Lubing where the sun don't shine and the manual doesn't tell you to lube.

[newbury]

About a year ago my '95 M4700 shifter bound up. Would not go from High forward into anything.
About a month ago my B7610 PTO started "binding", it took moderate force to lower the 3 point arms. Than last Saturday it refused to let me lower the 3 point arms.

On both tractors my first thought were of $$ flying out of my wallet for repair.

In both cases it ended up just greasing the right places.

On the M4700 liberal axle grease on points where the forks bend worked, on the B7610 there's a place where the shift cable is inside a tube, which in turn slides through a standoff. Sprayed w/ a lube it now works fine.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

Fluid Film is a wonderful thing. :thumbsup:

 

[Wagtail]

I hear ya mate. I've taken to periodically spraying every conceivable moving 'joint' and 'thingy' with a wee bit of lanolin-based lubricant.I got into the habit after I had initial problems setting/releasing the parking brake = sprayed and the whole mechanism worked perfectly.

Then there's the non-updated owners manual that drove me to (near) madness searching for a couple of grease nipples around the front wheels. Even the boys at the 'shop' couldn't find them; turns out that they've been eliminated. :confused3:

My first 50hr service was included in my price... I watched the bloke, asking pertinent questions/tricks-of-the-trade stuff; he proceeded to grease 2 nipples under the Fwd/Rev pedals that weren't in the book.

Ya live & learn, eh?