Does Park hold on a hill ? Have seen park pawl or tooth on park gear break off and fall down into mfwd gears and lock up front wheels. If you engage front wheels and drive, do you hear and tapping or knocking sounds in drivetrain? If so, I would drain transmission oil and remove the mfwd drop box from under the tractor. You can inspect gears and can look up into the transmission from under there and see the park pawl to inspect it. If broken, tractor needs to be split to replace it.
Front Drive Line Locked Up
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It does hold on a hill and don't hear anything.
Think I'll do what you said, should change the fluid and filter anyway, and this will give me some further insight. Thanks
Think I'll do what you said, should change the fluid and filter anyway, and this will give me some further insight. Thanks
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I hope you get it resolved, strange that all gear boxes were overfilled. Perhaps maintained by someone's low wage..low observational skill hired help.
No good deed goes unpunished, usually what I get when I loan things.
As a side note, I experienced the same odd thing with my '99 4x4 Ranger this past Winter. Went to drive out of the barn, and the rear tires just wanted to dig a hole trying to push the locked front end until I unlocked the hubs. It had me puzzled, local shop couldn't find anything wrong either. It hasn't done it since.
A broken off tooth temporarily lodged in the ring gear is the only explanation that makes sense to me.
No good deed goes unpunished, usually what I get when I loan things.
As a side note, I experienced the same odd thing with my '99 4x4 Ranger this past Winter. Went to drive out of the barn, and the rear tires just wanted to dig a hole trying to push the locked front end until I unlocked the hubs. It had me puzzled, local shop couldn't find anything wrong either. It hasn't done it since.
A broken off tooth temporarily lodged in the ring gear is the only explanation that makes sense to me.
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Changed trans/filter, front axle and hub fluids and nothing found more then some metal dust.
Did not drop the front drive off trans because there was no metal. What I'm thinking happened is the guy tried to shift to a different range without stopping and that stopped the tractor. Then after doing some of the things I mentioned it started working and he called back saying it started working
You are probably correct no good deed goes unpunished
Did find that 3 of the 4 remotes were stuck. Got 2 of the 3 freed up but the last one was so bad I ordered another one. Don't want to sell a tractor with a known issue
Thanks all that responded
Did not drop the front drive off trans because there was no metal. What I'm thinking happened is the guy tried to shift to a different range without stopping and that stopped the tractor. Then after doing some of the things I mentioned it started working and he called back saying it started working
You are probably correct no good deed goes unpunished
Did find that 3 of the 4 remotes were stuck. Got 2 of the 3 freed up but the last one was so bad I ordered another one. Don't want to sell a tractor with a known issue
Thanks all that responded
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I am glad it was operator error, that caused no damage. Fluid & Filter changes will be cheap insurance against future problems.
