JD830 Clutch Problems

I have a North American JD830 which is all of a sudden having clutch problems. I have two adjustments under my pedal, one for just the engine, and the other for engine and PTO. I always leave it in engine and PTO, however now I can only drive at a crawl and with any up hill terrain it acts as if the clutch were engaged and rolls back down. I adjusted the pedal to engine only, and it runs, drives, and shifts like normal. Ive spent two days adjusting this clutch with the yoke, and cannot find the sweet spot. All my fluids, screens, and filters have been cleaned/replaced. What am I missing? Is my clutch bad, even though it drives normal when adjusted to just the engine? Also note this has worked perfectly until I had to pull start it. Did I mess something up Pull starting it?

Thanks in advance,
William

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Pull starting a JD 830 utility tractor shouldn't harm anything if task was performed correctly. My guess is you're going to need to R&R clutch plates but maybe some other forum member has a better solution.

Hello William welcome to YT! What gear did you have it
in when you pull started it. Was it low gear? Did you
pull it pretty fast before you let out the clutch to start
the engine turning? If so you can spin the clutch plate
at a very high speed putting a lot of centrifugal force
on the clutch plate lining. Then when it starts engaging
as the clutch lining touches the flywheel the added
stress makes it come apart or rip off of the metal
center. What may have happened is one side or the
other may have came off so one side still drives. After
this you would have noticed a big change in the clutch
adjustment. If this is the case if you put it in a mid
speed gear and let the clutch out then apply heavy
braking to the point of lugging the engine down I would
expect the clutch to slip. I am more familiar with this in
car and trucks where someone has pulled a vehicle to
start it and they go 20 - 30 mph in low gear. I tell you
what that clutch gets to turning some RPMs. ALWAYS
place the machine being pulled to start in one of the
higher gears. I would suggest you buy a service
manual for your tractor and properly set both the drive
and PTO clutches per the manual. An IT manual as
shown in the link is a good starting place. Then see
what happens. If it slips under the test described
above and the clutch is set properly, there is an
apparent problem with you clutch.
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