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you adjust the tracks by pumping grease in the fitting on the arm right behind the front idler

looked through all my manuals and cant find anything on engine model,,,im thinking its a 4219 but im not sure...thanks for any help

also where can i find a used one?

i some how lost my oil stick out of a 450 c..can some one please measure their stick and tell me how long it is to the full and add marks?? im using it and it will be awhile before i can get a new one. thanks

have run it about 60 hours since ,,alls well with it sofar,, its been down in the 20s at night, it fires up after 30 sec or so. im building a pond,,, neighbors call it a lake,, but its a pond.

you could fill it up with water a few times and drain that ..should get most of it,,,run it until its hot should mix it up good

well we got it out, ended up welding a nut to it.. sure was stuck.

you don't mean rubbing alcohol do you ,, i know im not the first to do this,, but i might be the first to screw it up.

a tree fell in between the blade and the front of the tractor, it hit just right and busted off the angle cylinder coupling right where it goes into the cylinder, i tried and easy out,, but no luck yet, thinking of heating it some...any ideas before i mess it up?

if its not firing on those, best to replace them, john deere's price here was $83 each, you can get them online cheaper and probably the same ones as deere has.

i have checked the fluid level and its good, this as been like this for 15 years, i have no idea why it does this but its not a big deal to me to use it for a few min in high then shift it to low, mostly i do this where the dozer is down hill and will still be moving when i shift it. then it kicks i...

heres what i did to mine, i took 12 gauge copper wire and and made one wrap around those pins anywhere i could, kind of like a copper washer really is all it is. took the slack out of mine, i should check that again to see how it looks now,, i aint had much slop for the last 10 years since i did thi...

thanks Tigerhaze, thats good info.

one more thing that has me puzzled is my dozer has a PTO but no where to control it,, no lever on the floor where i have seen others! i took the cover off when i bought it to see if it was just a dummy plate ,, but the shaft is there and it turns all the time! any thoughts on this?

seems kind of slow around here,, so i have a question or problem to solve. 450C,, My low will never work first thing, the only way i can get it to work is to work it in high for a few minutes then shift it into low while its moving. after i do this its works all day strong when ever i need low. What...