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Roger@Kansas

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I'm new to this forum, but have gotten a lot of good info from your posts. Hope someone can provide a little help. Thanks
I have a 1952 Super C. I was clearing snow drifts from driveway. Temp around 0 degrees with wind chill about 10 below zero. Working fine but after clearing one big drift, couldn't get transmissionn to go into reverse. Shift lever will go between 3rd and 4th but if engage, engine just pulls down. With shift level in neutral position, tractor moves like in first gear. Some posts on this site suggest may have frozen water in case. What's best way to determine problem and free up tranny?
 
(quoted from post at 10:42:36 02/06/14) I'm new to this forum, but have gotten a lot of good info from your posts. Hope someone can provide a little help. Thanks
I have a 1952 Super C. I was clearing snow drifts from driveway. Temp around 0 degrees with wind chill about 10 below zero. Working fine but after clearing one big drift, couldn't get transmissionn to go into reverse. Shift lever will go between 3rd and 4th but if engage, engine just pulls down. With shift level in neutral position, tractor moves like in first gear. Some posts on this site suggest may have frozen water in case. What's best way to determine problem and free up tranny?
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Sounds like your shifter on the end of gear stick slipped out of groove in rail in transmission. Just went through this yesterday with a Ford. May have to pull the cover to get it out of first and into neutral.
Richard
 
Sounds like the end of the shift lever came out of the shift rail. Remove the lever and use a bar to re-align the rails in the neutral position and then reinstall the shift lever.
 
Frozen water in the transmission is not your problem. The lower end of your shift lever (and probably the shifter forks) are worn. As you were shifting out of first, the lever slipped past the fork. You now have the lever engaged to the 3-4 fork while the 1-2 fork (and slider gear) is still in the first gear position rather than neutral.

You MAY be able to wiggle the lever in the general direction of the first gear position and get the lever back into the 1-2 fork and shift it into neutral. In the very likely case that doesn't work, you need to knock out the pin that holds the shift lever in place. Once the lever is removed, you may be able to reinstall it with the lever engaged to the 1-2 fork. Alternatively, use a pry bar to move all 3 forks to the disengaged (center) position then reinstall the shift lever.

If the problem keeps happening, the more permanent fix is to build the bottom of the shift lever back up to the original size. This is done by welding some material on and grinding it down to match the original size.
 
You wont have to pull the cover off. Thats kind of a big deal. You can just punch the pin out of the shift lever and use a big screw driver to line up the rails. Been there done that. Should take you 5 or 10 mins and you will be back up and going. I to plow with a Super C. great little tractor. Dang heater is not worth a crap though in this weather. Lol.
 
you may have to jack up one rear wheel, this will relieve pressure on forks and make it easier to shift the forks.

usually happens to me when i am in a hurry and shift too quickly, lots of times when i am going down hill.
 
Thanks to all for your feedback. Per your suggestions, I was able to remove the shift lever and re-align the sliders by knocking out the pin holding the lever -- took a few hard hits since looks like this pin has been in place since 1952. With the Super C, it is a BIG deal to take the cover off (per shop manual) so I was glad I was able to realign the sliders by just removing the lever. A warning to any other novices, be careful on removal/re-install of shift lever that you don"t let the little pivot shaft that the pin goes through fall into the transmission box -- it would be near impossible to fish it out without removing the cover. Just smear some bearing grease on it to prevent it falling out on re-install. Hopefully, it won"t pop out again, but if so, I"ll probably do the rebuild Jim B covered. Thanks again.
 
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