Thanks for the video. I figure prices have doubled by now. Good Luck, Rick

Thanks a million for All Your videos! It’s Awesome to find someone with Your knowledge and experience that is willing to share it with Us. I totally trust You and when You say that’s what We have do to fix power reversing trans I know that’s what we need to do You Sir have removed All of My fear of doing this work on My Ford 4500 and You saved Me thousands by sharing You Da Man!!! Thanks again Brother

Very good video. Thank you. After bolting the rebuild engine back on to my 4500 TLB it started and moved as it should. A month later I volunteered to bury a dead cow for a neighbor and it drove fine for about 6 minutes. I got to the gate to turn into the pasture where the old girl needed burying and the 4500 would not move forward or reverse. In deciding to not get into the rear part of the tractor, I had used the mantra of “if it aint broke don’t fix it “ and I put the 4500 back together without tearing into the clutch pack, torque converter and pump. It had been working OK prior to hearing a knock in the motor which had led to the rebuild on the engine. So in this case I guessed wrong. I wish I had seen your video before I had gotten to the point of bolting the engine back on the front end. Had I looked ahead with more foresight I would have unbolted the center section where it bolts to the rearend and taken it into the shop and rebuilt it all while I had the chance. At that point I wouldn’t have had to remove the backhoe since the entire front end was out of the way. Much as I hate to say this I think I am looking at taking the hoe off, splitting the tractor again and going thru the entire back half of the machine. I work under a shade tree down at the farm but this seems to be one of those occasions where putting the whole rearend on the trailer and dragging it back to the shop is in order. If I do this I will literally have rebuilt the entire tractor from that terrible power steering setup, front axle, main hydraulic pump, engine, hoses, steering box, rusted out fuel tank and both valve bodies for the loader and backhoe. What have I forgotten? I can't understand how it would work just fine one minute and then quit the next. Hey it's an antique right?

Thank you, I am having all this replaced in my Ford 575D Tractor Loader. Hopefully it will be all put back together by the end of this month. Thanks again. Your video is greatly appreciated.

Finally I found a video resource to help me out...just picked up a 1967 3500 industrial loader with a B.A. box blade on it...its got the TC tranny it works good but I was very concerned about parts for it Thanks for the knowledge im gonna start hoarding up parts for it now.

Thanh you for taking your time to make this video available .

Very good information, thanks for that. You are obviously knowledgeable on the subject. Lord help me that I never need to do that job on my 4500.

This information really help me,i have a 550 ford that go's in forward but won't go in reverse

Good job. Thanks for your movie. My backhoe is not going back. So i knew problem now.

Going to be breaking my 5500 TLB in a couple months. Watched a video of someone doing it supporting the transmission side and setting up railway ties under the motor with a floor jack and using a come along to separate the front half.

Thank you sir for your time!!

I appreciate this video a great deal. Bought a 455c backhoe/loader & it goes forward or reverse with no problem... but only goes to about 2mph wide open. Happily digs loader bucket into wet clay at that speed but no power / speed change when gears are changed. (The only way I could confirm it really was changing gears was coasting down hill and each gear will 'hold back' the tractor correctly. Just no power above that 2mph speed in any gear.. Don't even get me started about the brakes... so far as I know, there are none - just pretty pedals mashed to the floor and bent rods underneath. (I don't think the old fella adjusted anything on it - levers, shifters, controls, brakes... this machine has more slop than than a 90 year old hooker at a frat party.)

thanks for the video, very well explained, they are a great old tractor, I own a 3550 loader, are all parts for the transmission still available, I'm looking to rebuild mine at some stage,

Ford 555 drives forward and reverse just that it's the opposite lever position And when drive on the road sometimes the tractor will almost stall and if you put it in neutral will start drive in the opposite normal direction of travel

M & M, thank you for the helpful video. A friend of mine picked up an old 420, when cold it will move F/R but after a few minutes will no longer move. He asked me to dig into it to find the problem, I figured I should take some pressure readings first. I have been under the machine and found the metal line inside the TC cavity, as well as a larger pipe plug on the bottom of the valve body. Where do I need to measure hydraulic pressure and what should they be?

Thanks. Good to know I Try help it shifting only when backhoe is in full stop

Thank you fot this video, a real eye-opener. I live in the Netherlands and bought a Ford 550 backhoe with Power Reversing transmission. bought it for demolition works and ground works. I tested it before I bought it but did not notice the bad clutch. because I did not drive it. It will go forward and backward, Forward is difficult and only in lower gears. dit work in 4th wen cold. but did not drive anymore when it got warm. could only use 2nd gear and with luck 3rd. with slipping clutch. I want to replace the clutch and all the o-rings. because they could leak to. ( seen that in your other video) What would you recommend? what parts do i have to replace? what gaskets, o-rings, oil seals do I have to replace and order?

