Back in the sixties, I broke a final drive shaft on a JD MT. The guy up at the shop managed to knock the fuel cap off the back of a work bench, and just got a new fuel cap and put on it. On the way home, the tractor quit- several times- so I ran it back to the dealer. They let it sit outside and run for two days, with not one miss. Headed home agian, and it started quitting again. Turned out the mechanic had replaced the cap with one from a 40. The 40 had a vented tank; the MT had a vented cap. It was drawing a suction on the tank as the gas was used, and starving for fuel.
Another one that intrigued us was a 4030 that suddenly became hard to shift without grinding. The pressures were all good, but it was a beyotch to get into gear. Happened to be working on the battery cables when I found a wood chip under a stop on the side of the transmission case, which was keeping the clutch from completely disengaging. Not a big piece- about the size of a pencil and maybe 1 to 2" long. Took me almost two years to find it. It was stuck behind the arm and over the shaft into the tranny.....
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