Its not all that uncommon for an H of that age to pop out of 5th. The shifting fork wears as does the 5th small driven gear where it slides into the driving gear. Every time it grinds going into 5th, a little more wear ocurrs on those two gears. Hold it in with the side of your leg until it absolutely won't stay in any more. We had a '41 H that we used on the loader for years that we had to hold in 5th that way. When we finally couldn't keep it in by pushing down with the side of the leg, we just quit using 5th. The other gears will work fine W/O 5th. Bearings are probably getting wore, too. All the gears are square cut and weren't made to run quietly. What gear lube do you use? If you are not using it and you fill the rear end with 80-90 or 90-140, it will probably be a lot quiter. IMHO, lots of IH parts guys want to sell HY-Tran for use in the rear ends of these old tractors and that's way too light for these old girls. If that's what you have in there, it'll whine and clunk to beat the band. BTW, when I was a kid growing up in the '50's, we farmed 800 acres with 4 H's, so I have some experience with them when they were actually working for a living. (My $0.02 worth. jal-SD)
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