3016 Stuck in Neutral

Dalmatian90 · Mar 13, 2016

Was working on repairing the driveway with a Ratchet Rake, doing a lot of shuttling -- usually backing up in 1st Lo, going forward in 4th Lo.

Went to shift into 4th and now it's stuck in Neutral.

It's in neutral since I can roll the tractor back by hand easily. The Hi-Low moves freely. The 4wd on/off moves freely.

Dealer closed on Sundays. (Almost thinking I may drive out to see if his lot is open so I can look at another transmission if any are similar).

I'm suspicious "A" is supposed to line up with "B" but I'm not positive, and that I have to get a wrench onto A to pull it back to let it pop into B. But I'm kind of hesitant to try without running it by folks.

Any advice?

Dalmatian90 · Mar 13, 2016

Yep...ran to the dealer, found another tractor with the same transmission so I knew for sure how it worked.

Put an adjustable wrench on the bottom linkage to the transmission, and popped everything back into place so A lined up with B and life was good again

George2615 · Mar 13, 2016

Glad it was a simple fix

Billrog · Mar 13, 2016

Very good :thumbsup:

DavesTractor · Mar 14, 2016

About once a year we get a new post like this, and it is always what you described. Good for you to figure it out, and by reading this others will have a heads-up.

farm boy00 · Mar 15, 2016

What brand tractor. Looks like a really comfy user friendly tractor

Dalmatian90 · Mar 15, 2016

farm boy00 said:
What brand tractor. Looks like a really comfy user friendly tractor

Mahindra.

Gave me the most bang-for-the-buck so I didn't look at many others seriously.

I did sit in an equivalent Deere afterwards, and was surprised mine was more comfortable for me.

Did sit on a couple Massey Fergusons before I bought...found their "Economy" line was about the same...liked their "Premium" line better, but I couldn't have afforded as much even in the Economy line. Might've been able to negotiate them closer on price to the Mahindra, but I don't like dickering.

No Kubota or New Holland in my immediate area (more like 30+ minutes away), so they weren't on my list both for price and accessibility.

130 machine hours on it, which is calibrated to 2500rpm...so a lot more seat time than the hours would indicate since I'm seldom up in that range. Even doing backhoe work I usually run at 1700rpm. Anyway, so far very happy and this was the first real "WTF?" I've had.

Oh, and the oil is a pain to check -- either it was designed for someone Japanese sized (Mitsubishi built it), or for not having a loader mounted, or both.