50 hours and all **** breaks loose

[jordanh]

I love my ck30. Let me start with that.

Today, I get home and climb on with 49 hours on the meter. I start to do some stuff....moving some gravel, a little finish mowing.

Loader stick is falling off to the side. Its not loose on the jam nut. I had that happen and fixed it in the first 2-3 hours of use. No..something is broken I fear. Still actuates to dump, raise and lower.....but when you let go to let it float it falls over to the right and down like a limp noodle.

Then it gets stuck in 4th gear. Forward and reverse are fine. High and low are fine. Its just stuck in 4th gear.

Its 6:30 pm on easter weekend. DePratt's is closed. I'm screwed.

I guess Monday I'll test out that Kioti Warranty.

Thoughts.....any suggestions for easy fix. I'm not touching anything until I talk to Jon....

I want to puke.

sigh

Jordan

[jordanh]

btw....I don't think its a clutch issue. Clutch working fine to engage and disengage pto, fwd/reverse and hi/lo. I just can't get the 4 speed lever to move out of 4th gear.

Inspecting further, it appears where the linkage goes into the transmission there may be a plate that can be unbolted to accesss the innards short of breaking the tractor in two.

Synchro's stuck/broke? Are there shift forks in this tranny that could have bent causing it to seize up? I trying to think of what could have possibly happened as it just suddenly happened with no noise, no suspicious anything. Just suddenly stuck in 4th.

CRIPES! I need my tractor to work.

[pheesh]

If you didn't break a ball off inside the loader joystick, all you did was lose a screw that holds the pivot in place. Tried to find the extra on I had laying around (from Lowes) but couldn't so I can't tell you the exact size. It's like a 20 or 25 mm hex head screw. You can feel around the rubber housing to see if the ball it loose. You can probably put the screw in from underneath without taking the seat and sheet metal off if you feel adventurous :-).

Posted more detail previously:

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/k...tick-help.html

Can't help you with the stuck gear :-(

[SPYDERLK]

The stud you tightened the jam nut on is now broken.

Your shift linkage is probably trying to engage 2gears at once and a safety exclusion device is preventing it. I would stop trying to shift it until you figure out what technique/adjustment is needed to fix it.
larry

[jordanh]

I was thinking that something had happened to have it jammed up like trying to engage two gears at once. Is this a common problem on geared tractor? What would cause it?

I'm actually starting to like the loader stick hanging down to the right as its out of the way until I need it...then its working fine.