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  • #1

    catastrophic failure

    did over one hundred miles of trail near the canadian border without incident. the next week went chasing caribou near the yukon river and six miles down the trail i put my eighties argo in reverse and it made a ticking sound and then would not go into any gear. had to get towed out including across a few creeks. got very wet. why cant those old argos be made reliable. very sad. would have never expected that component to fail.
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    well you are talking about a machine that is 20 to 30 years old and who knows how its been maintained since new... so having a tranny fail is definitely in the card for any vehicle that old... I would not blame the machine
    2000 Land Tamer with Tracks.

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    • #3
      yup, the trani's are one of the weak spots on the old units, thay know they had a problem and that is why there was a multitude of parts changeups in the tranis from back then, when you go to rebuild that thingy you'll find out there was 4 or 5 internal gear change-ups and sometimes can be hard to get the right ones the first time ,unless you have the parts in-hand when you go to order them, and you'll find you'll probably have to buy alot more parts than just the ones you need due to the change-ups, or just buy a WHOLE new rebuilt unit
      He who has not cruised the back country in a 6x6 , has not lived life to it's fullest
      A Mans level of mechanical education directly corresponds to the level pain suffered while getting it

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      • #4
        Have it disassembled, it might be just shift linkage and not gear sets, since it didn't make terrible grinding noises.
        To Invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. (Thomas Edison)

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        • #5
          no terrible grinding. i can feel the gear shifter trying to engage the gears and finding them. but then it still does not go. i faintly remember it not going into gear after hitting reverse one other time before that and maybe a loud pop before that but i was on a rough trail so it is hard to be sure

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          • #6
            When you engage your tranny into reverse,take a look at the shifter shaft and make sure the lever doesn't have a lot of sloppyness to it. You will know when it's gears. Last fall while pulling trees those tiller bars made sure you knew that you ripped teeth off of a lot of gears in the diff. yours sounds like a mobility issue. Hope this helps.

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