Randy: My dad and I farmed with 16 Farmalls, either bought new or less than 2,000 hours. We had at least one tractor from each series, starting with a W4 and ending with a 1066. Of the whole 16 we only ever classified the 504 gasser as a poor tractor, engine had to be rebuilt at 1,500 hours. The rest were all good to excellent. 56 series was the finest IH ever built. Most of the items your complaining about were common to all 06, 26, 56, 66 and 86 series tractors. My take on this, the maintenence done by you or a previous owner, leaves something to be desired. No tractor runs forever with poor maintenence.
There is a rebuild kit for that shift linkage, will make it work like new. Loaders are hard on shift linkages, loader tractors probably shift 100 times to every shift of a non loader tractor. If the tractor has never had a loader, then someone has been running a lot of hours with clutch, transmission brake and TA out of adjustment, poor maintenence. Someone has been making those gaskets since the 1256 was built. Besides the tractor is minamum 37 years old, those items went on my 1066 in 1983 at 10,000 hours. How many worn out old tractors have you run in the past 10 years, without rebuilding any of them.
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