Stuck Clutch on an A

[RobRightmyer]

Had some mice fill up the bell housing and the clutch is stuck pretty bad. We've been pulling it and switching gears. Cleaned it out. Sprayed some liquid wrench type stuff in. Even tried putting some diesel in and letting it slosh.

Are there any other cures besides splitting the tractor?

Thanks,
Rob

 

[Fritz Maurer]

Reach up through the hand hole and unbolt the pressure plate and pry the disk free.

 

[caterpillar guy]

I suppose you could drive it around in an open field and stab the brakes hard several times to see if that would work. Other wise as Fritz said or split time. I would want to see if it is just stuck to the flywheel or stuck on the shaft .Reason being if stuck on the shaft it might become necessary to split to get to it better. Though if split it would solve the stuck shaft problem before it was all the way apart. A 1/4 inch would unstick the shaft.

 

[RobRightmyer]

Thanks for the help. I've driven around using the brake as well with no luck.

Thanks also for the comment about unbolting the pressure plate. Do you think there is enough room to unbolt it? Seems very small but might be worth a try.

Otherwise, anyone have a link to inexpensive splitting stands?

 

[grandpa Love]

Thanks for the help. I've driven around using the brake as well with no luck.

Thanks also for the comment about unbolting the pressure plate. Do you think there is enough room to unbolt it? Seems very small but might be worth a try.

Otherwise, anyone have a link to inexpensive splitting stands?

We split several off set Farmalls every year and replace clutches.......we use a stack of 4x4 wood cribbing under the motor and a harbor freight transmission jack under the torque tube to slide the rear away. We use more 4x,4 blocks and a couple 2x,12 x8' boards to get the jack high enough and make a "run way" to roll back on. Hour to an hour and a half to do a clutch job and drive away.

 

[crsutton81]

Had some mice fill up the bell housing and the clutch is stuck pretty bad. We've been pulling it and switching gears. Cleaned it out. Sprayed some liquid wrench type stuff in. Even tried putting some diesel in and letting it slosh.

Are there any other cures besides splitting the tractor?

Thanks,
Rob

We have split them multiple ways. It all depends on what kind of floor we had to use in the facility that we needed to use at the time. Grandpa Loves method works fine also. The last several we had to do, the main shop was available, so I cobbled up a set of angle iron stands with adjustable set bolt screws as the feet to hold the rear half up and in place. I then used the engine hoist to lift and roll the front half away. Just be advised that you will need to tightly stuff some wood on each side of the front axle pivot point to keep the engine retained upright, and not try to flop over causing a problem for realignment on the bell housing bolt holes.

 

[RobRightmyer]

Thanks very much for all the help. Especially like Grandpa Love's time estimate. Too bad you are far away from Bethel Grove, NY.

 

[Jordan Goodwin]

We split several off set Farmalls every year and replace clutches.......we use a stack of 4x4 wood cribbing under the motor and a harbor freight transmission jack under the torque tube to slide the rear away. We use more 4x,4 blocks and a couple 2x,12 x8' boards to get the jack high enough and make a "run way" to roll back on. Hour to an hour and a half to do a clutch job and drive away.

Kevin, I see HF has several different weight ratings of transmission jacks. Which one do you think is suitable for splitting an A?

 

[caterpillar guy]

Your only talking about barely a tone of weight for the whole tractor with loaded tires and weights. so half that and if the jack is under the rear half less than half of the weight so only about 500 pounds probably. Two big guys with the front blocked could probably just sling a strap under the front end of the rear half and hold it up while they pushed the back half back by hand. Just not that much weight there. Not like splitting a 1466 that weights in at about 14,000.

 

[grandpa Love]

Kevin, I see HF has several different weight ratings of transmission jacks. Which one do you think is suitable for splitting an A?

I don't remember which one we bought....any label has been long worn off. We bought it for the manual transmission in the F-250.....

 

[Fritz Maurer]

If you have never split a tractor before, I'd recommend the proper stands. Doesn't matter how small that tractor is, you can still get hurt making the wrong move.

Experienced guys know what they can get away with , support/cribbing wise. You must know at all times what is going to happen when you take out a bolt, what is going to go where.

My neighbor was pounding a pin out of an implement tongue, unknowingly with upward force against the tractor drawbar. When it let go, it somehow got out from under the drawbar and hit him in the face. He was lucky. Got away with a bloody nose.

Just be careful with this stuff.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

Kevin, I see HF has several different weight ratings of transmission jacks. Which one do you think is suitable for splitting an A?

Any of them are, but why not buy once cry once and get the largest one they offer? Then you know it will be able to do it all!