Clevelandtx
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- Jul 16, 2020
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- Tractor
- Farmtrac 360DTC
Farmtrac 360DTC. My Shuttle Drive Lever will not stay engaged when moving forward. The Shuttle Shifter just pops out of gear in forward only. I have a Farmtrac 360DTC, 39HP with a Shuttle Drive, Full Synchromesh transmission with 380 hours. This seems to be a progressive problem. It started a few months back when it began to get difficult to shift into gear. I found if I double clutched, it then will engage and work fine. At this point I serviced the tractor by changing all fluids, filters and lube. This did nothing to solve the problem. The problem began to get worse, sometimes grinding the gears a bit when trying to engage. I checked the clutch adjustment, and all is good. I also noticed the harder I worked the tractor the harder it would be to get to move from forward to reverse. One day I was really working it hard, moving dirt with the loader and I could no longer engage it in forward or reverse. I left the tractor sit while I did some research. One of the forums said to spike the left and right brakes. Not sure what that has to do with anything, but I was then able to move the tractor by holding it in gear. The next morning everything seemed fine. It just was a little hard to get into gear. I started thinking it was when the tractor was hot that things did not work. That no longer seems to be the case. It consistently pops out of forward gear now and the only way to move it is to hold it in or use reverse. I also notice Reverse is getting hard to engage. I have read some similar posts that talked about detent ball issues but that seems unlikely as this problem seems to be progressively getting worse and reverse although difficult, it engages and stays in gear. Any ideas on what the problem may be? If so, please share the fix and difficultly level and/or approximate cost of the repair?