Re: (ET) Steering skipping

["Harold Zimmerman - Clean Power Supply" <cleanpower att net>]

 Doug,
 There is a pretty good chance that either the gear on the steering wheel 
shaft is worn from skipping or that the same may be true of the fan gear. 
On top of that, the fan gears are extremely prone to becoming loose on the 
shaft, allowing it to flex forward and consequently skipping. If the fan 
gear is loose but both gears are in good condition, the fan gear should be 
welded solid to the shaft. I do this routinely when rebuilding tractors. 
Then the shaft with the fan gear on it must be forced back against the 
steering wheel shaft gear and shims installed until you can just barely 
get the cotter pin in anymore.
 Sincerely,
 Harold Zimmerman
 Clean Power Supply
 Ephrata PA
 717-859-4234
 Supplier of parts for General Electric Elec-Trak, New Idea and Wheel 
Horse Electric Tractors.

On October 11, 2016 at 8:53pm -0400, you wrote:

>My Alltraxed E15 is having trouble again with the steering - hard to move
>and skips if you push it too hard.  A number of years ago I had the same
>problem and fixed it by following the steps I found in the archive.  I've
>searched the archive again, and all I found was this:
>
>            If your steering is skipping, here is what you might want to
>try:
>
>1) Loosen the bolts on the pillow bearing up at the front of the sector
>shaft. This is important.
>2) Loosen the collar on the steering wheel and pull it out of the steering
>block at the bottom.
>3) Take off all the shims and the cotter pin from the sector shaft. This 
>is
>really important as otherwise you will never get things lined up right.
>4) Push the sector shaft forward till it hits the front wheel beam. Get 
>some
>slack.
>5) Loosen the two bolts that hold the steering block. They're the closest
>ones to the block; the other 4 hold the box to the tractor.
>6) Blow out the crud behind the block and push it all the way back. Go all
>the way.
>7) Tighten the steering block bolts.
>8) Put in the sector shims and cotter
>9) Put the steering shaft gear back into the block. It should mesh 
>tightly.
>10) Tighten the bolts on the pillow bearing.
>That should do it. My problem was if I tried to tighten the block bolts 
>with
>the washers and cotter in place it would never line up snugly. Skip skip.
>Then when I put it together without loosening the pillow bearing bolts it
>would bind there.
>Fun.
>Chris
>
>Unfortunately I didn't save the date of this post.  But this seems more
>complicated than my very limited recollection of what I did previously 
>that
>involved adding shims, which cured the problem back then.  I have a better
>recollection of finally finding the shims (brass load bearings or 
>something
>like that) in the plumbing department at the hardware store, than I do of
>putting them on the tractor.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>I have a jpg of the steering assembly (surprisingly called "steering
>assembly.jpg"), which I also found in the archives.  I've tried to follow
>these instructions looking at the picture, but the names are different.
>What are the "pillow bearing", the "sector shaft", the "steering block" 
>(and
>I'm only on step 2!), front wheel beam.  I might be able to figure it out 
>if
>I actually went out and looked at the tractor, but it's cold and dark, 
>and I
>thought I'd try the experts out there before it got colder and darker, as 
>it
>will be very hard to turn once the snowblower is on it!
>
>Thanks,
>Doug McCorkle
>
>Alltraxed E15
>
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