whole point of a split differential).

 

[GeneV]

I already do that to get it to release. Have hilly property, so need to get up to a flat spot before getting back on to blacktop

Why do you have to be on flat ground for that?

 

[kenmbz]

Going to neutral, while trying to lift the lever for 4WD, while trying to keep from rolling down a hill is exciting, maybe a bit too much so for me

 

[GeneV]

Going to neutral, while trying to lift the lever for 4WD, while trying to keep from rolling down a hill is exciting, maybe a bit too much so for me

Make it boring, use your brake.

 

[kenmbz]

Then the 4wd lever won't budge , have plenty of flat areas before I get to any tarmac, so not worried about ruining any gears. I liked the suggestion of using the FEL to lift the front, will see if that makes it easier. Sometimes the lever comes right up, sometimes it just wants to piss me off.

 

[Jimc295]

OK I have moved a good big of dirt in the past few weeks and I found that if 1 tire is spinning I can press the lock pedal down and it will go to the floor and lock like it is supposed to do. When I 1st got it however I could engage it fairly easy but not now. I can however get it to work when I really need it.

 

[Peter 315]

Were you locking the diff when the tires were spinning ?

 

[Jimc295]

no, not different the only way to lock the rear together is pushing down the metal rod on the floor. Mine will not hardly lock unless the tires are spining.