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Bob Rooks wrote: Everyone knows you meant high range
Not only that, starting out in 4th would be a neat trick with only 3 forward gears
My first experience with this was a 1937 Chevy truck I had just bought and towed to the house. After lubing the valves and beating them with a brass drift to get them unstuck
and got it running I found nothing else had electrical power. A friend pulled the amp gauge and on the back was a piece of mica board with a wire wrapped around it about ten wraps, and broken. My friend says,” time for a trip to Goodwill” and we go get a waffle iron.
He pulls out one of the heating coils and wraps the same amount of winding onto the back of the gauge and viola, we have juice
. That was the only “fuse” that truck came with from the factory.I think what he means is after shorting out the new gauge with a wrench, which caused power going in but nothing going out, he replaced it with his old gauge and is now back in business.
If you are starting off in 4th gear hi range you are smoking (destroying) your clutch. Personally I would not even think of starting out in 4th gear low range.
Until someone with intimate knowledge of that era tractor chimes in all I can suggest is to start checking currant from the battery to the fuse box, check all your fuses, perhaps a wire melted or a loose connection in the fuse box, etc.
Long, long ago I was removing the battery in my 64 T-Bird. The first mistake was not taking off the silver ring my folks had given me after a trip to Mexico. Second mistake was using channel-lock pliers instead of going and getting the right wrench. Mistake #3, disconnecting the positive cable first.
Damn that hurt when the pliers welded themselves to the ring with my finger in the middle of it!
Hope that makes you feel a little better
This may be a stretch but I would try to find dealers in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Asian countries. These areas never had to deal with EPA regulations so would have a better chance of having non EPA tractor parts.
