Hello, This question is in regard to a 1970 Case 530 with a loader/backhoe setup. No PTO.
First of all I want to start out by saying I consider my self very mechanical on cars and trucks, but know very little about this tractor outside of the common traits.
This is my fathers tractor. It is a 1970 Case 530 "King wheel" tractor with the Shuttle transmission. I get the general idea of the shuttle transmission that is works like a torque converter in a car, but I am by no means an expert on them.
My dad was plowing snow last winter in his yard, and had just finished and was driving the tractor back to the house. He was driving along with no load on the tractor, when suddenly he heard a "snap" noise and the tractor stopped moving. The motor still runs great, but the tractor will not move. If you use the backhoe feet to pick the back wheels off the ground, they will turn at a very slow pace forward and backward when you shift gears, but it is with such little force that you can stop them by just putting your hand on it.
Any idea of what might have happened? I can understand that something major could have happened if this problem occurred while the tractor was under heavy load, but he was just idling back to the house on his flat driveway.
Anyway, he lives near Sioux falls, SD and found a guy that could work on it. The guy didn't exactly knwo what was wrong, but thought it would be very expensive.
If I could find a shop manual for this thing, and have a general understanding of how this shuttle system worked, I would feel comfortable tackling this myself and saving my old man some money.
Thanks for any help you can give!
First of all I want to start out by saying I consider my self very mechanical on cars and trucks, but know very little about this tractor outside of the common traits.
This is my fathers tractor. It is a 1970 Case 530 "King wheel" tractor with the Shuttle transmission. I get the general idea of the shuttle transmission that is works like a torque converter in a car, but I am by no means an expert on them.
My dad was plowing snow last winter in his yard, and had just finished and was driving the tractor back to the house. He was driving along with no load on the tractor, when suddenly he heard a "snap" noise and the tractor stopped moving. The motor still runs great, but the tractor will not move. If you use the backhoe feet to pick the back wheels off the ground, they will turn at a very slow pace forward and backward when you shift gears, but it is with such little force that you can stop them by just putting your hand on it.
Any idea of what might have happened? I can understand that something major could have happened if this problem occurred while the tractor was under heavy load, but he was just idling back to the house on his flat driveway.
Anyway, he lives near Sioux falls, SD and found a guy that could work on it. The guy didn't exactly knwo what was wrong, but thought it would be very expensive.
If I could find a shop manual for this thing, and have a general understanding of how this shuttle system worked, I would feel comfortable tackling this myself and saving my old man some money.
Thanks for any help you can give!