Mcrafty1
Senior Member
I was pushing debris from a land clearing job recently and the distance I was carrying the load was considerable, probably two acres...The day was hot but the machine wasn't showing signs of heating in either engine or torque converter. do to the distance I had to push I attempted to hurry the machine a bit by doing some of the distance in 2nd gear. I was doing this because I didn't see the need to run full RPM and thought that by pushing in second gear at around half throttle or a little more I would save some fuel and not work the old machine as hard. What happened was as the day warmed up and I had made many runs at one point the machine slowed and then stopped altogether but the RPM's didn't change. It appeared as though the torque converter gave up. I idled down and checked all the fluid levels and got back on the machine put it in 1st gear and it worked fine. After that experience I stopped pushing long distance in 2nd gear and the tractor work fine for the remainder of the job. I did a lot of hard pushing with it after the problem occurred but mostly in 1st gear it never slipped again, worked as it should. The tractor is the one in my sig and the serial# is 76A5579 All oil and filters are new and cat specs. What would cause this and what can I expect to see develop because of it? Thanks in advance for any help with this.