no wonder they progressed over to the power shift set up, constantly depressing the clutch and changing from 1st to reverse or vice versa certainly builds up the muscle in the left leg even if the clutch mechanism is all nice and free!
That was the fun of the machine, imagine 9 hours loading lorries with muck away non stop but that was the nature of the beast, thankfully one was not working like that a lot, the torque converter version was good, however it lacked power and if it got to warm it would pack up... and as for the brakes binding, well that happened a lot when tracking from one job to another, that is if you was lucky to have good brakes in the first place, ... the other fun time tracking was if the steering had a bit of play in it, you was turning the steering wheel to the left and the right franticly just to keep in straight line oh they was fun days on the MK2's
Martyn