5200 clutch

Had a new clutch put in my 5200 (tall 1975 5000, with dual power). The dual power unit was gone through as well. Had it at the long time neighborhood tractor mechanic, they do good work but maybe not so many fords.

About hurt myself when I got it back, the old clutch was wore out and engaged when the pedal was all out...

When I got it back, the pedal had to be all the way in, there was a whole lot of pedal free play.

So getting through the spring, now it really doesn't want to shift. The pedal free play is about in the middle of travel now. At idle I can shift it, when just starting out the day I can shift it.

But at half throttle, the clutch must be dragging along. Pedal all the way in, and have to bump the lever out of gear, and chatter it back into gear.

Feels like I'm just kinda loosing the clutch.....

Is this an adjustment thing, or is it an internal thing that isn't right, or what's going on? I know I'll go talk to the mechanic, but.....

This is the same tractor that has now had 3 new genuine New Holland instrument clusters put in, they went 2.9 hours, .9 hours, and just this week again .9 hours and stop counting hours. Guess I just have to give up on having a good dash cluster. That is just too dang frustrating to deal with, 3 bad ones in a row. No wonder there are cheap China knockoffs out there, at least they are only $150 to not work.....

Anyhow I am feeling sorry for harping my mechanic, he has to eat all this running around with the dash which isn't his fault, I'd like to better understand what the deal is with the clutch now.

And, I can't tell you how many hours I've put on the clutch..... ;( all the planting, some hay, some spraying, some harrowing......

Paul

Pressure plate is coming apart?? or coming loose from flywheel, or bad spring, or broken??

Really.

Oh boy. My mechanic is gonna be so happy with me.... I'll be
'that customer'.

Not his fault, not mine, things just not going well with this deal.

Paul

If I'm reading this correctly, you're saying the freeplay is HALF of the pedal travel? If this is the case, then yes, you should try some adjustment before calling your mechanic. Freeplay of an inch to an inch and a half should help get it into gear

Sounds like a simple free travel issue to me. Adjust it up to about 1-1/8" free travel and see how it behaves.

Rod

it sounds like the screws on the clutch fingers are not out far enough. I ran into this with my 9000 when I put in a double disc clutch. You have to measure the distance from screw top to the face of the Release bearing by measuring to their respective mating surfaces. this of course requires it to be split again.

Are you saying the pedal is changing distance after your have drivin it a bit?? That would be something bad happening. I did see a 7000 that had the clutch rod loose and it screwed out while driving over a period of time.. but when the pedal changes, that is not a good thing, if I am reading this right. Rod is loose, pressure plate is coming apart, or disc is coming apart, throwout bearing or pivot is broken??

The point at which the clutch catches and tractor goes is
changing.

The pedal travel itself is staying the same.

When it was wore out the clutch first grabbed when the pedal
was fully out of course.

When I got the tractor back, the clutch would catch when you
barely let the clutch up at all, was a whole lot of free travel of
the pedal.

Now a 1/2 year of use and the clutch is grabbing at about mid
travel of the pedal.

However the clutch does not seem to release well, even when
the petal is smashed hard to the floorboards, I have to chatter
the shifter in or out of gear, tractor will want to move a bit when
popping into gear with the pedal all the way down.

Paul

Ok.

When I got it back, the pedal free play was 3/4 of the pedal travel, but it shifted fine. (Had to push pedal to floorboards before it disengaged, most of the pedal movement was just the return spring) Seemed like an odd setup of free play but it worked so....

Now, it has pedal free play of about 1/2 the travel, but it doesn't want to release fully.

I will play with the free play pedal travel, but seems like its a little off somehow some way, my instincts say things are going the wrong way. I realize new stuff wears in and moves a bit, but this seems to be progressive that the grab point continues to move.

I can take a combine apart and back together in the dark; engines and transmissions remain a mystery to me. thanks for advising a dummy.

Paul