https://vhgmc.co.uk/members/boycey/activity/ Activity feed for JOhn Boyce. Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:50:23 +0100 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 78f84425e73961ae14637bf3b79937cd https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/ransomes-motor-triple-cutter-drive-clutch/#post-39912 Mon, 05 Sep 2022 09:26:27 +0100 Many thanks for this. I believe I have ruined a perfectly good set of plates!
However the problem was definitely in the clutch. You could hear a metallic gratingf noise `nd the drive pulley to the V belt would stop turning. I am guessing it was a combination of the birrs and the wear to the metal counter-plates that was causing it, and simply…[Read more]

]]> 9c562933952971ad238f11b23c2f9b18 https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/ransomes-motor-triple-cutter-drive-clutch/#post-39906 Sun, 04 Sep 2022 13:11:47 +0100 I’ve just remeasured more accurately and there is still a gapoing question…
Withe the 10 intermediate plates slipped on the shaft, there remains 12mmm of spline shaft exposed. The friction plate metal is 0.95mm each
.95×11=10.45
12-10.45 = 1.55mm
1.55/22 (for the 22 friction pads) =0.07mm and this would have to be the maximum thickness of each…[Read more]

]]> 11322115dd968d16cfc2040d5ba52ef0 https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/ransomes-motor-triple-cutter-drive-clutch/#post-39905 Sun, 04 Sep 2022 12:59:04 +0100 That’s a great help, thank you. I noticed the burring of the ears and filed those clean, but will need to check the cage next time I’m up there. It sounds to me as if I have relined some perfectly serviceable clutch plates in error! i have searched high and low for replacement plates but they are just not available anywhere. Ransomes stopped…[Read more]

]]> f7848d0833e2c0c86ce22f8548bc9176 https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/ransomes-motor-triple-cutter-drive-clutch/#post-39899 Sun, 04 Sep 2022 10:49:24 +0100 Trying again!

]]> a12df3c1a807ffcd6e6f59133974ebc0 https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/ransomes-motor-triple-cutter-drive-clutch/ Sat, 03 Sep 2022 14:37:33 +0100 I all.
my clutch was slippimng and making a metallic grinding noise so I stripped it down and found that the clutch plates were very thin and the friction plates had worn and had a lip, so the thing frictiopn plates were sitting inside this lip and there was my metal-on-metal problem!
So I carefully sanded out the lips so I g=had flat plates again…[Read more]

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