JD350 Hydraulic Reverser? Any Options? Or Part/Out-Sell

Quest4Life

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So I have a JD350 (don t have serial on me, but about a 68 ), with a bad hydraulic reverser, and a GOOD EVERYTHING ELSE! Including winch, 6 way blade, engine, all works GREAT, etc. Was thrilled with it for a few years and we decided we d make it like new when we started tearing down to get to the reverser. Ordered all new steering clutch/brake parts, new tensioner for the one side, tracks, motor, undercarriage all in really good shape, and found/ordered most of the parts for the hydraulic reverser (have a hardcore machine shop guy/mechanic we took it to once we got it out) ..but some of the parts we cannot get/he cannot make and now I don t know what to do with it. Is there anyone out there/here that can fix one? Any rebuilt ones I can get? or do I just need to sell of the dozer in parts/pieces/etc .(REALLY WOULD LIKE IT FIXED). I got it for a great deal when I bought it, but have a feeling the guy knew about the reverser because it was temperamental at first, but we thought it was the steering clutches getting wet that was causing it to not move sometimes and be fine other times .until we drained the reverser s hydraulic fluid and found way to many parts of bearings/metal/etc ..

6 Way blade works great
Motor runs great
already bought several Thousand dollars in new parts to make like new as we rebuilt it .. and Now I m dead in the water and my best friends workshop is half filled up with the dozer in pieces and the new parts and we can t find anything online to either get a rebuilt one/used one/etc .

I m I just dead in the water? Do I just sell it off, or can someone out here help me find a way to get a reverser rebuild oneetc? We ve been looking for more than a year and I just don t know enough about these things and can t find anything online, and Paul hasn t had any luck either.

Let me know what you all think and if I should sell it do I try and sell the major components individually? Winch/6 Way/ROPS/Engine/or should I put back together (seems nuts since you gotta tear it all down again just to get back to reverser) and sell assembled with the new parts, but no working reverser? etc.

It s time to figure it out and either MAKE IT GO or GET IT GONE I guess Sad

Thank you in advance for any help/recommendations you can provide.

Kind regards,
Phil
 
The JD 350 was a decent machine. It's difficult to advise you. You will have to inspect everything for wear. Is the undercarriage okay? Get a shop manual and read it over a cup of coffee.
Your knowledge of the issues and how things work may lead you to a decision to part out or fix. Good used parts are available. If you have it apart and have some new parts, I'd advise you
to try and fix it.
 
my 1969 JD 350 was a straight machine meaning no reverser. Any way you can bypass the reverser? My JD 2010 (4 cyl) had a reverser & it was powerless in reverse going uphill, nearly dying without a load. The straight machines had more power going forward also.
 
(quoted from post at 17:06:15 08/21/22) The JD 350 was a decent machine. It's difficult to advise you. You will have to inspect everything for wear. Is the undercarriage okay? Get a shop manual and read it over a cup of coffee.
Your knowledge of the issues and how things work may lead you to a decision to part out or fix. Good used parts are available. If you have it apart and have some new parts, I'd advise you
to try and fix it.

We have already torn it all apart and already decided it was DEFINITELY in good enough shape to fix, we just can't find the rest of the parts we need to rebuild the reverser, and I can't find any reversers I could just buy rebuilt/used/etc. Paul is a hardcore mechanic, and I'm pretty handy, and we did the cup of coffee / shop manual thing for weeks before we ever decided to start tearing it apart ....AFTER we decided it was dEFINTELY worth fixing.

Now we just cannot seem to find anyone who knows where to get the hydraulic reverser parts we need (most of them we found, and bought ...before we ran into the handful that we can't find ...for example the Pump (pump cover really is what looks like) has been unattainable so far at a minimum which puts us dead in the water...)

I was just hoping someone out here might now of a source the for the parts they no longer make for the hydraulic reverser, that we hadn't stumbled across in all our searches, looking,calls, etc....

I have the part#'s & names here somewhere on my computer :) I'll dig them up when I get a minute and try and ask that way/specifically.
 

You didn't say, but likely you have talked to your JD construction equipment dealer, did you ask them to do a system search? Some dealers, somewhere, might have some parts setting on a shelf.
 
I have a near new pump / gears for a reverser. They have about 3 minutes bench run time on them. When I rebuild a reverser, I run it up with a
heavy drill motor and spline adapter to check operation , leaks before it goes into chassis. Story goes, Man contacted me to rebuild his
reverser. I went out with my service, truck pulled engine, set it on the ground against the track. Pulled reverser and loaded it into bed of
service truck. Covered engine, and piled nose and associated tin against the engine/track. I took the reverser home to rebuild, got it back
together and tested it. all good. UNTIL , the man calls me and asked me if I took the engine with me. Well no I didn't. Turns out someone came
along and stole his engine. Cops saw drag marks in the dirt and 1 ton dual wheel marks in the dirt. [ My truck was a F-600 with 22 inch rubber on
it. ] I could not find a good used engine anywhere, so he junked the machine. I took my parts out of the reverser and handed it back to him. I
used most all the parts with the exception of the front pump housing and gears and a few clutch disks and misc. hard parts.
 
There is a place that buys and
inventories obsolete JD parts(I think a
JD dealer gave me the information). I
found them one time but don't remember
the name or anything. There was also
someone in Texas I got obsolete parts
from, don't remember his name either but
he was very helpful. I may have written
this all down in my manuals but I sold
machines and manuals went with them. You
can also try a Google search by part
number and see if you get any results.
Google obsolete JD parts and see what
salvage yards pop up.
 

I m definitely interested ..what ya want for it? Sorry for the delay, I have been traveling non stop for work, which makes "home-life" & projects difficult to say the least.

Lemme know.

Phil
 

Ha ha ..this is about how well my memory works these days too :). I ve been google searching on and off for a year without much luck so far the posting here has been the most beneficial try I ve tried :)


Thanks for trying :)

Phil
 


I guess the second question would be (since it sounds like you do this kinda work) would you be interested in rebuilding for me? We have a super talented guy that was trying to get it done and machine whatever parts he could that we couldn t find but he isn t a dozer guy, and it s a good friend of mine, calling in a favor with a friend of his . If I can pay to have it done with you, I d happily do so to avoid my friend burning up one of his favors :). and the guy isn t a dozer guy, he is apparently just a wicked talented fabricator who does a lot of custom work for nascar and other folks of that caliber so I m sure my little project is just a pain in his A#$ anyway :). since I m also a stranger to him!

Any idea what the weight is on a hydraulic reverser? It s feasible (depending on weight) I could throw it in my little single engine airplane and fly it to you.if you were interested in doing the work for me..

Phil
 


Just reaching out again .if you want to sell, I definitely am interested. I try to check here every week or two to see if any responses but you can just text me or call me at 740.706.1727 if you want to sell!!!!
 
If Roy uses Classic View, like many on this site do, he is likely not seeing your posts. Right now, this post is setting on page 6 of the Classic index for this forum. To see your last couple posts, he would need to be searching back through those 6 pages to find the original post where yours are attached. Classic posts stay in the time they were posted, no bumping a post to the top as most forums do these days. Modern View moves an old post to the top every time a new reply is made to the post. You should consider making a new post about 350 reverser parts, so it will be on top, and Roy will more likely see it.

This post was edited by Jim.ME on 01/02/2023 at 04:01 pm.
 

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