Re: Ford select o speed

Posted by Ultradog MN on July 29, 2022 at 17:32:10 from (172.58.83.95):

In Reply to: Ford select o speed posted by Bprussell9 on July 29, 2022 at 07:16:46:

The guys who like them love them.
I had a 1966 3 cylinder 4000 with SOS.
I liked the tractor but hated the
transmission.
The SOS lovers said I didn't know how to
drive it.
Well maybe. But I have driven a lot of
things in my life. From a 988 Cat loader to
dozers to an old dragline I had, to twin
stick end dumps and 9 and 13 speed
transmissions in road trucks.
I wasn't always smooth and perfectly
proficient with them but give me a few
hours with one and I can make them work
tolerably well.
I drove that SOS for 2 years and never
learned I guess.
Put one in park and they will continue
creep a little.
They have a little pedal where the clutch
pedal normally is. Ford called it an
'inching pedal'. A yarding pedal was a
better term.
Trying to inch backwards to hook up to an
implement was Very hard to accomplish.
Some of the shifts between ranges were so
hard and abrupt they shook the fillings out
of your teeth. And using it with a back
blade to level out gravel for a garage pad
doing a lot of forward and reversing was
pure punishment.
Did I mention I hated it!
Then there is the issue of their
complexity.
It doesn't take a real smart guy to split a
tractor to replace a clutch. A little
harder but not a whole lot is taking an 8
speed Ford transmission apart to replace a
bearing or some such. The I&T manual covers
it all in 8 pages.
To overhaul an SOS the same manual takes 27
pages.
Then there's parts.
Shifter cables, torque limiting clutches
and input shafts for the pre 65 SOSs have
not been manufactured for many years. So if
you need those parts it is like the Dirty
Harry movie:
'Do you feel lucky Punk? Well do ya?'
But, but, but an SOS you can shift on the
fly the lovers say.
Hmmm, how often do I really need to do
that?
That SOS I had worked perfectly.
So after owning and running it on occasion
for 2 years I ripped it out and sold it.
Then replaced it with an 8 speed.
Like that tractor even more now and
I will never own another SOS.
Sorry this got so long but I promised the
guys on the Ford board I would lay off
hating those transmissions there.
But this is Tractor Talk board so I let it
rip.

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