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1. Daniel Mulder

   

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   8/15/2014 12:08 PM

   Having trouble with my Toro GM3150, we removed the reels to grind them this week and when we set them back up on the mower the right front reel started giving us problems. When we engaged the reels to mow the engine kills. We removed the reel motor from the right front reel and it runs perfect, without a reel attached,and the spline on the motor runs normal. There's nothing restricting the reel so that's not the problem, in fact we move the reels around and the same thing happened when we attached the reel motor. We put a new reel motor on and the same problem exists, can't imagine what happened by just taking a reel off. Visited with our Toro service manager and he said that they've had some issues with the reel motor assembly being too tight and that we should try and run the reel motor to loosen it up, tried that and that didn't work. Any ideas?
   
   
   Dan Mulder
   Landsmeer G.C.
   Orange City, IA.

   
   
   
   
2. Henry Heinz

   

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   8/16/2014 6:08 AM

   Check your other motors for one being hard to turn. You may have a block in reel drive section of the hydraulics, but I would have to see a schematic. I'll try to look one up on-line if I get time tonight. Does the machine run all three hydraulic motors when unhooked? Hydraulics will always follow the path of least resistances. By removing the motor you've created that path. Have you tried removing a different motor and running it with the right one hooked up? Also did you do any other service work when you had your cutting units off the machine?
   
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3. Daniel Mulder

   

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   8/16/2014 7:08 AM

   Henry,
   
   Changing out reel motors this morning. The motors all run fine when I unhook them from the reels but when I hook them all up the engine kills. If I take the right front motor off the mower runs fine and the motor seems to be 100%, until I hook it back up. All we did was take the reels off to grind them and then re-installed them and that's when the problems began. Checked to see if they would backlap and that works.

   
   
   
   
4. Daniel Mulder

   

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   8/16/2014 9:08 AM

   Found the issue, bad reel motors. Both brand new and every time I switched out an old one for a new one the new reel motor killed the engine. Rebuilt an old motor and now everything is working. Thanks for all the advice.