4240 power shift

Jim Pollock · Sep 23, 2013

My son is going to help a farmer to fill silo and they have a 4240 with a power shift. He has driven lots of tractors but none with power shift. What is the proper way to drive a tractor with power shift. Do you push in the clutch which I guess is actually the inching pedal before putting the gear selector in gear or is that not necessary? do you have to start out in the 1st gear and then shift up or can you start in a higher gear? Any help would be appreciated.

jturbo10 · Sep 23, 2013

Jim: You might try Google and see if there are any topics on a 4240 powershift and/or try "youtube". Good idea for you son to come prepared.

justanothercase · Sep 23, 2013

push clutch in hold brake take out of park pick direction forward i usually start in 3 reverse start in any just remember 1 slow 4 fast. shifting up and down 1-8 one gear at a time dont skip. shifting up throttle can be about anywhere i prefer to throttle down no load its less of a jerk and shift up at about half throttle. I would ask the owner his preference and go with that. very simple always come to a complete stop before you put it into park. and when you jump out to relieve yourself put it in park dont get out with it in neutral these tractors will creep. have fun they are a nice tractor to run.

Jim Pollock · Sep 24, 2013

Thanks for the replies guys. I actually helped them fill the silo this afternoon also and I was the one that got to drive the 4240. My son drove the smaller tractor and I think it is a 6110 or something like that. A guy came with a john deere chopper with a 6 row head. We started at 2:30 and my son came at 3:00 after school. By 7:00 we had filled the small silo with 15 loads and had another 3 loads on the wagon ready for the big silo. The 4240 was very nice to drive and I had no trouble with the power shift.

M w J · Sep 24, 2013

It don't make any difference if you skip gears or not I have had a powershift since 1964 and you can skip as many gear as you want. The only gear you don't want to skip is 6th if you are going to 7th It takes a lot of power to ingage all of the clutches for 7th If you have the rpm up you can skip 6th and go to 7th. I most always depress the inching pedal part way when skipping gears to cushion the shift. Back when we plowed the i din't use the inching pedal to shift but with light loads its smother. The 1st power shift tractor we have had since 1964 has over 20,000 hours on the transmission and was a loader tractor used to push silage in a bunker silo for 20 + years and it has never been apart.

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