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Wow! Thank you so much. This gives me a place to start. I will let you know what I find out...

No ideas? Seems to be my luck..."never heard of that before"!

Howdy! Got my winch operating cable working now, and found another issue. I can operate the winch in all 3 uses; Pull, Hold and Free spool. When I back up to a log and place the winch in free spool, I can pull the mainline cable by hand for a short period of time, then it becomes harder to pull, the...

Thanks, I bought it.

Thank you for the info. I found the JD web site with the searchable parts catalog. I am mainly interested in learning about operating and maintaining the machine. I operated a crawler in the woods way back in the 70's, but it wasn't my machine, therefore I didn't learn a lot about maintenance. It al...

Thank you! I figured that was the case when I couldn't find anything, and the manuals were $100.00 + on ebay!

Greetings! New to the site. I have purchased a JD Crawler 550 C, around 1978 by the serial number. I am new to crawlers, and am hopeful that I could view an Operator's Manual so I can begin my initial maintenance of this machine. I did a search and found a listing of manuals, but are there any that ...