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Fair enough thanks

Fellas you have seen a lot more of these things than I have. Really know nothing other than what I can see with my own 2 eyes. And what I see is very low pressure on the gauge, but there is some pressure. When I shift it into forward and reverse it makes 20+ lbs. When in neutral it makes zero. That ...

Ok so I finally had time to look at this crawler today. I found that with the floorboards out all the linkage seems to be shifting smoothly. I checked the oil regulator valve pressure and found in the neutral position I have zero pressure, and if I shift it into either forward or reverse it slooooow...

I personally don’t think it failed because of low fluid. I had been working it on pretty steep angles earlier in the day pushing sand down a pretty steep bank running uphill and downhill both directions and it worked flawlessly right up to when I stalled it, which was on flat ground

The reverser wasn’t dry, the dipstick was dry, and 3 quarts put it back in operating range

Thanks for the advice fellas. Right now I am using a rented cat 320 hoe and a small wheel loader to clear and level my property but the owner wants them back soon, so I’ve been frantically doing as much work on them as I can. So I haven’t had any free time to look at my crawler yet it’s just sitting...

Hi Leonard My machine has a direct drive pto. No lever on the floor It sounds just like it always did at idle, and when I shift to reverse with the reverser lever it does not make the “reverse whine”. Absolutely nothing happens. I do have the tech manual so I have a basic understanding of how the dr...

Thanks Leonard. Yes I can stop the pto winch shaft by hand. Shifting the reverser in either direction doesn’t affect it either way it just keeps free wheeling and I can still stop it. It is acting just like it did with the engine running and the reverser in nuetral before it quit working. There is z...

Another point to make is, if the isolator has failed from the large amount of resistance when I ran into that frost layer, wouldn’t the motor have continued to run instead of completely stalling?

My guess would be the isolator failed, but no way to verify without pulling the engine. Lavoy Hi Lavoy thanks for your response. I was definitely leaning that way, but here is something strange. The winch drive has always “freewheeled” counter clockwise at a low rpm when the engine was running and ...

Hello folks, unfortunately my first post is because I’m looking for help. I’m sure this question has been asked before but I wasn’t able to find a similar post. I have a 1974 350b I bought from a friend who has owned it for about 40 years. So far I’ve only put about 20 hours on it, and now when I en...