Posted by blais3pascal on September 27, 2017 at 17:54:00 from (75.185.158.42):
Hi all, I have a Ford 1220 compact tractor with front loader and 4WD. It has a little over 500 hours. This is my first tractor and I have gained experience with it over the past couple years slowly clearing a couple acre lot, grading it and removing small stumps. Well you experts probably know that it hasn't gotten the best care since it is a small tractor and probably shouldn't be used to remove stumps, especially dead on with the bucket jamming/forcing the front wheels into the ground. Well with all this dry weather, the ground like a rock, I removed two stumps, then went for the third and bang, it felt and sounded like the front frame of the tractor was slammed with a sledge hammer.
To my surprise I was able to back the tractor up, but quickly noticed that the front wheels were locking up, at least one side. I can't determine if they both lock at the same time. I think only one will drag, then release, then maybe lock again on the next rotation. I slowly got it back to the garage. It does it in both 2WD and 4WD. However when I jacked the whole tractor off the ground, all seems fine. The front wheels disengage in 2WD and engage in 4WD and spin counter to each other. When off and I manually spin the wheels, they feel normal with no crunching, grinding, or jamming. Also with the tractor on and in drive, no jamming, it appears normal. When I put the tractor back on the ground, in forward, reverse, 2WD or 4WD the momentary jamming starts again. Also a small leak has started on the right side of the tractor and I have attached a picture. The amount of fluid in the picture is from the last 24 hours roughly.
I am a novice, have done basic truck maintenance such as ball joints, idler arms, alternators, all easy stuff. I sure would like to try and fix this myself, but am guessing it will be far too complicated for me. I have access to quite a few tools though.
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