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Read articles →This is a hands-on DIY repair video from an owner troubleshooting sticky hydrostatic pedals and hard-shifting gears on a 2023 Massey Ferguson 1526 with 160 hours. He crawls underneath the tractor to trace the pedal linkage, locates a return spring and zerk fittings, greases them, then adjusts spring tension with a 12mm nut to fix the pedal creep. Useful for owners diagnosing the same sticking-pedal issue.
Posted by the 2nd Shift channel, an owner-operator working through his own tractor's mechanical problem in real time.
The pedal linkage has a return spring that may lack tension, so the pedal stays down slightly instead of fully returning to neutral, causing the machine to keep creeping.
Follow the linkage under the tractor to the return spring, then retract the adjuster nut toward the front of the tractor to add spring tension, pulling pedals back to neutral.
The adjuster uses a 12 millimeter nut on both ends of the spring to increase or decrease tension.
The owner greased two zerk fittings on the linkage, which helped a little with sticking but did not fully resolve the issue by itself.
