A neighbor used to have an older 4WD John Deere, probably one of the earlier models (articulated, IIRC), and when you'd go into road gear the power steering was 50/50 on whether or not it would work. Or maybe it was the steering wouldn't work at all due to some hydraulic issue.
It's also the same one, I think, where you could push the clutch down and if it got "in a mood" it'd shove your foot off the clutch with so much back pressure. You could walk out fence posts with it... Can't remember the model number for the life of me, though.
Which Ford Select-O-Speed models are we referring to, exactly? I know somebody with two of these (see image below), and they seem to run and drive great:
This is a personal gripe, as I'm sure the tractor is stellar, but... I drove an 8100 John Deere powershift on and off for awhile years back and when it'd change gears it sounded like either the engine wanted to leap out of the tractor and rev up or the gears wanted to eat themselves in the transmission. Wasn't a fun of the way it would rock back and forth in road gear, either... Nor the overly tiny steering wheel.
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