Posted by dwknapp on August 12, 2010 at 12:30:51 from (216.203.80.125):
Hello Everyone,
I have a 56 Farmall 200 (The Red Mistress), who has suddenly developed a very expensive sounding banging noise in the transmission. It goes away when in neutral, but comes back right away when in any gear. The tractor does move, but the banging speeds up as the engine speeds up. It sounds like a broken tooth or a backed out bolt in the clutch that is hitting something as it goes around. I need to either fix it myself, have it done (someone estimated about $2,000 to $3,000 to fix), or sell it off.
I have only hand tools, no hoist, no solid overhead beams for holding a split tractor and no experience in diving into the guts of this baby. Is fixing it a job for an expert or can the shop manual and slow going make it a $300 job rather than a $3,000 job?
If selling it off, who would buy it? It lives near Culpeper, Va, and I don't have a truck to haul it off. It was repainted and had the engine professionally rebuilt about 10 years ago - new cylinder liners, etc. Runs fine, normally. I have been advised to sell it off, rather than let it become a large red elephant bio-degrading in the side yard, but it is so pretty, and much more classy than my other tractor, a Ford 601 with a front bucket. Even my teen age daughter says to keep it.
For me it would be a major project, and when done I would still be left wtih a battered old tractor, if I could get it back together correctly.
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