Hi, and greetings from Sweden.

I have a IH-844 from 1975 that is built in Deutchland, it has a Neuss enginge (D268). Therefore i thought there is a lot of knowledge in a German forum about this tractor:)

The problem that i have is that the agriomatic lever is stuck. I have to add that the tractor has been standing outdoors unused for at least 10 years and rain had filled one cylinder with water and so on. I did a small re-build of the engine and got that running only to find out that the agriomatic lever is stuck, (the one on the right side of the steering wheel). I bought the tractor in this condition so i don‘t know the history of the agriomatic, the seller said that everything worked when it was put away.

At first i thought it had rusted stuck and i tried to moved it hard back and forward several times and it became free. The clutch free agriomatic forward and backwards worked fine with group shifter in reverse, it had a delay of maybe three secounds before it engaged, don‘t know if that is normal?

But then after a few days when i started the tractor the lever was stuck again and it would not come loose like before.
Has anyone an idea what could cause this? Some valve that is rusted?

I know about at least one more tractor that have the same problem here in Sweden, that tractor had also been standing unused several years outdoors.
Do i need the open the gearbox from above and se if something is not moving freely? A lot of job to do that...

Feel free to write in German if that is more comfortable, i can always use Google translate.

Thanks a lot.
Henrik

I probably have to open the top cover of the gearbox to take a look why the Agriomatic selector is not mowing. It is a big job to remove the cab to get to the gearbox, and then i have heard that the top cover of the gearbox is really hevavy, like 70kg :)

The strange thing is that it did work, and then after a couple of days it was stucked again...

thanks.