Butler System vibration

[Andrew from Simply Clean]

My dad was a tool and die maker. One of his tools was a run-out dial micrometer. He would carefully rotate a pulley or such to detect and cure such sources of mystery vibrations.

Due to "stacking tolerances" otherwise acceptable parts in combination can be ever so slightly out of spec.

Measure it carefully.

I'm thinking the belts are very slightly misaligned by the engine. I know 2 very good mechanics that I've done business with for years that I'll talk to about it

 

[Lee Stockwell]

Sometimes a "quick & dirty" fix is to remove a rotating part and rotate its position 90 or 180 degrees on reassembly to unstack dynamic harmonic vibrations.

 

[Andrew from Simply Clean]

So in the middle of a job the pulley starts sliding off and I'm down for the day. I did exactly what the guy from Butler told me to do and it ended up screwing everything up. I'm getting really sick of this thing

 

[hogjowl]

I told you to sell it
Then buy something you can get fixed locally

 

[FredC]

So in the middle of a job the pulley starts sliding off and I'm down for the day. I did exactly what the guy from Butler told me to do and it ended up screwing everything up. I'm getting really sick of this thing

He didn’t tell you to tighten things back up?

 

[ronbeatty]

Andrew, Order a remanufactured drive shaft and clutch from Butler. If the pulley worked loose it probably screwed up the end of the shaft. I ran Butlers for 25 years and replaced a driveshaft in almost everyone.

 

[Lee Stockwell]

I cringe a bit at Butler getting a bad rap for what happens to 2nd and 3rd owners a decade after the original sale.

 

[steve_64]

Ahhh memories of buying the WM.

I was lucky to find modernistic to help me. Problems arose when I started getting work done on it. They helped me along as I learnt the machine.

I had to drive 3 hours each way a few times but well worth it.

 

[Bob Pruitt]

Unless you live near Mark Saiger it is better to buy new.

 

[ronbeatty]

I cringe a bit at Butler getting a bad rap for what happens to 2nd and 3rd owners a decade after the original sale.

Butler and Aerotech make the best trucks on the market, when you buy a used truck you have to expect some downtime. When it does go down, bite the bullet and fix it right the first time and get back to work.

 

[Andrew from Simply Clean]

Omg! It's all fixed! I was definitely tightening that pulley all wrong. I made about a centimeter of adjustment on both the pulleys and tightened em down the correct way. I spent all night working on it. And the blower was at a slant so the belts were wobbling back and forth. Now everything is perfectly straight and tensioned and no more vibration anywhere!

 

[Matt Middleton]

Great! Now make some money!☺

 

[hogjowl]

It’s refreshing to see an honest idiot around here.

 

[Andrew from Simply Clean]

It’s refreshing to see an honest idiot around here.

Thanks moron