1948 Ferguson TE20 Tractor help

78CJ

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I just picked one up last night......and nearly had to "pick it up" to get it on the trailer. I has not been run in 2 years and the previous owner just passed. I bought it from the estate. When we tried to winch it onto the trailer the rear wheels will not turn. We jacked it up and the wheels are free of the brakes. The differential operates, so.....? The clutch may be frozen but with the trans in neutral I would assume it should roll free.

Thanks

Ryan
 

I has been cold enough to freeze but I would have thought dragging it on the trailer would have broke it free, it really feels mechanical. I was reading on an older post about the trans being stuck in two gears. The shifter seems to move rather freely in to 1 and 2 and reverse but three and four seem to be stuck. By removing the shift cover, I assume you were talking (it was you that replied to the post) about the two bolts holding the small shifter on.

Ryan
 
I bought a TO35 that drove around when I was looking at it but when I went to pick it up it was a colder day and the transmission had locked up completely. The rear wheels still turned so I managed to remove the drive shaft coupler though the side covers (cold hands after that operation!) and then rolled it onto the trailer. When I put it in my above-freezing garage overnight the transmission was free and I drained a lot of water out of it.

If course, you can't remove the drive coupler on a TE20 without splitting the tractor, and you may have other issues but you still may just have a frozen transmission.

Dan
 
Yes, get it in neutral best you can before removing the shifter. Then look into the shifter hole, the shift rails should be in a straight across pattern. If 3/4 is not lined up with the others, pry it forward or backward to line it up. Just be sure the drive train is not in a bind, could jack up one wheel to relieve any binding. And, if it's frozen it might not move.
 

I will give that a try and let you guys know. Do I have to take the whole top off, or just the two bolts holding the shifter on?

Ryan
 
Ferguson TEA20 in neutral:

GearSelectors.jpg


Bob in Oz
 
If it is like my 35 (and I think it is) all you have to do is undo the
transmission oil filler plug and use a large screw driver to move the
selectors into neutral, through the filler hole.
 

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