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Anonymous-0

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I can upshift on the road very well on the four speed of my 1466 pulling a load. I never could downshift without bringing the tractor to a very slow speed or near stop. My driveway is such that I want to go fast on the road but slow down going down into the driveway without stopping on the road. The road is very busy and the driveway is WAY too dangerous to go down in 4th gear. I've tried slowing it down, double clutching to drop it into 3rd, and 2nd but it still grinds until I brake almost to a stop. What am I doing wrong? Any good techniques? Thanks in advance.
 
slow way down then grab a handful of the torque amplifier if so equipped and functioning. make the turn, throttle up and shift the ta again.
 
Pulling the TA to slow a load is the fastest way to make it a non functioning TA. Its just the nature of the beast. The non synchronized gears do not make down shifting easy. You have to slow your ground speed so the gear speeds match up. Best way is to throttle down, use your brakes to slow then open the throttle while down shifting to attempt to synchronize gear speeds.
 
have you tried double clutching it? cut the throttle back to about 1/3 and let her slow down a bit. Clutch into neutral, and run the throttle back up a bit. Clutch it again, and put it into the next lowest gear.

Edit: I re-read your first post, and I see that you have tried double clutching. That should work if you are doing it right. IMHO
 
One of the best ways known for knocking chip out of tractor transmission gears is to try to shift while in motion.
 
NDS, it would be hard to argue with you on that (which btw, I am about to do).

Any manual transmission without a synchronizer in it (alot of older trucks and cars) will be prone to "grinding a pound" if not shifted right. Double clutching gets the clutch plate RPM's close to the tranny gear RPM's so that the "mesh up" is much less violent.

Try driving an old pickup that the synchro-mesh went out in! The old cliche "double clutching" means to slow down, which in the old days was the only way to down shift a standard tranny.

I guess I am showing my age.
 
I can shift class 8 unsynronized transmission with up to 18 speeds top to bottom and bottom to top without a scratch without using clutch but that does not work for me on tractor.
 
(quoted from post at 17:19:22 08/24/10) slow way down then grab a handful of the torque amplifier if so equipped and functioning. make the turn, throttle up and shift the ta again.
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I don't think he is saying to use the TA to slow the load, he is saying to do it after you have slowed down all the way. (That is how I am reading it)
 
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