Sotts L1742 won't stop

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I have a Scotts L1742 and the emergency brake doesn't engage and is preventing the clutch from disengaging?
So I can put it in gear but I can't stop it from moving. It keeps going.
Any ideas? Or I'm hoping a photo of the emergency brake assembly that is below the battery and hard to get to .
Thanks.

 

[bertsmobile1]

A picture is better than a thousand words.

Something is stopping the pulley marked I in the diagram from moving far enough to slacken the belt enough to allow the belt to slip on the engine pulley
The rod marked F has an adjustment on it to pull the lever on the brake ( not numbered ) to apply the brake.
You will find the brake just in front of the right hand wheel ( sitting on tractor ).
It is a simple lever operated disc brake abd itself has an adjustment nut ( the one in the center ) if the lever is moving freely to its fullextent and the brake not applying.
This bit is confusing.
The brake operates on the layshaft, not directly on the rear wheels.
It locks the layshaft which locks the diff so one wheel can only go foreward and the other can only go backwards it does not actually stop the wheels turning when they are off the ground.

 

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No,it wasn't the brakes.
I had gotten the tractor without any instructions on what was done to it and as it turns out they had put a belt on it that was 2 " shorter than it was supposed to be. It caused the TA to be engaged all the time. I also had to bend back rod A to slacken the belt and engage bracket C properly.
Where did you get that nice schematic? It's way clearer than the one JD puts up here for US to peruse.
Thanks again.

A picture is better than a thousand words.
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Something is stopping the pulley marked I in the diagram from moving far enough to slacken the belt enough to allow the belt to slip on the engine pulley
The rod marked F has an adjustment on it to pull the lever on the brake ( not numbered ) to apply the brake.
You will find the brake just in front of the right hand wheel ( sitting on tractor ).
It is a simple lever operated disc brake abd itself has an adjustment nut ( the one in the center ) if the lever is moving freely to its fullextent and the brake not applying.
This bit is confusing.
The brake operates on the layshaft, not directly on the rear wheels.
It locks the layshaft which locks the diff so one wheel can only go foreward and the other can only go backwards it does not actually stop the wheels turning when they are off the ground.

 

[bertsmobile1]

Ah yes .
Never assume that anything bought second hand is as it left the factory, Something I am forever telling new veteran motorcycle owners.
Glad you got it sorted.
The page was lifted from a John Deere repair manual which is why they are worth what JD sells them for.
When JD started to make machines they provided service information that the average uneducated farm hand could understand.
This philosophy has continued down the ages so their mower manuals are more like a text book than a mower repair manual.
It is currently available as are nearly all the JD manuals from the JD web site, about $30 for a digital download and about $ 50 for paper