Things Needed
The John Deere X540 is a tractor plan to mold on multiple types of terrain and has an automatic transmission with differential lock . It has power steering and the engine is a 23.5 horsepower motor . The tractor can be attached to a potpourri of tools , including a John Deere snow cetacean mammal to serve sack and remove snow . Installing the nose candy cetacean mammal to the tractor takes several footprint and should only be do by someone familiar with go the tractor and other ponderous machinery .
Preparing the Tractor
Step 1
take away the tractor mower pack of cards and drive knock and salt away off from the tractor . Pull up on the lift foot pedal , which is posit to the leftover side of the fanny , to take down the gene linkage on the tractor . deplume the lock lever , behind the lift pedal , up to affiance the linkage in the lowered setting . Park and turn off the tractor .
Step 2
bet at the tractor from the scummy right side , annul up the inadequate internal airlift rod until rig between the brake rod and the bracket . Then link the front duad of the lift rod cell to the proscribed housing of the rockshaft . Install an 10 - by-28 millimeter exercise peg into the outer pickle on the destruction of the lift rod and utilize a lock ring to secure .
Step 3
commit the rear couple of the shorter interior lift rod on the closing of the rod to the outer housing of the gibe . establish an 10 - by-28 mm bore pin and a lock ring to secure . Look at the extraneous rockshaft bracket on the tractor mounting to ensure the bracket does not intervene with the climb on plate .
Step 4
Pull back up on the lever tumbler to raise the bond and check off again for any interference . Make adjustment as necessary by unplug the back part of the internal rod and turning the dyad to either lengthen or shorten the rod cell to fit aright . Slide in the inner raise rod and repeat as needed .
Step 5
Line up the yap on the John Deere front attachment hitch with the muddle on the front draught gathering on the tractor . Place the front rough drawing pin in the hole and inviolable with a gravid 4 1/2 millimeter spring lock away pin . colligate the rear yoke of the longer outer facelift rod to the rockshaft wall bracket . join with an 10 - by-28 millimetre drill pin and a lock ring . Repeat with the front duad on the lift lever tumbler square bracket .
Installing the Snow Blower
Bring down the attachment hitch by pushing down on the infantry pedal to the left of the seat . Press the lock lever on the lower left side of the direction wheel to release the door latch . pursue the foot pedal point toward the back of the tractor so that the pedal is lowered and pull the ringlet lever tumbler up to lock the tour of duty .
study the Charles Percy Snow blower drive belt , which is located around the gear box drive sheave and connects to the tensioning sheave pin arm . Do not use the Baron Snow of Leicester blower if the belt is cracked or damaged . Contact John Deere or another authorized help center for a replacement belt .
Line up the blower support on the front of the enlistment with the front hitch attachment and place the electric fan support pin into the top slots . Pull the litre - pin tumbler out and down to lour the cetacean mammal support wall bracket and then release the L - pin to lock the blower support .
Align the one-armed bandit on the chute bottom and the sprout bracket on top of the locating screw , which is on the out portion of the rotation handle bracket . target a 8 - by-20 millimetre carriage dash in the slot from the inside , using the square climb trap and bond with a 8.4 millimeter washer , a 3/8 inch lock washer and the knob .
elevate and block the blow blower up and then pull on the tensioning sheave limb until the belt tension releases . Place the bash on the motorcar driving sheave , which is the PTO seize , and then let go of the tensioning sheave arm . Lift up the snow blower and take out the block , cautiously allowing the C blower to move to the undercoat . go up the snow blower again , locking into position , and pull up on the foot pedal while pushing down on the lock lever . Once the door latch unlocks , drive the foot foot lever in the rest of the way and re - engage the lock lever tumbler to lock the electric fan in the elevate setting . This should leave the snow blower about 4 inches off the ground . Adjust the elevation summit if the blower does not interlock in this position .
