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Don't have experiences with a lot of 'em but with one in particular I sure do! As Gerald J says, the "things grinding" in 6 and 8 are THE SAME PIECES that are at work when you shift from 1-3 or from 2-5 or from 4-7. The synchro range transmission has a top & bottom shaft. Shifting of the "bottom shaft" gives you the speed RANGES (1/3/R1, 2/5/R2, 4/7 and 6/8) as well as "neutral" setting needed when you have to tow it. You're shifting this bottom shaft when the shifter lever is moved forward & back while to the left side of the shifter assembly. The top shaft gives you the high speed, the low speed and the reverse in each of the ranges selected by the bottom shaft once you slide the shifter lever to the right. The synchro range is a constant mesh type transmission. Generally grinding from gear to gear while shifting within a range is a warning of "future events". I was running one with a 15' field cultivator behind & shifted from 3 to 5 having just "adjusted" some ground hog's front lawns in bean stubble, let out the clutch and throttled back up and it locked up so solidly and quickly the fan squealed in the belts and my knees hit the dash! No way possible to have again stepped on the clutch that fast. Had to CARRY it to the shop. Split it open, put in new synchronizers, couple bearings, clutch, adjusted bearings, made cam plate adjustments and replaced a number of other associated parts. Pressed the wallet a good bit thinner & it now works great. My opinion.... not a time or place to cheap out & just do part of the job. Fix it all & it will serve well for a long time. Short cut & you'll be back. Take care considering the price of the tractor if you decide to buy it as is. Not talking just a "couple hundred" to fix all that's likely to be found in there and gear grinding might be called a "late stage" warning sign. Anybody agree?
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