Rear Wheel Rail Stops Question

Without the stops it will not stay were you have it set. Over time it will work its way in or out or it may move if the tire spins or when it is under a heavy load. Your best bet would be to move it in or out to the next stop.

Edited by Jason(OH) - 21 Sep 2015 at 6:17pm

If I remember right there only 3 possessions, all the way in, in the middle, and all the way out. Unless you turn the wheel center around, then there are 6.

The stops have to be lined up with the holes. You couldn't even tighten them up if they were not in line with a hole as they have to go through them. Do you have the proper stops for your rim?? They made 2 different stops and rails as I found out on my D17. Pictures would sure help so we could see what you have going on here.

Without the stops it just makes it harder to adjust to where you want it.  Trial and error is the plan of the day to set it for an exact location without the use of a stop.

Thanks to all! I have the wheel set at 26" but was worried about placing the stops on the rails without holes to bolt them too. Sounds like in this position the strops should be removed and thrown into the tool box?

The original distance from tractor center to inside of rear wheel was around 24" . After the adjustment it is now 26". To make this move the eccentrics traveled 3" around the rails. To end up with rail holes, and thus stops, on either side of the eccentric would require another 3.25" of movement. Don't know for certain but I estimate this may put the wheel spacing out to around 28"+. If this is in the ballpark I had just as well have left the spacing at 24". Which begs the question; "How much tire spacing leeway do you have for the plow to work well?

According to my 70 series plow manual, a WD needs to be set at 22-24 inches for a 3 bottom snap coupler plow.

If I'm clear on what Charlie said; Stops do not have to be in rail holes for wheel settings that put eccentrics between those holes. ????

Well since this has been going for a couple days I dug out my plow manual. on page 5 it states. set the tread width at 56" for 14" bottoms and 61" for 16" bottoms. looking in the WD manual on page 24 56" tread all the way in. stops removed. 61" is with the wheel at the next stop. Have you looked in your plow manual to see what it says about tread width. I've found that adjusting to the manual should be your best starting point. you can tweek from there to try and make it better. I just used the recomended setup and its pulled so easy that ive never changed it.

When you drop the right hand wheel in the furrow more than 50% of the weight of the rear of the tractor is on that right wheel. If the left wheel is out further than the right then a higher percent the weight is on that right wheel. Because of that the left wheel will break traction quicker that the right, and that gets to be a pain, especially when the plowing gets tough.