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65 straight JD 350 crawler trouble

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chrismis

10-22-2007 16:31:29




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I’m the owner of a JD 350 crawler dozer. I bought it 7 years ago for $6500 and it has done a great many things for me since. The biggest plus for me was having a super winch on the back to skid logs off my land. I have a house now from them and I couldn’t have done it without this machine. So, needless to say, I’m a tad attached.
This last winter, after having some work done on it in the summer, it got stuck out of gear. I’m from NH and it was cold so I thought something may have frozen up, maybe linkage or something. I tented it were it stood and heated for quite awhile with a good sized heater to no avail. I didn’t have a lot of time to deal with it so I let it sit till warmer weather. Well, my 3 and 5 year old boys were on it one spring day and they were giving it the usual “product testing” and they got it in gear again! I’m using it still from there fix.
Well, winter is coming again and I’m wondering what I should do. This dozer does our driveway for us but it’s got to be able to shift. Any ideas out there of what may have been the problem? Lots of water somewhere that it freezing? Linkage, or I guess fork issues? Is any of this doable by me? I know I said I had it worked on but that was a wield job that I didn’t feel confident on. I’ve done any other work myself.
All help appreciated.

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jdemaris

10-23-2007 06:02:37




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 Re: 65 straight JD 350 crawler trouble in reply to chrismis, 10-22-2007 16:31:29  
You need to be a little more specific. Is the transmission getting stuck in gear, or is the reverser getting stuck (assuming you have one)?

The older 350s use a cable to shift the reverser instead of linkage, and they have always had freeze-up problems.

The four-speed gear transmissions can freeze up from water, but also are prone to getting smashed shifter dogs since they are not syncrhonized. Smashed dogs can result of hard shifting into gear, and hard getting out of it especially 1st and 2nd gears.

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Roy Suomi

10-22-2007 17:54:33




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 Re: 65 straight JD 350 crawler trouble in reply to chrismis, 10-22-2007 16:31:29  
To eliminate frozen gears/gearboxes..I would drain all the oils , or at least the bottoms of the gearboxes to get the water out before cold weather arrives..This would include ; direction reverser if so equipped , transmission/ rear bevel gear housing , final drive housings and finally drain out the steering clutch housings [ in case there's water in them]..Any milky looking oil should be drained completely and flushed..Then add new Hy-Gard or equivalent..

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