Shifting a Farmall C

[Russ from MN]

I have been driving Farmall's for 55 years, but when someone asked about shifting into high last week I couldn't explain it. Today I drove ours to town and the parade so I paid attention! When I get out on the road I wind it up to about 3/4 throttle in 3rd, then clutch in, throttle back to an idle, and then slip it into 4th, clutch out and give it some throttle again. Ours will shift like this with very little gear grinding or clutch slipping.

 

[jCarroll]

That's the way it works best for me.

I wondered if the poster was trying to start in 4th from a dead stop???

 

[gab]

I had the same problem, home on the farm we had a new 53 Super C I spent a lot of time on, then bought my own thirty years ago but can't remember having it in high gear for about ten years.