Posted by Gene Davis (Ga.) on March 11, 2022 at 08:06:43 from (172.242.36.29):
In Reply to: Quick trip posted by grandpa Love on March 11, 2022 at 05:14:57:
In the mid 1980's I bought a real nice 154 Cub Lo-Boy that had a factory loader on it. I bought it from a guy who was gonna clear the stumps from some small planted pines on land he had inherited. Boy did he get surprised. It didn't even have enough power to bend the bucket. All he did was tear up the drive line clutch. It was fairly new when I bought it from him and needed the clutch repaired again for the fourth time. I bought it cheap,($1,000)but the price of clutch parts was not cheap by no means almost $100.00 for the clutch driven plate that mounted on the input shaft of the transmission.
It has a very strange arrangement for the clutch being as it is at the front of the transmission on the input shaft. I got tired of trying to keep the clutch working because it had to be adjusted every time you used it much or you could not change gears with the engine running. I determined that the drive shaft coming from the engine back to the clutch disk was about 1/2 out of line to the input shaft of the trsansmission. This kept destroying the alignment so I cut the drive shaft apart about 2/3 of the way back and had a machine shop cut keyways ino the shaft then I installed 2 pillow block bearings with supports under them and a universal joint in the shaft so I could line up the input shaft correctly going into the disk and then the pressure plate fingers could be adjusted correctly plus the clutch brake could be set as specified. It is supposed to have about only about.020 clearance for it to work properly. It needs the clutch brake working correctly to stop the input shaft so you can get it into gear. Aftercdoing this it worked good for a couple of years. Another thing that I was surprised to find out was the live PTO shaft is driven by belts from the flywheel and is a reverse turning 1,800 rpm 15/16 diameter very fine splined shaft. Try finding that size pto shaft end. This is activated by a lever by the seat that has to snap in gear when it is pulled it up. It has to be kept adjusted well or it will slip and burn up the clutch plates. Implements that require a pto have to be designed for that special odd ball setup to work with this tractor. I found a NOS flail mower for it at a dealer in another town. This was a model CLB 60 Mott flail mower and it worked good as long as it did not get in high thick grass. The engine is a standard Cub and is almost bullet proof with out the water pump just the thermo-syphon cooling system. Another thing that caused concern at times was the starter/generator set up. It required a good tight fan belt or it would slip when trying to crank the engine over. Maximum out put for this set up is only 15 amps so it will not support a lot of extra electrical load such as more lights. I finally got tired of messing with it and sold it to a tractor jockey. It is a good set up for a large lawn mower or something like that.
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