Posted by Ultradog MN on July 29, 2022 at 17:32:10 from (172.58.83.95):
In Reply to: Ford select o speed posted by Bprussell9 on July 29, 2022 at 07:16:46:
The guys who like them love them. I had a 1966 3 cylinder 4000 with SOS. I liked the tractor but hated the transmission. The SOS lovers said I didn't know how to drive it. Well maybe. But I have driven a lot of things in my life. From a 988 Cat loader to dozers to an old dragline I had, to twin stick end dumps and 9 and 13 speed transmissions in road trucks. I wasn't always smooth and perfectly proficient with them but give me a few hours with one and I can make them work tolerably well. I drove that SOS for 2 years and never learned I guess. Put one in park and they will continue creep a little. They have a little pedal where the clutch pedal normally is. Ford called it an 'inching pedal'. A yarding pedal was a better term. Trying to inch backwards to hook up to an implement was Very hard to accomplish. Some of the shifts between ranges were so hard and abrupt they shook the fillings out of your teeth. And using it with a back blade to level out gravel for a garage pad doing a lot of forward and reversing was pure punishment. Did I mention I hated it! Then there is the issue of their complexity. It doesn't take a real smart guy to split a tractor to replace a clutch. A little harder but not a whole lot is taking an 8 speed Ford transmission apart to replace a bearing or some such. The I&T manual covers it all in 8 pages. To overhaul an SOS the same manual takes 27 pages. Then there's parts. Shifter cables, torque limiting clutches and input shafts for the pre 65 SOSs have not been manufactured for many years. So if you need those parts it is like the Dirty Harry movie: 'Do you feel lucky Punk? Well do ya?' But, but, but an SOS you can shift on the fly the lovers say. Hmmm, how often do I really need to do that? That SOS I had worked perfectly. So after owning and running it on occasion for 2 years I ripped it out and sold it. Then replaced it with an 8 speed. Like that tractor even more now and I will never own another SOS. Sorry this got so long but I promised the guys on the Ford board I would lay off hating those transmissions there. But this is Tractor Talk board so I let it rip.
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