will-max dairy
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I have noticed a couple of oddities during the first year of running this old machine.
One: There is a three-range lever on the right side of the console. It's similar to an IH "torque amplifier" in that you can shift between three different speeds on the fly without changing gears. Last fall, while running a haybine, I was in the lowest range; and the next time I pushed the lever forward, nothing changed. The lever seems to have come un-linked from the linkage. I only use the machine to move round bales to feed during the winter; so I've left the repair to warmer weather. If I open up the console and find the linkage intact, what would be my next moves? Is there an adjustment to take up slack? Have I neglected to put hydraulic fluid into a special compartment somewhere; and that's why the range lever is inoperable? If all of that fails, I guess that I would be left with a mechanical failure within the range mechanism itself.
Two: In extremely cold weather (-10F and below), the tractor starts well as long as I use the block heater and glow plugs. However, once idling, I put it in gear to move out of the shed to let it warm up without turning the shed into a smoke bomb. I seems that the hydraulic system has water in it, as the hydraulics and steering need some warm up time before they become operable. On the very coldest days, this seems to affect the transmission. Once I move the tractor out of the shed, I try to put the tractor in nuetral so that it can warm up. Problem is, the engine is loaded and the tractor tries to move when I let out on the clutch...even after I've shifted to nuetral. If I hold the clutch for a few minutes, I am then able to let out on it without killing the engine or the tractor trying to move.
Any insight?
One: There is a three-range lever on the right side of the console. It's similar to an IH "torque amplifier" in that you can shift between three different speeds on the fly without changing gears. Last fall, while running a haybine, I was in the lowest range; and the next time I pushed the lever forward, nothing changed. The lever seems to have come un-linked from the linkage. I only use the machine to move round bales to feed during the winter; so I've left the repair to warmer weather. If I open up the console and find the linkage intact, what would be my next moves? Is there an adjustment to take up slack? Have I neglected to put hydraulic fluid into a special compartment somewhere; and that's why the range lever is inoperable? If all of that fails, I guess that I would be left with a mechanical failure within the range mechanism itself.
Two: In extremely cold weather (-10F and below), the tractor starts well as long as I use the block heater and glow plugs. However, once idling, I put it in gear to move out of the shed to let it warm up without turning the shed into a smoke bomb. I seems that the hydraulic system has water in it, as the hydraulics and steering need some warm up time before they become operable. On the very coldest days, this seems to affect the transmission. Once I move the tractor out of the shed, I try to put the tractor in nuetral so that it can warm up. Problem is, the engine is loaded and the tractor tries to move when I let out on the clutch...even after I've shifted to nuetral. If I hold the clutch for a few minutes, I am then able to let out on it without killing the engine or the tractor trying to move.
Any insight?