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    MF 240 stuck gear problem

    It's not me that gets them stuck in gear it's one of any of the drivers who is in a hurry with a team of a dozen waiting for them with full bags etc. The deliberate following of H pattern gets forgotten for a moment. I've drawn the gearbox assembly in an attempt to educate them on what is going...
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    MF 240 stuck gear problem

    I've seen the threads detailing the fix for the classic stuck gear problem for MF240 tractors. We run a fleet of 8 of them for our harvest season 3 months of the year and for us it is the silent grenade waiting to go off in each machine, we forget about it for weeks or months then at seemingly...
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    MF240 sticky clutch

    Hi Guys, I've got an MF240 here with a clutch that is playing up while mowing, i mow in High 2nd at ~540rpm and am finding 1/3 times now maybe when going to reverse I struggle to get it out of 2nd, and then graunch it terribly going into reverse (even though I've stopped before going to neutral...
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    Control valve on post rammer

    Oldnslo, I think you're right about the valve after poking around some more. Reversing spool would only enable the other port to do the same thing. So I'll rule out the valve configuration. The low pressure return is a threaded fitting. See picture below. The smallest 'choke point' is probably...
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    Control valve on post rammer

    Hello, first time poster here, and first time working on hydraulics so please excuse any ignorance and incorrect terminology etc. I was hoping to get some advice about this control valve on a post rammer Dad has asked me to look at. It had a few issues which I have cleared up just by dissembling...
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