Hi Everyone,
I stumbled across this site while trying to find info on my old Rover and have found it most helpful. I have read all the threads relating to my Rancher 2 (and all Rover threads) hoping that my problem might have been covered before, but could not find anything. I did come across a post by a member called Alwood asking how to tighten the top belt on a Rancher 2 and while members discussed the types of belts he should use to replace the ones he had taken off no one answered his question, so I thought I would help anyone with the same issue by answering it here because Alwood's thread is now closed.
The top belt can be tightened by sliding the engine forward, you need to undo 2 bolts either side of the engine they are located on the chassis rail, the at the front of the engine again at the chassis rail there is a threaded screw by turning this screw it moves the engine forward, because the engine is mounted on its own sub-chassis that slides within the main chassis, once the belt it tight you need to tighten the 4 bolts back up.
The problem that I have is my mower will not move, I select gear but it will not move, I put it in gear with the engine turned off and it will not move and will only free wheel when in neutral, so the gears are being selected. I have taken the top cover off the gearbox and taken the gears out and the teeth and gain look in good order. So then I looked under the gearbox and the bottom pulley (the following numbers will be from the parts list that I downloaded from this site) item # 31 A07556 Pulley-X (11055) it tight up against the underside of the gearbox mounting plate stopping it from rotating. I have undone the 2 bolts which hold the pully in place from the parts list they are item # 53 A02082 (Use X02082K and managed to move the pulley down away from the gearbox mounting plate and then tightened them back up again, this did allow the wheels to move when I started her up again and selected gear, but the pulley moved back up tight against the gearbox mounting plate again.
So looking at the gearbox parts list the following parts seem to be in the location of where the bottom pulley if mounted.
Item # 30 X780086 Bearing Needle
Item # 45 (no parts list description)
Item # 18 X776135 Shaft Input
Item # 29 X780072 Race Thrust
Item # 32 X792035 Ring Retaining
My question is will the failure of any of these parts cause the bottom pulley to press up tight against the gearbox mounting plate?
Today I am going to try and remove the bottom pulley and see if I can see anything that might be broken above it and I am going to look at drilling holes in the side of the Shaft Input part where the 2 pulley bolts tighten against it, I am hoping these holes will help locate the bolts and stop the pulley from moving up tight against the gearbox mounting plate.
I am looking for any advice, because finding parts for this old gearbox might be hard if any of the above are faulty, the Shaft Input must be still in one piece because the wheels did move when I adjusted the pulley, so I am hoping my idea of trying to stop the pulley from moving upwards will work.
