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If you don't already have a service manual, you need to get one and do some studying. You are making assumptions that may or may not be accurate. Until you get a better handle on how the machine operates, I don't think we are going to be able to figure out the problem. Lavo Apologies, I'm just tryi...

I may have missed it; but is yours a 440IC ,gasoline, or 440ICD ,diesel, not that it really makes a difference in the function of things. Do you have the proper John Deere manuals (Operator's and Service) for your machine? The levers you pull back on are steering levers, multifunction, not specific...

Went out and tested it just now. Started off a bit better, got a few feet out of the barn and then it would just stop moving when trying to turn. Put it in reverse and went about a foot and stopped, engine sounded like it may be straining a bit but not much. I did not think I was going to get back i...

Hey guys, thank you for all the responses. I did not do the work, so I don't know if the clutch is in backwards, but I'm wondering if it is that or maybe fluid on the new clutch. The way mine is set up, the reversers do not work, you put it in a transmission gear and that is the direction you go. Yo...

Thanks Lavoy. That's my thinking too. Before the clutch replacement it took off as soon as you started it. I would have never had it replaced if it had not gotten to where it would not go in gear unless I started it in gear.

Hi all, I recently had some work done on my 1959 440. It got to where I could not get it into gear, so I had the clutch replaced along with some rollers, and fluid replacement. Bear in mind this was not full clutch replacement, it only goes back and forwards using the gearbox. That is the way it was...

I appreciate that. There is a lot to learn with tracked equipment :) But honestly this is the best purchase I have ever made equipment-wise so I have no complaints if I need to put a bit of money into it and learn some new things. I may contact that vendor once I am able to work on it, hopefully thi...

Hey guys, thanks for the information. Sorry for such a slow reply.

I'll definitely check the rest of the rollers, and may be purchasing a few. I'm not quite sure about what to measure for the diameter, but I'll be checking back in once I get to where I find out for sure what all I'll need.

Hi everyone, I am new here so bear with me. I recently bought a 1959 JD440 dozer to help clean up my land. I freaking love it. Overall it runs great and I have been very happy with it. I noticed the other day that one of the rollers, the one right next to the right back sprocket(the big gear looking...