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Re: JD 1130SE auger belt turns over then comes off-HELP-Only about 10hours on machine
#1 Feb 5, 2011 11:40 am |
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The only thing I can figure is the pulleys are misaglined and as it is used the belt had undue pressure on one side causing it to wear unevenly. I aligned the pulleys by moving the big lower pulley . Had to move it about a 1/4" and replaced the belt with a kevlar replacement . I really won,t know until I get some hours on it
Gary
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Re: JD 1130SE auger belt turns over then comes off-HELP-Only about 10hours on machine
#2 Jan 16, 2011 2:33 pm |
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I checked everything and all looks good. I took the belt off and when you look at and sight down the top you see a definate angle. It seems to me that something has been misaligned from new and has been imposing a sideways force on the belt. As it wore it just then rolls over. I moved the auger big pulley out about a 1/8" and it seems pretty well aligned now. I replaced the belt and works ok. I guess I will have to wait to put some use on the machine before I know if that fixed it. I was quit surprised to read in other posts that many users experceince slippage that seems to be caused by water dripping on the friction disc. Now that I have seen the design first hand I see the issue.
The belt issue is quit frustrating as I replaced my 25 year old blower with this JD to get away from maintenance. The JD was about twice the price of others but I thought I was buying a good maintenance free machine.
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JD 1130SE auger belt turns over then comes off-HELP-Only about 10hours on machine
#3 Jan 16, 2011 8:13 am |
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Bought the machine late 2008 but had little snowfall 2008 and 2009. All was fine until this year . About the 3rd time I used it the auger belt came off. Put it on, looked for cause, moved the belt guide closer,but came off again. It appears the belt first turns inside out on the pulleys then jumps off. One thing I noticed is that the engine drive pulley and auger drive pulley are not in the same plane. When I put a strait edge on both outside edges of one pulley and extend the strait edge to the other pulley it appears one of the pulleys would need to be tilted a little to get alignment. Not sure if this is causal but if it is I am not sure how to correct other than shimming one side of the engine to tilt it.Any suggestions. A search of this site does not seem to indicate this is a common issue.
Gary
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