a clunking noise in the left rear tire of the litt

Had a chance yesterday to investigate, and did find that once I got the wheel off the tractor, the rim bolts were loose and had caused the rim to shift slightly on the wheel. Once I reset the eccentric bolts and tightened everything up nice and snug, the clunking went away.

I didn't have the time to pull the pans, check the gears in the final drive and replace the oil. (I promise to do this this winter when there will be more time), but there didn't seem to be any play in the bearings or any excessive endplay in the gears, so I'm just convinced that the problem lay in the rim/wheel bolts.

Thanks again to all who wrote. Linda of New York, hope this answers your question. Write to me for further details on what I did if you want.

Well, guess I'd better get back out there. Thanks again, y'all. Dave

I sure do understand about "work calling"! :)

Really glad to hear that you found the problem. And it sounds like you came up with a good solution too! That's great!

Well....guess I'll mosey along for now. Thanks for letting me know. Take care,

dave

Rob

You did a great job of writing those instructions.

We had the same problem with our CA. You should mention that you DON'T HAVE TO remove the wheel to tighten the rim. You can just tighten it by rolling the tractor ahead and back.

I do like Trevor's idea about not having to remove the wheel. It is safer (remember always!!! safety first!!) and will get the job done.

I was taking the wheel off, because I wanted to check to see if there was a possibility of there being a problem with the final drives, and I had never encountered any of these problems before, so it was a double-check, but I most certainly agree that tightening the bolts without removing the wheel is the safest way to go!

Let me know how it works out.

Dave

Well Dave's instructions are very good and you can basically use his. But to avoid taking the wheel off all you have to do is, after losening the nuts you position the three "clamping bolts" so that 2 are at 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock and the other is at 6. Now rotate the two top clamping bolts so that they are snug against the rim. Roll the tractor ahead so that the one on the bottom is now on the top and snug it against the rim. Now I would repeat this part of the procedure a few times to make sure you have them as tight as you can. After that tighen all the nuts back up tight and shake the tractor to see if you can feel/hear any slop in the rim.

If not then take the tractor for a short drive (the best part) and make sure that you haven't made the tire out of center to much. After the drive re tighten the nuts to make sure every thing is going to stay.

Not to hard. Once you start playing with them it will make more sense and you will quickly see what you have to do.

Just removing the out rim is how Allis expected you to change the tires not by removing the center disk so you have to be able to tighten it while on the tractor.

If your tractor only has 2 Clamp bolts just put them at the top and tighten them. Seems to me that our CA only had 2.

Hope all this helps.