I’ve had my Yanmar 1510D tractor for some time now, but I’m getting to the point where I actually need to know what I’m supposed to be doing when servicing it. Yanmar’s European operation was exceptionally unkeen to help out, this being a grey import model, but the Internet came to the rescue as ever and I now have an imported set of manuals to go with my imported tractor. There is, it seems to me, a certain irony in having a global economy and still trying to manipulate the market on a national basis.
The top one is the “user manual” which is all pretty straightforward though I could do without the grisly explanations of what can happen if you get caught in the PTO splines when it is running. It does at least explain the proper method for restarting the tractor when you’ve run it out of fuel which has always been a bit of a pain to sort on the two or three occasions I’ve been careless enough to let it happen. There were some other things I learned from it too.
The second down, almost 4cm thick, is the service manual which I think will come in very handy. Well worth having, that one.
The final one is the parts manual. Not sure how useful this will be, but it didn’t cost much on top of the other two and if it does turn out that I need it then it would have been a pain to order later as shipping is quite a large proportion of the total cost.