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i'm going down tonight and I can measure the blade width. yes, I hauled it down with my F250 and 20ft trailer.

I picked up an old 440 crawler loader a few years back and rebuilt both steering final drives with clutches and brake bands from Lavoy. It ran great (diesel) and the hydraulics worked great. I then cleaned it and painted it with a brush. I took it down to my camp in West Virginia where I am building...

thanks for the reply. I will pull the cover and check it out. It does not have the reverser. I was going thru the gears with the engine running.

My brother was using my 440 track loader and after going in reverse he shifted back into first gear and the machine quit moving. This machine is 4 hours away at my camp in West Virginia. I went down that weekend to look at it and the clutch pedal feels normal, you can shift into all gears with or wi...

thanks for the info, I'll look at the parts breakdown.

I recently bought a 1959 JD 440 crawler loader. I had to rebuild both steering clutches. Now that I can move it around I noticed that I can't keep the idle up. When I move the lever up for more RPM's the lever slowly moves back down to low idle. How do you keep the lever in place ?

thanks,
Duane

I have a 440 crawler loader. the bucket controls are on top of the right side fender. i have developed a leaking hose. it is the big hose that comes out of the controls, down the back and up to the front along the left side above the belly pan. where does this attach at the front ? will i have to re...