C-165 No Go

[rfhouser 3]

Stevasaurus, the tranny went back together beautifully — thanks to your guidance! Those videos that you shared are indispensable   .

The proof will be in the pudding, when I get back in the saddle and tell it to giddyup!

There is no way to guide both shift levers up through the frame rails, because the brake cross-over shaft (from the brake pedal on the right to the brake linkage on the left)

is in the way. I will either take the tranny off once more and angle it down to try to sneak the hi/lo lever under the brake part, or I will have to dismantle the brake assembly

to get it out of the way. 

But this will have to wait a week, as I am off on a photographic safari, north along the New England coast. Fenway Park tomorrow evening (I am, for what it is worth, a  NY Yankee's fan)

and in Maine for lobster by Wednesday. So it probably won't be until next Sunday that I have a chance to work this problem out. 

If anyone else has run into this problem, I would love to learn just how you solved it. This whole project has been like a wonderful puzzle (and,so far, I don't have any pieces left over!).

[WH854 45]

Stevasaurus, the tranny went back together beautifully — thanks to your guidance! Those videos that you shared are indispensable   .

The proof will be in the pudding, when I get back in the saddle and tell it to giddyup!

There is no way to guide both shift levers up through the frame rails, because the brake cross-over shaft (from the brake pedal on the right to the brake linkage on the left)

is in the way. I will either take the tranny off once more and angle it down to try to sneak the hi/lo lever under the brake part, or I will have to dismantle the brake assembly

 

 

You will not be able to get  the shifter under that brake crossover shaft without doing more damage than you need   (my advice is take the brake part out  it's much easily that way) been their and done that  And I don't think the brake assembly was in before the transmission was installed at the factory.

Chas

Edited May 6, 2013 by WH854

[stevasaurus 23,689]

I would listen to Chas here...even the manual says you may have to figure it out with each tractor.    Thanks Chas.