[Farmall] International A shifting lever problems

[ebony51 at frontiernet.net]

John, I think this one is a bit different than what you describe.  There is a spring on the the shifting lever, but mainly it functions to hold the gear shift swivel shield down.   

There is a pin or shaft that goes through the gear shift swivel shaft (and short of a ball there) that holds the gear shift lever into the transmission. I am assuming the transmission end of the shift level needs built up a bit.  

I looked at "Yesterdays Tractors" on someone said 1/4 inch.  Someone else said weld as needed.  So, I suppose built it up 3/8, try and see how it works, and grind it down if needs less.  Wished I had a TIG welder.  I just have an old Forney stick welder that is on the fritz right now.  I assume it is not too complicated to weld it up a bit...not sure what rod to use though.

Thanks

Larry Hardesty

----- Original Message -----
From: "john hall" <jtchall at nc.rr.com>
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Sent: Friday, July 9, 2010 9:24:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Farmall] International A shifting lever problems

I've worked on a couple that had to have the ball end welded up and ground 
back down. Tig welder works the best if you acess to one. I don't remember 
welding them up to a specific size--just got them spherical again. Also 
there are some springs and balls that keep everything in/out of gear. I 
think those springs break sometimes. Helped dad fix one a couple years ago 
but can't remember exactly what we had to do. I want to say you slide the 
track far enough back and expose the hole in the casting that you load the 
ball and spring into. Once the broken pieces are changed you have to hold 
them down with a punch until you slide the track back over top of it to keep 
them from flying across the shop. You may want to take at look at the parts 
book first--go to CaseIH website and pull up the parts book.

John
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From: <ebony51 at frontiernet.net>
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Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 9:50 PM
Subject: [Farmall] International A shifting lever problems


>I am getting all too good at taking the transmission cover off on my 1946 
>International A and unjamming the gears.  I assume the shifting lever is 
>worn, making it easy to jam the gears.  Anybody know the dimensions is 
>should be before I weld it up to a larger size?  Or is there a reason to 
>think my problem is something else.
>
> Thanks
>
> Larry Hardesty
> _______________________________________________

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