How to stick a 4366

[MacAR]

2 hours ago, 1586 Jeff said:

 

On top of a septic lift pump……

Man that stinks... literally!

[acem]

Pulled the brushog out (backwards) with the 826.

Then my friend showed up with his JD 8960 and  pulled the 1486 and 4366 out. Had enough cable and 1/2 G70 chain to get out on firm ground.

[Lazy WP]

Glad everything is out! 

[supermechanic]

I heard of a trick involving burnt lime to suck up mud

 Goes something like "open a sack of lime on top of the tire, and spin it into the hole you made".

 Lime expands 3 or 4 times its volume, taking that much water (and mud) with it.

 Never saw it done.

 

[ray54]

No sense in trying to pull something out if your cable/strap is not long enough to keep the rescue rig out of the same mud hole. I know it can be tempting to just take a close tractor and the first chain you grab.

I only farmed one field that would drop you as deep as you wished if you did not stop digging. The guy that farmed it before me had 3 IH TD 9 crawlers line up all stuck because nobody went and got enough cable to keep the towing tractor on dry ground. I got to know the boggy part and just stayed out. It was the poorest part of the field anyway. One planting season I jigged and jogged around the wettest and turned my help lose to till it. The help thought they could till more, all good until they tried to turn the crawler. It dropped instantly, but he learned somewhere it is better to stop. I had a 100 foot of 1 inch cable for just such occasions.  I had another equal sized crawler close. It took longer to go home for the cable than towing it out.

The land owner opted to plant a vineyard and that being the most level part of the field it was included. No chance to jig and jog in a vineyard. I bogged a baby Kubota, B 8200 I think it is spaying, as well as Yamaha 4 wheeler trying to spray berms before weeds where to big.  A 1 inch cable was way over kill. But being 100 foot single piece was the tool of choice. Again no fuss, with having something long enough. And not driving the largest tractor in first.

I will not tell you I did not get stuck because I am so smart. Just that most of the soil here is a clay that is super sticky, but doesn't drop you in when the crust is broken. My father inlaw insisted on helping one spring. The thought I should push closer to wet areas I stayed out of. He had been on my favorite D6 , one day he had something else to do.  So I drove it and it was acting like a dog. I was going to change fuel filters. As I got off, and looked at how packed with mud the track frames were, I started cleaning. Three hours latter and lots of sweat, it pulled like it should. I have yet to make money playing in the mud.

[Tad Wicks]

On 5/22/2026 at 7:45 PM, ChrisNY said:

I wish they had diff lock on them. 

I did put a diff lock in a 75 4366 front axle, I used the bull pinions, cross shaft assembly and hydraulic valve from a 4386 and I think the 1086 was the same. The frame has to be modified a bit on the right side to get the cover in but it is doable but it is tight.

[acem]

2 hours ago, Tad Wicks said:

I did put a diff lock in a 75 4366 front axle, I used the bull pinions, cross shaft assembly and hydraulic valve from a 4386 and I think the 1086 was the same. The frame has to be modified a bit on the right side to get the cover in but it is doable but it is tight.

How did you feed the hydraulics operating the differential lock?

[Tad Wicks]

22 hours ago, acem said:

How did you feed the hydraulics operating the differential lock?

It has been well over 40 years ago but I think that I took oil from the power steering. It is right there close and I mounted the valve on the left front of the cab but then again I might be wrong. I do remember having to cut the bottom off the cover so it could slid up and off, it was very close. The 4386 had a better pressure lube system especially in the drop box, the 4366 did have a bit of a problem there. When i was working for the local IH dealership one came in totally munched, I mean munched, the only thing left usable were the 3 shafts, spacers and case. I searched for the failure cause and I found it, there is a tee in the top of the box where lube oil is pumped from a pump  on the transmission and then drained to the front end or back to the transmission ( I don't remember which ). and that tee is supposed to have a orifice into the box for lube oil, well, there was no hole drilled. IH wouldn't stand behind it, because it was out of warranty. Should anybody need info on the 4366 I do have the factory manuals, if I can find them. Tad

[Farmer B]

On 5/26/2026 at 9:14 AM, supermechanic said:

I heard of a trick involving burnt lime to suck up mud

 Goes something like "open a sack of lime on top of the tire, and spin it into the hole you made".

 Lime expands 3 or 4 times its volume, taking that much water (and mud) with it.

 Never saw it done.

 

We use this all the time to get concrete trucks, or stone trucks out of the mud, works well.

It does eat up alluminum rims so we are told.