Hello everyone, first post here. I have a Mule 3010 they had low compression and I put a rebuilt engine in it. The problem I'm having is that while both the primary drive clutch and secondary driven clutch spin together with the engine idling in neutral, as soon as you go to put it in any gear the secondary driven clutch completely stops moving and the primary drive clutch keeps turning so the belt makes a very loud squealing noise due to the friction of rubbing against the secondary driven pulley. I put a new secondary driven pulley and belt on it and the problem still exists. I inspected the two gear selector linkages on the transmission and they both operate freely. I even went out to look at a friend's Mule 3010 and took a video of the operation of the two gear selector positions in high gear, neutral, low gear, and reverse to compare and they look to be identical. Does anyone have a clue what would be causing this? The only other thing I can think of is that when I first went to start the engine, the shifter cable bracket was still hanging loose since it is bolted to the engine and I had to move it around a bit to get it in neutral so it would crank. Not certain if this could have caused any issues, but again both of the gear selector levers appear to be operating properly. Transmission fluid is full and clean. Any ideas? Any help would be very, very much appreciated!

 

Not sure about the engine you have replaced but when it’s running is it turning the correct way? Some small engines can be set to run either way. On the 3010 it runs counter clockwise when standing on the drive side facing the engine. Not saying yours is running the opposite way but I assume before the engine change out the secondary clutch was working right? Just a thought, check it out.

 

Thanks for the reply. Actually, the problem wound up being that the idle RPM was set much too low and when it was put in gear it would not engage the secondary clutch at all because the primary drive clutch was not expanding as much as it should and therefore the belt just slipped on the secondary clutch. I did not want to give it throttle because I thought the transmission / gearbox was bound up, but it was not. I put a tachometer/inductive pickup on the coil wire and set the idle RPM to factory spec and the issue was resolved. Sorry I did not reply back earlier so anyone looking for a resolve to a similar problem knows what this issue was at least.

 

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