Hi everyone!
I'm new to the forum and in all honestly I registered here in desperation as it's sunday and I don't know anyone mechanically minded. I bought myself a roto-tiller with an eye to tearing up all sorts of things in my yard and I am having the worst time with it.
It was pre-assembled, unfortunately, and I'm starting to suspect I should just return it. I had a terrible time getting the clutch cable sorted and hooked up properly and now that I have I cannot get the wheels to move anymore.
When I say that they won't move I mean with or without the engine, the wheels are locked in place suddenly. I wheeled it around just fine earlier to get it to the place I wanted to dig so this is a new symptom that happened as soon as I tried to engage the tines and actually -dig- something.
I've tried adjusting the clutch as suggested in the manual but I think the problem is that the wheels are locked, not that the clutch is adjusted wrong. If I hold the tiller in the air I still can't spin the wheels.
Does anyone have any suggestions for what I can do? I'm a fairly new homeowner that's been ignoring his yard for the last year and I've decided it's time to stop embarrassing my neighbors and catch up but I'm a computer guy, not a mechanical guy, so this is tough going for me!
(Also if anyone has any suggestions for reading when it comes to getting up to speed with engines and heavy gear in general, please let me know, I'd love to do my research and -really- understand what I'm doing with chokes and clutches and transmissions and gears and so forth.)
I'm new to the forum and in all honestly I registered here in desperation as it's sunday and I don't know anyone mechanically minded. I bought myself a roto-tiller with an eye to tearing up all sorts of things in my yard and I am having the worst time with it.
It was pre-assembled, unfortunately, and I'm starting to suspect I should just return it. I had a terrible time getting the clutch cable sorted and hooked up properly and now that I have I cannot get the wheels to move anymore.
When I say that they won't move I mean with or without the engine, the wheels are locked in place suddenly. I wheeled it around just fine earlier to get it to the place I wanted to dig so this is a new symptom that happened as soon as I tried to engage the tines and actually -dig- something.
I've tried adjusting the clutch as suggested in the manual but I think the problem is that the wheels are locked, not that the clutch is adjusted wrong. If I hold the tiller in the air I still can't spin the wheels.
Does anyone have any suggestions for what I can do? I'm a fairly new homeowner that's been ignoring his yard for the last year and I've decided it's time to stop embarrassing my neighbors and catch up but I'm a computer guy, not a mechanical guy, so this is tough going for me!
(Also if anyone has any suggestions for reading when it comes to getting up to speed with engines and heavy gear in general, please let me know, I'd love to do my research and -really- understand what I'm doing with chokes and clutches and transmissions and gears and so forth.)