lambdacore
New User
Hey there.
I just very recently bought an Oliver Super 55, it's my first tractor and let's say I have a lot to learn.
I am having issues with my tachometer.
When I got it, it just wasn't working, the needle wouldn't move when the tractor was running.
I removed the tachometer from the tractor to have a look at it.
It seems the little brass part that turns and into which the cable goes is a little difficult to turn. Well actually it was kind of stuck at first, couldn't get it to turn with my fingers, I put some grease and forced it gently to turn with pliers and now it's turning.
But let's say on a single revolution of that part, there's a place where it's more difficult to turn. So what happens when I plug the cable back in is the needle jumps up and down constantly unless I turn up the throttle to around 1600 RPM, which seems is fast enough to make the tachometer run smoothly. Any speed below that, the needle just jumps and is useless.
Is there anything I can do?
Like put a whole lot of grease and let it turn for a while?
Should I order a new tachometer assembly?
I tried to disassemble the tachometer more to check the parts inside but I could not easily remove the glass cover part so I did not force anything, scared of breaking things right now.
I join a picture of the tachometer's brass-like part I'm talking about and also of the cable end that goes into the tachometer.
Thanks a lot.
(Right so I'm having some issues here making my post, seems there's a word or something that is not acceptable and is getting my post filtered, I'm just gonna mess around with my post until it's posted. Can't seem to find the issue, gonna try without the pictures.)
I just very recently bought an Oliver Super 55, it's my first tractor and let's say I have a lot to learn.
I am having issues with my tachometer.
When I got it, it just wasn't working, the needle wouldn't move when the tractor was running.
I removed the tachometer from the tractor to have a look at it.
It seems the little brass part that turns and into which the cable goes is a little difficult to turn. Well actually it was kind of stuck at first, couldn't get it to turn with my fingers, I put some grease and forced it gently to turn with pliers and now it's turning.
But let's say on a single revolution of that part, there's a place where it's more difficult to turn. So what happens when I plug the cable back in is the needle jumps up and down constantly unless I turn up the throttle to around 1600 RPM, which seems is fast enough to make the tachometer run smoothly. Any speed below that, the needle just jumps and is useless.
Is there anything I can do?
Like put a whole lot of grease and let it turn for a while?
Should I order a new tachometer assembly?
I tried to disassemble the tachometer more to check the parts inside but I could not easily remove the glass cover part so I did not force anything, scared of breaking things right now.
I join a picture of the tachometer's brass-like part I'm talking about and also of the cable end that goes into the tachometer.
Thanks a lot.
(Right so I'm having some issues here making my post, seems there's a word or something that is not acceptable and is getting my post filtered, I'm just gonna mess around with my post until it's posted. Can't seem to find the issue, gonna try without the pictures.)
