Hello everybody.
I've just bought a Arion 540 year 2008, after using it for a few hours I've noticed that it rolls a little bit sluggish. like when I stop in a slight uphill it would start to roll backwards but just a few cm and then stop. At first I thought that it was because of the 4wd being engaged but it does it even whit it switched off. I have lifted both back wheels off the ground and turned the wheels by hand. With both wheels off the ground and engine running turning one wheel the movement will go through the differential and the other wheel will turn the opposite direction. The force to turn the wheels is a bit more than I would have expected but not hard, if I do the same thing on the front wheels it's significantly easier to turn and the pinion gear and driveshaft would turn rather than the differentials inner gears. Now if I block one of the back wheels so that the pinion gear has to turn I still can manage to turn it but it gets hard, I could not turn it by standing on the side anymore but by standing behind it and pulling on the ribs of the tyre I could still turn it. Now of course the pinion has to turn by double speed because one of the back wheels standing still, but I think that It feels to heavy to turn the wheel. The question is what makes the wheels heavy to turn? There's no unusual noises coming from the back end. My suspicion is that something with the brakes is dragging, maybe the handbrake that sits on the pinion axle, i'm thinking something like a warped steel disc. The tractor has the same gearbox and backend as the Massey 6400-series. Does anyone here have some experience with something like this?
// Joel
I've just bought a Arion 540 year 2008, after using it for a few hours I've noticed that it rolls a little bit sluggish. like when I stop in a slight uphill it would start to roll backwards but just a few cm and then stop. At first I thought that it was because of the 4wd being engaged but it does it even whit it switched off. I have lifted both back wheels off the ground and turned the wheels by hand. With both wheels off the ground and engine running turning one wheel the movement will go through the differential and the other wheel will turn the opposite direction. The force to turn the wheels is a bit more than I would have expected but not hard, if I do the same thing on the front wheels it's significantly easier to turn and the pinion gear and driveshaft would turn rather than the differentials inner gears. Now if I block one of the back wheels so that the pinion gear has to turn I still can manage to turn it but it gets hard, I could not turn it by standing on the side anymore but by standing behind it and pulling on the ribs of the tyre I could still turn it. Now of course the pinion has to turn by double speed because one of the back wheels standing still, but I think that It feels to heavy to turn the wheel. The question is what makes the wheels heavy to turn? There's no unusual noises coming from the back end. My suspicion is that something with the brakes is dragging, maybe the handbrake that sits on the pinion axle, i'm thinking something like a warped steel disc. The tractor has the same gearbox and backend as the Massey 6400-series. Does anyone here have some experience with something like this?
// Joel
