Re: Fogging Tachometer / Hour Meter

Posted by dgoddard on October 18, 2015 at 17:48:06 from (104.245.136.182):

In Reply to: Fogging Tachometer / Hour Meter posted by dgoddard on October 13, 2015 at 15:03:03:

Well I got the tachometer / hour meter reinstalled no thanks to the tractor being designed to accommodate small Japanese hands. Getting a US standard size hand between the fuel tank and Instrument panel while holding a tiny nut and tiny lock washer and trying to put it on a threaded stud without dropping and losing a part is no fun. Just getting both fasteners together too about 15 minutes of careful fiddling braille style. Access is also so awkward as to make judging torque on those nuts too difficult. I settled for "probably tight enough" and then used some penetrating grade screw sealant, and a long thin screw driver to apply it; to make sure they did not fall off due to vibration in a year or two. Nevertheless. the unit now works and the lens is brilliantly clear.

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But speaking of small Japanese hands, I was wondering if other owners of Japanese tractors may have the same problem that I have. While I cannot fault the generally high quality of the workmanship on this tractor, this is not the first time I have suspected that the design may not accommodate average American male body size as well as it might.

I have noticed that while dismounting the tractor that my left foot is somewhat entrapped, between the transmission housing, the clutch pedal and the fender. To dismount without risk of injuring my foot, the routine is as follows.

-- Stand up on the foot plates.

-- Place right foot atop the transmission housing.

-- Pivot on right foot while....

-- Lifting left foot from between pedal, transmission and fender.

-- Swing left foot backwards.

-- Lower left foot below clutch pedal.

-- Reinsert left toe under clutch pedal onto the foot plate .

-- Move the right toe to the left side of the transmission housing top.

-- Grab the steering wheel on the left and fender mounted assist handle on the right.

-- Lower right foot to the ground as you back off of the tractor.

-- Remove left foot from foot plate and set on ground.

At first I tried going off the tractor forwards as I remember doing on the Ford 8N that I learned to drive on. I can do that with this small tractor, but I find my arms being pulled far enough behind me so as to hurt my shoulders and my left foot did not always cleanly disengage from its entrapment. This caused me to develop the above scenario in order to avoid wrenching my shoulder or doing a face plant due to tripping over the clutch pedal. My foot is just too big to escape through the gap between the clutch pedal and the fender reliably and unless I get it outboard of the clutch pedal there is just not enough room on the foot plate to pivot on it. I am only 5'11" and know quite a few guys and a woman or two who are significantly larger.

And while I am complaining about a few other features of this otherwise well designed and built tractor:----------

The first deficiency I felt compelled to correct was that there was no provision for a tool box. Since I do not have a front end loader and no plans to acquire one, nor an under belly implement. I used the mounting holes in the side of the tractor along with some angle iron, machining and welding to come up with a way to mount an "ammo can" conveniently and mostly out of the way in a sturdy fashion, as shown here:



Now if I need to perform field maintenance at the back of the property I do not have a long walk for basic tools. I am wondering if small Japnese farms such as might use a tractor of this size are small enough that they do not regard field maintenance as occurring far enough from home to justify a toolbox such as this.

But for all my nit picking, I do regard this as a very worthwhile tractor. The fuel efficiency seems to be fabulous!

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