Transmission adjustment

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JD Strong

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Ever since Dad and I replaced the 3 bands on our 1916 T, it is a bear to crank. When lifting the rear wheels off the ground it made it much eaiser to pull thru to crank. After adjusting as per figure 508 in the ford book the rear tires only seem to spin harder. When I applied the brakes, it stalled the motor out.
Not knowing or having anyone around our area in Central AL. that knows the workings of the T, and afraid to make things worse, I'll wait for some post for some help.
Thanks,
Jamie
 
Lot of drag going on somewhere. Are you sure it is in true neutral? So if the bands are
not too tight, its gotta be the hand brake to the clutch paul out of adjustment.
Thats my thought; its not fully in neutral. If you are not familiar with these things, I
would start all over and loosen all bands put cover back on, start up. Try it (yes-no)?
If no, I would take the cover off and manually push the pedal to neutral and see whats
going on down there, you should see clutch forks moving pretty good. If so, put hand
brake on (keeping the pedal in neutral by hand) and adjust the bolt on the pawl to keep
it there tighten lock nut, and try it again. If good- then re adjust the bands not too tight.
If none of this helps, myself I would have a hard look at the clutch finger adjustments.

The only thing I'm going on is, I am picturing this jacked up, your hand brake is in neutal,
and you step on the brake pedal and the engine "stalls"? Well that says it is not in
neutral..... all I can see 1200 miles away from ya.
sam
 
Is the bolt installed that rides on the brake cross shaft cam? If that bolt is missing you won't get neutral because the clutch won't be released.
 
So if you jack the wheels off the ground and start it, what happens when you press the clutch completely down? If it stalls then the adjustment for neutral wrong. Should be simple to correct.
 
Are you pressing the brake pedal without using the clutch?
With the parking brake lever pulled back and sticking straight up the cam on the cross shaft should push the end of the clutch lever up. There should be a 3/8 fine thread bolt with a lock nut at that end. (installed so the head of the bolt rides on the cross shaft cam with the lock nut on the same side as the head of the bolt). With the transmission inspection plate off and the lever pulled back, The 3 clutch fingers should be loose when you jiggle them.
If the fingers are not loose push the low pedal down some and see if the fingers are loose then. Could be the bolt needs to be let out some or the clutch fingers need adjusting.
 
When the weather warms a bit, we'll give some of the post a try.
The bolt is in place that rides on the cross cam, and I attempted to adjust it per the pic in the ford manual we have, and have seen posted, but it seemed to make matters worse, adjusted as the pic indicated. Prior to changing the 3 bands, we had little to no brakes, and reversed jumped a lot and didn't work to well. Since the new bands brakes are good, reverse is good, and high
/ low gears seem to work great, just a bear to start with the wheels on the ground.
Weather should warm enough to pittle on some of the ideas, starting with loosening the bands up a bit.
Thanks for the post, And I'll keep you guys up to date as to our progress.
Thanks,
Jamie
 
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