Guys, Not quite a question on TLB, however still a tractor. Has anyone worked on a 1996 JD 5300 2WD tractor? I picked one up on the weekend for a cheap price with 4,500 hours on it. A road works company had been using it with a hydraulic broom on the back of it for road sweeping so it hasn't done any hard work. The clutch won't disengage at all. The pedal/rods move fine and the PTO will disengage, however main clutch is suspect. There is no shuttle shift like our JCB 3CX backhoe. Has anyone ever experienced this type of problem with this type of machine? We figure we're going to have to split the tractor and pull the clutch out to see what is going on inside there. It would be nice to know if there are any tricks to pulling these things apart or any known issues with the dry clutches etc. Also does anyone have a paper/CD/PDF manual for this machine? Thanks, Karl
I don't know anything about this particular tractor but if it's got a dry clutch and it's been sitting outside for months without being used that clutch plates can rust together. You can try something simple like hold in the clutch and drive it around till it gets good and warm. High gear strains the clutch the most so you can run it up and down the road, wide open throttle and drive up hills. If your lucky it will detach. Also there may be a hole in the bell housing where you can reach a pry between the clutch plates while holding the clutch pedal down. I'm sure someone that knows your model will help you out soon.
Thanks Deon. I think the tractor has been sitting outside for a while. We'll give it a go in the next week or so and see what happens. The tractor is now sitting inside the shed.
5000 series deere have a dry clutch
I have had the same issue as Deon described on an old 8N ford. I did the same as dion recomended and after 15-20 of riding with the clutch pedal down, it broke free. Now when I let it sit for any length of time, I hold the clutch pedal down with a 2 x 4. John
Well we had a good crack at trying to loosen the clutch a week or so ago. Even driving in high gears for over 1/2 an hour with the clutch fully depressed didn't disengage drive. Unfortunately if it is seized, it won't budge. The inspection plate allows us to see the clutch, however we think we are looking at the PTO side of the clutch which works anyway. Looks like we'll have to find time soon to split the tractor and see what's going on inside the bell housing. We had to spend our last free time repacking a few badly leaking cylinders on the backhoe... Karl
Update. We got the clutch freed up We'd had the JD parked up in the shed ready to split it, and had been using our 150HP Inter for our tractor work for the last few months. When the neighbour came over and borrowed the Inter to cut hay last week, we pulled the JD out of the shed and were (carefully) knocking it in and out of gear whilst using it. After using the machine for a good couple of hours pulling a heavy drag to re-grade our tracks, we got the clutch freed up. High gear, full throttle, hard on the brakes and clutch pedal down. Clutch works perfectly now. Whilst all the fluids are clean in the machine, the tractor had sat outside for a good couple of years before we bought it, so a good time now to drop all the fluids and change all the filters. Thanks for your advice guys. :notworthy Cheers, Karl
Wow you've been working on this one a long time. But at least you got it done at minimal coast. Glad to here all is well.