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- CBIslander
Ok, so I got the tractor back together without incident. It all went pretty smoothly.
Tried it out on the icy driveway and... stuck! Front wheels spinning and neither rear wheel doing anything. Engaged clutch and applied the diff lock and at least the rhs wheel turned but the lhs just sat there (I hadn't put the chains back on the rhs wheel yet after the repair so it just spun there on the spot).
It seems to me that the halfshaft on the lhs is also broken! I jacked it up on that side and with the tractor in gear i can freely turn the wheel by hand. I can see in through the brake linkage that the discs are turning. Next I'll drain the fluid again and confirm that there's no movement at the diff.
I'm baffled as to what could have caused this! Two broken halfshafts can't be a coincidence. Something must have gone seriously wrong to cause such damage. I want to know what the cause was so I don't break any more. Could having the diff lock applied accidentally have caused this somehow?
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Adam
Tried it out on the icy driveway and... stuck! Front wheels spinning and neither rear wheel doing anything. Engaged clutch and applied the diff lock and at least the rhs wheel turned but the lhs just sat there (I hadn't put the chains back on the rhs wheel yet after the repair so it just spun there on the spot).
It seems to me that the halfshaft on the lhs is also broken! I jacked it up on that side and with the tractor in gear i can freely turn the wheel by hand. I can see in through the brake linkage that the discs are turning. Next I'll drain the fluid again and confirm that there's no movement at the diff.
I'm baffled as to what could have caused this! Two broken halfshafts can't be a coincidence. Something must have gone seriously wrong to cause such damage. I want to know what the cause was so I don't break any more. Could having the diff lock applied accidentally have caused this somehow?
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Adam
