Ford tractor 800 series

Hello,My ford 800 tractor was submurged in water a little over the foot rests and filled the clutch housing with water.Now the clutch will not disengauge when running enabling it to be put in gear(grinds).Something must be stuck.Any suggestions to brake it free would be appricated.I've already tried turning over the starter with the clutch peddal depressed and the brake held on.Still chugs along with starter driving it.Thank you Arn

So does it start and run? If yes, my suggestion is get her running and moving, once moving put a heavy load on it, drag an implement, pull a heavy load up a hill etc.. with the clutch peddle in. Be prepared if she snaps free to not roll backwards or something like that. If she free's up use it a few times before you let it sit again.

Not and expert, but you cannot lube it in anyway without possible getting the clutch soaked and ruining it.

L.

First off make sure the bell housing drain hole is open so the bell housing drains. Next block the clutch pedal down for a few days. If you have a nice big open area that you can drive it around in start it up let it run a few minutes so as to make it easy to start. The turn it off and start it in as high a gear as you can and drive it around but do that only if you have some place you can do that safely. You can also pull the starter off and spray the clutch area with spray brake cleaner but you also need to turn the engine over as you do that to get the whole clutch area.

i"ve got a "62 2000 thats basically same tractor...clutch sticks on occasion and i rig up a starter switch so tractor can be started from drivers seat...i start it in gear and drive it around working clutch pedal up and down...sometimes revving up engine with clutch pedal down helps too...i"ve driven around for close to an hour before the rust broke loose on pilot shaft...considerably less time than splitting tractor.
make sure your transmission has clean oil in it if tractor was submerged that deep.
good luck and be carefull!

All good suggestions so far but another thing to try that hasn't been mentioned is a spin off of all of the suggestion. If you have a push bar on the front, or the axel sticks out far enough to put against a tree, get it started and let it sit pushing against the tree with the clutch pushed in. Often times this will break one lose when the other ways don't because of the vibrations sent back through the drivetrain due to the lugs on the rear hitting the ground and 'bouncing' things a bit as the tires spin. Another good thing about doing it this way is you don't have to have a huge area to drive around, you don't need an implement hooked to it, and you don't have to worry about it rolling backwards, etc, when the clutch comes unstuck because all you'll do is keep trying to push the tree over. Good luck.

Brother-in law who worked at the local A-C dealership many years ago told me to do this and it's never failed me, though I've never un-stuck a Phord clutch. SECURELY block or tie the clutch pedal down; put the transmission in neutral; start the engine; set it to run at fast idle and walk off and leave it. Never had one that didn't come unstuck within a few minutes, but YEMV............

The other guys have just about covered the most common ways. My father-in-law had a Ford 861. The clutch stuck on it just about every winter. I once had to split it and take a chisel to separate the flywheel and clutch disk with the pressure plate removed. I made him a block just the right length to hold the clutch pedal down. I put a short chain on it so it hung right there by the pedal. He then would block the clutch down every time he parked it for the day. I never had to split it again after that. His problem was that it might set for months at a time after he retired. Five cent block of wood saved a lot of trouble.

An old timer at one of the dealers I worked at had a clever way to unstick one, that would get the medium hard ones unstuck.

1)Remove the back spark plug. Roll the engine over to top dead center. Then turn it back 1/2 turn. This way you know it is coming back up on compression.

2) Put a pint of gear oil in the spark plug hole.

3) Reinstall the spark plug.

4) Take a chain and another tractor. Pull the stuck tractor forward with it in gear with the clutch held down. SLOWLY!!!! When it comes up on compression the oil will lock the engine. Then it should break free. If it does not then it will slide the rear wheels. If this happens pull slowly ahead until it is tight then just rock it back and forth. They usually will break free this way.

5) After it is broken free then remove the plug and crank it over to blow the oil out of the cylinder.

6) Reinstall the plug and you should be good to go.


The oil was a safe way to hold the engine from turning while you pulled it.