Locking diff
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Locking diff
I found out this weekend that I must not have my locking diff adjusted correctly because it did not work. I had never used this tractor much because it locked up shortly after it was given to me. My point is, I looked to see if I installed it wrong, it's very inconv eniently located. I'm thinking of refabricating to make it more accessible. Any thoughts???
Its worked OK on thousands of tractors for over 40 years, why do you think it needs modification? 
Seriously though, you should not normally require any adjustment unless the pedal, link or fork has been bent/ damaged in some way. The lock only operates when one wheel is turning faster than the other and flys out when they turn at the same speed.
Seriously though, you should not normally require any adjustment unless the pedal, link or fork has been bent/ damaged in some way. The lock only operates when one wheel is turning faster than the other and flys out when they turn at the same speed.
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No, that sounds about right. 
The idea of hiding it was to comply with the law which said "dif lock engagement should not be readily easy to access or be made in such a way as to be permanently held in". Health and Safety ruling.
They were designed to make your leg ache, so you did not sit there with your foot on the pedal.
That was Fords excuse to us at the time, the designers could not have been wrong! Perish the thought.
How tractors like the Field Marshall and the J-D got away with it I don't know! But that is Health and Safety for you.
I was designing a control box some years ago, which was getting cluttered with switches.
Having seen a rival control box which used a selector switch to change the function of the main switches, I approached Health and Safety to see if I could use a similar system and got a resounding "NO"!
When I mentioned that the method was already being used and sold in the market place the comment came back "its OK for G*i*m* to do it but you cannot".
The idea of hiding it was to comply with the law which said "dif lock engagement should not be readily easy to access or be made in such a way as to be permanently held in". Health and Safety ruling.
They were designed to make your leg ache, so you did not sit there with your foot on the pedal.
That was Fords excuse to us at the time, the designers could not have been wrong! Perish the thought.
How tractors like the Field Marshall and the J-D got away with it I don't know! But that is Health and Safety for you.
I was designing a control box some years ago, which was getting cluttered with switches.
Having seen a rival control box which used a selector switch to change the function of the main switches, I approached Health and Safety to see if I could use a similar system and got a resounding "NO"!
When I mentioned that the method was already being used and sold in the market place the comment came back "its OK for G*i*m* to do it but you cannot".
Fordson Tractor Pages, now officially linked to: Fordson Tractor Club of Australia, Ford and Fordson Association and Blue Force.
Brian
Brian