corvette77
New User
Hello everyone, first time poster here.
I'm having a issue with the clutch on my 300B backhoe (same as a 300 utility or a 1020 I believe) that just appeared yesterday out of nowhere. I've had the unit for about a month now and bought it off a good friend of mine who has had no issue with the clutch for the entire time he owned it. I've only driven it around the yard and put MAYBE 2hrs total on the unit with no clutch issues at all.
I parked it 3 days ago next to my garage and had no clutch problems. Fired it up yesterday to move it to cut grass underneath it and I have no clutch. Won't go into gear running because it just grinds gears with the clutch depressed. Again I had no problem with it three days ago and I haven't touched it at all in that time. It can easily shift gears when not running and can fire up (in some of the low gears/range) and drive but the clutch is doing nothing. Being that it was sitting completely still and not running I can't imaging that the clutch magically decided to give up the ghost and this must be something stupid simple.
I saw another similar post from 15years ago and they claimed that tying the pedal down and running it in gear may break it loose but I tried that to no avail. I'm very mechanically versed in cars but these tractors are a bit alien to me.
any advice or things to try are greatly appreciated.
I'm having a issue with the clutch on my 300B backhoe (same as a 300 utility or a 1020 I believe) that just appeared yesterday out of nowhere. I've had the unit for about a month now and bought it off a good friend of mine who has had no issue with the clutch for the entire time he owned it. I've only driven it around the yard and put MAYBE 2hrs total on the unit with no clutch issues at all.
I parked it 3 days ago next to my garage and had no clutch problems. Fired it up yesterday to move it to cut grass underneath it and I have no clutch. Won't go into gear running because it just grinds gears with the clutch depressed. Again I had no problem with it three days ago and I haven't touched it at all in that time. It can easily shift gears when not running and can fire up (in some of the low gears/range) and drive but the clutch is doing nothing. Being that it was sitting completely still and not running I can't imaging that the clutch magically decided to give up the ghost and this must be something stupid simple.
I saw another similar post from 15years ago and they claimed that tying the pedal down and running it in gear may break it loose but I tried that to no avail. I'm very mechanically versed in cars but these tractors are a bit alien to me.
any advice or things to try are greatly appreciated.
