Komatsu — CONTROL LEVERS AND PEDALS

. OPERATION EXPLANATION OF COMPONENTS RETARDER CONTROL LEVER WARNING (D): Increase travel speed setting (tap up) 3 - 11 Donot us e the retarder contro l lever instead of the parking brake. Ifth e retarder is used as a parking bra kewhen the starting s witch is ON, the braking forc e will g radually become weaker. If the machine is parked on a slope, the machin e may move off witho ut the operator and cause se rious p Use this retarder co ntrol l ever (2) to adju st the travel speed when traveling downhill. e retarder control lever is pulled back (a), the retarder is When th contro retar applied. The brakin g force can be adjuste d by the amount th at the lever is pulled.

he retarder is actuated, the retarder pilot lamp on the monitor lights up. When t he retarder machine monitor lig hts up When th e retarder i s operated, part (A) of up. lamp lights AUTO RETARDER (ARSC) SET LEVER Use this auto retard er (ARSC) set lever ( 3) to set the travel s peed for the auto retard er (ARSC), to adjust the travel speed, or to d peed setting (tap down) cancel t he setting. (A): Set (B): Red (C): Can travel spee uce travel s cel setting For de tails of h andlin g the Auto retarder (ARSC), see "ARSC(AUTOMATI AGE 3-106)".