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RBnSC

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Bought this from a friend. 4 speed transmission is broke and lift doesn't go up. The draft control lever is broken off would that make the lift not work. He said the lift was working when he parked it eight years ago.
Ron
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Draft control lever being broken wouldn't necessarily cause a problem with the lift, but the reason that it broke could. If the linkage was jammed up and he banged on it and broke it trying to free it up then that could be the cause of the problem, but I would venture a guess that it would have been like that when he parked it 8 years ago, so if you trust him that is probably not the case.

If it truly was working when the tractor was parked 8 years ago then I would drain and replace the fluid first, then try bleeding the pump.
 
(quoted from post at 13:40:44 12/15/17) Bought this from a friend. 4 speed transmission is broke and lift doesn't go up. The draft control lever is broken off would that make the lift not work. He said the lift was working when he parked it eight years ago.
Ron
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FYI..I have a full set of excellent quality tranny gears for a 4 speed transmission. Selling cheap...Let me know what you need in gears and maybe we can do business
 
Thanks but I have two spare four speeds. One has a fine spline output and the other coarse.
Ron
 
The motor runs slick as a whistle. Trans has at least one broken gear. We can see that when you pull the shifter stick out (it comes right out). I have fixed them before. I have two complete spares. Plan is to just swap it out. The lift I'm not so sure. I'll have to pull lift cover off to fix draft control lever. My question is whether that might be the problem, or if it's the unloader valve as has been suggested to me.
The seat was made by owner so he and his spouse could ride on it together.
Story was that it belonged to swmbo's grandfather. When they got it SOS was bad. They rebuilt the engine and had trans swapped all about twenty five years ago. Eight years ago wife was using it when gear stick came out then wouldn't move. When they got it to move again they said it had a click on it. My guess is they got it in two years and broke it trying to get it to move. This all happened years ago and they parked it under a shed now they are cleaning up and sold it to me. My plan is to fix it and sell it, but first I'm going to offer it back to them.
Ron
 
I bled the pump before I bought it. They wasn't any air in it. Oil came out,the pump is working. To me it seems like it is bypassing somewhere and not making pressure. That's my theory but I'm open to suggestions (oil is clean).
Ron
 
Where's the air filter? I see the pre-filter but no air filter. If you didn't light it off before buying, you might have to include an engine overhaul in your list of things to do. But that may be no big deal with everything considered in the deal.
 
(quoted from post at 08:02:00 12/16/17) Where's the air filter? I see the pre-filter but no air filter. If you didn't light it off before buying, you might have to include an engine overhaul in your list of things to do. But that may be no big deal with everything considered in the deal.

I see the air filter box! you must not be familiar with it on the earliest Ford 01 diesels???
 
I heard it run before I bought it. This is the fourth running one of these 172 diesels I've owned this the quickest cranking and smoothest running one yet.
Ron
 
(quoted from post at 08:02:00 12/16/17) Where's the air filter? I see the pre-filter but no air filter.

That square box under the intake is the air filter on that model, my 62 881 has that same setup.
I believe they changed to the hood mounted air filter in late 62 or early 63 with the -000 series.
 
Yeah on 2 counts: not familiar with the 100 series and do see it now that you mentioned it. Mine are/have been thousand series.
 
(quoted from post at 10:50:34 12/17/17) Yeah on 2 counts: not familiar with the 100 series and do see it now that you mentioned it. Mine are/have been thousand series.

00 series did not have this, as there were no diesel 00s. This is an 01 series thing!
 

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