H Lock Up

Anonymous-0 · Jun 20, 2008

Using the '43 H this evening, pushing some old fence out, to bundle up and get rid of, when suddenly I couldn't shift into any gear. The thing was locked into road gear (5th), but only with the gear shifter in "neutral." I couldn't get the thing into any gear at all, or out of this 5th gear. What the h*ll happened?

JLE · Jun 20, 2008

You pulled the gear shift leaver from 4th and it slipped into 5th. Pull the pin from shift leaver lift out and realine the rails, put back in and go.

Red Mist · Jun 20, 2008

The bottom tip is probably about worn off of your shift lever. You're going to have to pull the shift lever and have it built back up with weld and then reshaped to fit the forks. While that is going on, you will need to find a way to access the forks and line everything back up in the neutral dentent position, in preparation for re-installation. This happens all the time on 60+ year old tractors. Not too difficult to repair. mike

JLE · Jun 20, 2008

Another thought if you don't have a belt pulley attachment, you can pull cover off (front of trans) and realine the fork there to.

Daniel 13655 · Jun 20, 2008

Thanks, guys. I feel a h*ll of a lot better now than I did. I had visions of cracked or broken gears, etc. OK, doesn't sound all that bad. I'll let you know how it all turns out.

NDS · Jun 20, 2008

I would pull shifter and line up gears like others have said and run it a while without doing anything else. Have seen full time working tractors hang up like that and then go years before it happened again. In my experience they usually get crossed up when trying to shift without clutch being fully released. My A used to get in 2 gears and lock up but was always able to straighten it out by playing around with shift lever and for some reason it has not hung up in last 20 years or so.

Daniel 13655 · Jun 21, 2008

Thanks, again, guys. I'll look at this thing in the morning -- my daughter wants to help (she's my Farmall Pal).

mkirsch · Jun 21, 2008

You might be able to slip the gear shift back without removing it. It's tricky, but I've seen my dad do it a couple of times when I messed up and got the M locked in two gears as a kid. He never pulled the shift lever.

In the ensuing years, I always make my shifts "square." Shift lever goes straight ahead into neutral, lever is slid straight sideways to the next gear pair, and lever goes straight into the next gear.

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