The wife inherited her dad's Golden Jubilee. He was 89 and slipping mentally and let a lot of things go bad and made some incorrect repairs. He was a wiz at this stuff in his younger years but was getting senile. We did a lot to get it running, new wiring harness, alternator, coil etc. Even once we got it running it was always difficult to change gears. Sometimes it worked, sometimes not. If the tractor was not running it was easy to go through the gears. When running it was very hard to shift, sometimes it would let you try to shift and you could feel it starting to grind and sometimes it just would not let the shifter budge at all. If you were running and pushed in the clutch the tractor would come to a stop like it should. I'm kind of a newbie and have split the tractor and the old parts look pretty good. Nothing jumps out as being the obvious cause of the problem. I've adjusted the clutch many times, increasing the distance until you feel pressure and going the opposite way where there is almost no slack. The other thing is that it was leaking transmission oil and got to where it was really bad and would loose most of the oil in a couple of weeks. I am about to start putting it back together with new clutch kit including pilot and throw out bearings and a new input shaft seal. Any suggestions or ideas? If it would help I can post some pictures of the old parts. Thanks in advance.
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