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Hundred Series and possibly early “01” Series. Most “01” Series do not have sleeves. Your tractor is an “01” Series. 501, 601, 701, 801 and 901 were all built starting 1958.
Hundred Series were the 600, 700, 800 and 900 built from 1955 through 1957. Also, an easy way to tell in most cases, is if the block has a canister type oil filter. If it does, it has sleeves. If you have a block with a spin on oil filter (no spin on adapter) the block will not have sleeves.
Q:Parked tractor in shed after mowing, came back a few days later and tractor will not move? None of the gears. The PTO still drives mower. Any ideas?
A: Will the tractor roll free without the engine running?
Q: No. The tractor does not move. I had to move the coupler out of gear in order to move it. I did drain oil and removed the lower filter that looked like new. Moving the selector lever to R1 acts like it wants to move forward, but it won’t.
A: First, check and see if the cable from the selector lever to the valve assembly on the top of the trans be broken?
Solution: When I pulled the top cover off of the transmission, I discovered that the actuator that pushes the valve for the inching clutch had slid off of the valve. Thus was the same as clutch being pushed in at all times. The reason it moved over I believe was because the return spring was broken at one time and the last owner had put a return spring on the inching pedal on the outside of the tractor, so there was no tension straight back from the actuator. I fixed that by just putting a hose clamp up against that actuator. Leaving the return spring as was. Now the adjustment is off on the gears. Must not have gotten the cable from the selector
shift quite the same. I'll adjust that next.
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