Richard
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- Joined
- Apr 6, 2000
- Messages
- 4,993
- Location
- Knoxville, TN
- Tractor
- International 1066 Full sized JCB Loader/Backhoe and a John Deere 430 to mow with
This is a strange one.
I check my fluids every couple months verses every use. (actually, for as much as I use it, it MIGHT BE every couple months!!)
So other day was taking some stuff in my wheel barrow (backhoe) to the burn pile. Drove up....raised bucket, dumped.... "clicked" to go into reverse and nothing.
Clicky, clickty click.... nothing. NOW it won't even go into forward. Happened instantly as though someone pulled a plug out of the wall.
Hmmm... probably a time I should have checked my transmission fluid (my dash lights are intermittent)
Sat there, machine idling, suddenly it would go forward! So drove it closer to home, parked in field and started to look around.
Having had company, I've still not put more than 5 minutes into "poking around" but, the first thing I DID notice was, when I pulled the dipstick out for the transmission fluid (which is more of a "springy" rod verses a stamped rod).... I noticed it was low on fluid so got a quart & put it in.
Pulled dipstick out again and now it dawned on me.... something is odd with it.... yeah... it doesn't seem as long nor as hard to insert as normal. What's up....
Look closer and I'm going to guess the bottom six inches has finally let go. It has literally fallen in two while located in its proper place. There was always (for 15 years) a small "kink" in it and it came to me that way so I never thought anything about it.
Looks like it's now separated at the kink and the lower half is somewhere deeper down.
So now I'm left wondering do I have an annoyance or, do I have a bona-fide problem?
I had the transmission cover off my IH-1066 and a bolt dropped down into the transmission. I searched in vain to find it and it simply disappeared. I was told to forget it, it was at the bottom. Ran machine and nothing happened so all was good. Later, I pulled rear PTO out to fix. While out, took a magnet on a stick and generally, fished around and VIOLA, found the old bolt!! So now I know it's out.
What I'm wondering on the JCB is might fortune strike me twice? Could this slither down to the lower end and just lay there?
I have (what was described to me) a service manual but it's FAR FAR short of what I usually see as a service manual.
Any thoughts are appreciated.
I check my fluids every couple months verses every use. (actually, for as much as I use it, it MIGHT BE every couple months!!)
So other day was taking some stuff in my wheel barrow (backhoe) to the burn pile. Drove up....raised bucket, dumped.... "clicked" to go into reverse and nothing.
Clicky, clickty click.... nothing. NOW it won't even go into forward. Happened instantly as though someone pulled a plug out of the wall.
Hmmm... probably a time I should have checked my transmission fluid (my dash lights are intermittent)
Sat there, machine idling, suddenly it would go forward! So drove it closer to home, parked in field and started to look around.
Having had company, I've still not put more than 5 minutes into "poking around" but, the first thing I DID notice was, when I pulled the dipstick out for the transmission fluid (which is more of a "springy" rod verses a stamped rod).... I noticed it was low on fluid so got a quart & put it in.
Pulled dipstick out again and now it dawned on me.... something is odd with it.... yeah... it doesn't seem as long nor as hard to insert as normal. What's up....
Look closer and I'm going to guess the bottom six inches has finally let go. It has literally fallen in two while located in its proper place. There was always (for 15 years) a small "kink" in it and it came to me that way so I never thought anything about it.
Looks like it's now separated at the kink and the lower half is somewhere deeper down.
So now I'm left wondering do I have an annoyance or, do I have a bona-fide problem?
I had the transmission cover off my IH-1066 and a bolt dropped down into the transmission. I searched in vain to find it and it simply disappeared. I was told to forget it, it was at the bottom. Ran machine and nothing happened so all was good. Later, I pulled rear PTO out to fix. While out, took a magnet on a stick and generally, fished around and VIOLA, found the old bolt!! So now I know it's out.
What I'm wondering on the JCB is might fortune strike me twice? Could this slither down to the lower end and just lay there?
I have (what was described to me) a service manual but it's FAR FAR short of what I usually see as a service manual.
Any thoughts are appreciated.