Yes, I just check it and one finger is almost twice as high. I laid the entire assembly together and hand tightened the outer pressure plate to the inner plate. If I tighten it down I think the relationship will be the same which suggest you have nailed this on the “finger” as it were. How would this happen? My tractor has 1500 hours, never a problem, is this typical?
By the way, I had the entire clutch assembly in front of the parts and service manager at John Deere In Auburn Alabama, and they made no suggestion of this. I don’t think they were dishonest, I think they just missed it.
I have ordered an entirely new assembly for about $1750, as I understand it, the clearance between the two pressure plates and finger setting are done at the factory. I think the PTO disk will be the only one loose so I will have to align that disk but not the traction disk. I have a standard car clutch alignment tool, if you have any ideas on how best to get the disk aligned that will be great!
My thought was with about 7mm left on each disk and these clearance issues, after having split my first tractor, I don’t want repeat that party in the next week or two, thus I opted for replacing everything!
I was very concerned that I had some kind of transmission vibration that was being transmitted up the shaft which would be much more difficult for me, as an amateur, to resolve.
One last point, the PTO shaft came out with the clutch but I did not hear the coupler fall into the transmission and when I put the PTO shaft back in, I can turn the rear PTO fine. Does than mean I should not be concerned that the PTO shaft coupler fell into the transmission?
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