Something you might consider next time following some challenging work is to just sniff along the air intake for the belt housing. Unless I’m wrong it’s the small grill opening just past the back seat on the passenger side facing outward.
Do you smell smoking rubber on your 570 under a heavy load?
We had a two foot snowfall yesterday and I plowed three (ours and two neighbors) pretty intense driveways today. The grade of these driveways and the amount of snow (plowing uphill and downhill) apparently put a lot of pressure on our 570 Ranger. I plowed all of these in Low range and the machine didn't hesitate through any of it, but when I stopped at the top of the hill from plowing uphill through 24" inches of snow and some 30+" snow drifts and backed up, I got some whiffs of what smelled like burning rubber and steam. I think the steam was from backing into a snow drift and that's when I got the smell. Just wondering if any of you get that and does it mean I burnt the belt. It didn't seem to be a problem the rest of the time I was plowing and I didn't smell it after I returned to the garage.
Here's a video of plowing downhill from this morning.
Here's a video of plowing downhill from this morning.
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I'm completely unfamiliar with plowing using a Ranger and use my compact tractor, but considering it strongly based on these conversations/statements. I'm curious do you run any weight in the bed to counter act the blade weight or to provide additional traction?Well, Trailcutter, you may have solved my mystery. I did add mudflaps in the rear this week before the snow. Interestingly, we smelled the rubber and had the vapor when I backed into a snowbank.
Today, I went out to move more snow off of our driveways and pushed the Ranger hard again but didn't have any issues and no smell. So, I'm thinking it was the combination of backing into that snow bank while turning around and the mudflap hitting the exhaust from all the snow pushing against it. I am really impressed with the power and traction of this Ranger. I was piling up crusty snow today with my KFI blade without any difficulty, plowing up hill and pushing snow piled up snow off our drop offs. There was one time today while plowing up a very steep hill with an angled blade and pushing a mound of snow in front that the Ranger went a little sideways, but never stopped moving up hill. Pretty impressive machine.
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