I’m wanting to get a machine it seems like the same set up 555b it has the same set up it won’t go forward but it will go reverse

I know this was a while ago, But you mention the little snap ring. I put the clutch body back on the shaft and before putting in the clutches I put the snap ring back on. But the only place it seems to go is where there is about an 1/8 of an inch wide groove in the shaft. Is that where the snap ring goes or did I place it in the wrong spot. It allows the clutch body to move forward and back a little bit. Thats the only spot that I see that it can go. And I can't remember when I removed it how loose it was.

J. Garner. Thanks for the video, very informative. Wish you were located in Dallas, TX. I have a Ford 575D tractor/loader with the same problem. Would what u discussed in this video be the same for my 575D. I have already replaced the solenoids , shuttle shifter, fwd/reverse module with no results. Any recommendations would be appreciated. Thank you.

is this the borg warner shuttle reverser that also goes into the jcb loadall I managed to lose the oil out of it and it has not worked since

Thinking back to my problems with my shifter clutches, and how I found the internal pump filter was completely plugged with sludge and weird jelly. I’m thinking the plugged filter was the root of my problem. Very devious of Ford to hide the most important filter on the tractor where you can’t get at it without splitting the machine. Now that I’m all done completely rebuilding the whole rear end my hind sight is beginning to kick in. Seems like after draining all the oil out of the transmission / clutch housing you could find a way to get at the internal filter thru the connecting openings in the bottom of the transmission case. I’m wondering if anyone has tried draining all the oil out of the transmission and using one of those spy cameras and going thru the opening in the bottom why you couldn’t look to see if A) the internal filter was plugged and B) if so what would it take to clean enough goo off the filter to make it work again. Cleaning the internal filter won't fix blown seals, aged o-rings, burnt up clutch plates or a bad pump. But it would give you a fighting chance to correctly diagnose the issues without splitting the tractor. Anything would beat the heck out of splitting the tractor. For those who haven’t been inside the transmission case yet, there are 3 chambers which make up the middle casting. The forward most one contains the flywheel, torque converter, shifter linkage, the transmission lockout, the transmission oil pump and oil distributor. You can get into it to look by removing the steering column and or the observation plate under the tractor. The rear most chamber contains the actual steel gears of the transmission. You get to it by removing the shifter cover. The mysterious middle chamber contains the clutch pack assembly, the reversing gear and the odious internal filter. There are 3 openings into the middle chamber. There is one at the very bottom of the gear case under the counter shaft thru into the middle chamber. Another is the oil drain plug. The third is the hole thru which the oil cooler gets overflow from the back of the oil distributor. They faked us out by installing an external spin on filter for the oil cooler on the outside to make us think we were fixing something by changing the oil cooler filter. It doesn’t. I’m waiting for somebody smarter than me to come up with a clever way to get something in there to look at the filter and maybe clean it. Have we got any spelunkers out there?

thanks for a great video I have a 545 backhoe I would like to change the tranmission oil Is there anything to service while changing the transmission oil? What type oil to use? Does the transmission and rear end share the same oil? about how much oil will I need? thanks

Can i get to that test port copper line from the top under the steering column mine broke off?

i was given the wrong oil from jcb they give me jcb torque converter oil when it should of been sa 30 wpould that have any thing to do with it

I have a 1990 Ford 455C one day I cranked it and it wouldn't go in forward or reverse no matter what I did. I changed the Hydraulic filter on the transmission and it worked just fine after that. Used it all day long. Then parked it and now its doing the same thing. So I changed the filter again but its still wont go into forward or reverse. And yes it does have the electric shift on the column. Any ideas?

Hi great video. I have the exact same transmission. It will not engage forward. I suspected worn clutch plates. Before removing trans I removed forward / reverse valve block and checked for stuck spools or dirt- was all free and clean. I removed the trans and found all clutch plates in very good condition with no signes of heat etc, gauze in the bottom of the some clean, and all metal piston ring type shaft seal intact. Any suggestions please?

I have a 545 Ford. It was working fine then all of the sudden lost both forward and reverse. In your dealings have you seen both forward and reverse clutches go bad at the same time?

