[AT] Spam> Re: TO-20 Ferguson & roadranger

charlie hill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Sun Feb 10 12:55:47 PST 2013


The tricky part is when you are cruising along in 12th or 13th gear and some 
idiot
pulls out or slams on breaks in front of you while you are going up or down 
a grade
and all of a sudden you have to figure out how to get into 5th gear ...... 
or do you need
6th or ............... oh S#!^

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ron Cook
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 3:02 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Spam> Re: TO-20 Ferguson & roadranger

Yup.  Exactly right.  But it is danged hard to do in my truck.  It might
have alot to do with throttle sensitivity.  Like I previously said,
going into the next gear is easy.  Coming out of the current gear is the
tough part.  I just use the clutch a little to make it easy.
Ron Cook

On 2/10/2013 1:04 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> I'm hesitant to comment beyond what I have so far because it's been
> so long but what always worked for me was to apply light pressure against
> the shift lever and lift my foot from the throttle in a controlled 
> fashion.
> You'll feel the pressure come off of the gear lever and it will want to 
> come
> out of
> gear.  When it does pull it into neutral and again apply light pressure to
> the next gear
> position and slowly adjust the throttle until you feel it want to go in
> gear.
>
> That's the way I remember it.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Cook
> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 1:24 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Spam> Re: TO-20 Ferguson & roadranger
>
> Cecil,
>       My 3406 comes off the rpm too quick for easy shifting, also.  It is
> a technique to not lift all the way to make the shift.  I am usually
> unsuccessful at it and unload with the clutch to get out of the current
> gear.
>       Nothing quite like 50 plus years of experience and missing shifts
> looking like an amateur, is there?
> Ron Cook
> Salix, IA
> On 2/10/2013 7:56 AM, Cecil R Bearden wrote:
>> That is exactly how the Spicers work for me, but 1/2 of the time I grind
>> the Roadranger.  My old 3406 cats are pretty quick on the throttle.  I
>> don't have near the problem with the 400 Cummins and RTO9513 in the
>> Freightliner.  I have thought about putting a power Rollback bed on the
>> Freightliner, With  my insurance rates, I am trying to find a heavy duty
>> Pintle hook trailer that I can haul my trackhoe and loader on and get
>> rid of the Semi & Lowboy trailer.   The rollback is heavy enough to haul
>> a D6 on.
>>
>> Cecil in OKla
>>
>>
>>
>>

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