Just a note to let everyone know that while pulling a tree trunk with my '54 WD45 on Sunday, the shifter stuck in first gear, had a lot of side to side play but no forward and back motion. Luckly it still drove in 1st so I parked it and began looking in the AC forum here for archived messages regarding the transmissions. There were dozens about WD45's sticking in different gears, and how to pull the snap rings and the shifter, shine a light down through the top of the tower and line up the shifter forks. I read as many as I could find, went out this morning and within 1/2 hour I had the thing shifting and driving just fine. The most time-consuming thing was getting the bushing and snap rings back in - there must be some special tool for that because it took almost 10 minutes to get them back in with a pliers and screwdrivers. Anyway, your advice and help to others in the past has helped me greatly today. Thank you! I noticed Sunday and today that the engine wouldn't run unless the choke was pulled out quite a bit. The fuel bowl didn't have any rust in it (a problem in the past) but the engine acts exactly like it did when the bowl would fill with rust. I tool the bowl off and let some fuel run in to a cup - it had a good stream of fuel coming out of the tank. I wonder if some of the rust may have gotten in to the fuel line and clogged it? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. By the way, I finally got the tree trunk cut in half (too big around to cut straight through - had to make v-cuts on both sides so the 20" chainsaw would reach through the middle) and used the WD45 to pull the pieces back to the pasture. Thanks again! vic
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