Hi, Thanks for the video, Great Info!! I have a 2004 Caterpillar 303cr mini ex, just replaced the hydraulic pump, now it will not work. I was told by a mechanic that the pump needs to be adjusted. I have never heard of that before. Is this true?

Trying to help my Dad find a solution to fix his 1992 Ford 555C. He says the power reversing transmission is always stuck in forward travel, no matter where he moves the shuttle shifter. The electric buttons on the loader lever and main 4 speed transmission do not stop the pressure to move forward. Any ideas are appreciated.

Question. Will this also cause the rear tires to lock up. I have a 555c and I can't move the tractor at all. Rear tires are locked down. What ever has happened its got everything locked down. I can't turn the engine over, and I can't roll /pull/or push it anywhere.

Nice video. How much didnyou charge for this job?

is this the same setup i have on my new holland for 2120 4x4 hss? i was pulling logs and would stop and grab again under load. i started it up yesterday and will not move nohow, thanks for the video

I have a 555 loader backhoe and I know there are models like A,B,C and D. Do you have any information about how I can tell the difference in these models..?

Good Show -- Have me a ford 555D 4 WD - cant find the serial number to know the year - wonder where it is - doesn't Wont to go forward or reverse when lights are turned on - Ever heard of that one ------ Wonder if a service manual is available for this model -

Hi I got a 655a 1986 had problems with reverse engaging then lost it altogether split tractor found broken spool valve ring so replaced all 3 and seals as needed got reverse but bad delay got to rev it to build up pressure then engages fine wondering if you had any ideas much appreciated

I have a ford 445 backhoe auto will drive forwards or backwards cold when it warms up won't pull its self

I was wondering if you guys could help me with an issue. Have an 80’s 545 backhoe that will stop moving warm but if you select the other direction it will move again for a period of time and then repeat: stop moving that direction but go the other way for a while. It almost seems like a fluid level issue but my hydraulic tank is full. Is this a possible hydraulic restriction somewhere or should I be expecting the pump to be failing?

The 655a 1985, what type of oil use in the transmission?

do you have a video on splitting the 4500 with backhoe i have a 1974 4500 its leaking real good and will go what ever way the shiftier is in when you start it hen to go the other way you have to shut it down and shift it then restart it fun fun

Hey i have a Problem with my 1164 ford county tractor and the problem is that when u put the gear into reverse it puts in gear but it wont go reverse same as the second gear which u can put but won’t go only goes 1st gear

i have a ford 420 backhoe i think the pump is going out, works fine for a bit then stops pumping, then i have to shut off the tractor for a min and restart to get it going again. anyways i was going to rebuild the trans/pump, do i have to take off the hoe to break the tractor in half ? i was thinking i could just raise up the front loader and break off the front half and pull it forward.

My mf50b T096 backhoe starts but won't go forward or reverse...drive shaft is not spinning when machine is on but can spin the tyres with hand...any help

Does that happen when switching from forward to reverse without stopping?

“Brake lockup I have a old 515B Payloader IH/Desser/Case that has had some hack job elec work for starters- like just about every sending unit or solenoid disconnected or bypassed so I’m going to start there....I got it from estate and the front brakes were disconnected and the transmission worked after servicing all the filters and fluids , purged all the lines and installed front lines after bleeding they worked for a few hours just light fed/rev shut down and 30min later started up and progressively started locking up ? but if anyone has experience on this topic please throw me bone Thanx Al

My 550 backhoe transmission will work Forward and reverse only for about 45 seconds. Then I have to wait for about an hour for it to cool down and then it will work again. Any tips?

How long will that last along with the torque converter?

My mid, or late eights,( can't find a s/n or year anywhere on the machine ) 555 goes forward without any issues, but reverse is the problem. It will not move, in other words, the engine RPM's do not change when it is shifted to reverse. My question is, is there a way I can tell by using a pressure-gauge, or some other way, to verify that the clutches are the problem, or if pressure is bleeding off before it get to the reverse clutch drum? thank you. frank mckinnon, hickory, n.c.

Where would the serial number be located..? I have found numbers at the point where the engine and trans mate up------2D27B----AE70D04..! Do these numbers mean anything to you..? I tried your phone number and didn't work,; do you sell or have a source for parts..!

is this the only way to fix the problem?

You didn't even show the cause of the problem? You only showed the effect of something else being wrong. What caused the clutches to burn up? What about the apply piston seals? Where was the actual fault??? You straight didn't even pull the apply pistons out of the clutch drum? Why not. Seals in that need replaced correct?