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Forklift won't move, inching valve?

Hello guys

I'm just a simple mechanic from Belgium who has a small home shop if you can call it that way. I have a Nissan EH01A15U small forklift, I believe early 90s.

It started with having no reverse. Some fidling with the shifter linkage seemed to do the job. The next day I had reverse nor forward. A lot shifting (and the engine warming up?) later it worked again but I decided to change the transfluid and clean the filter. After this it still worked, but today again no movement. In the short period I had the Nissan I always had to give some revs until it broke free as to speak.

After some searching it seems like the culprit could be the inching/declutch valve, I have 2 brake pedals. The left pedal moves a pivoting arm on top of the trans, about 90 degrees. When disconected I feel no resistance at all in this arm.

Any advice? I'll probably will need to remove the top of the trans?
  • Posted 29 Jul 2018 06:33
  • By flash
  • joined 29 Jul'18 - 1 message
  • Belgium
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HI
TRY REMOVING THE CONTROL VALVE AND CHECKING THE SPRINGS HAVE YOU PUT A TEST GAUGE ON THE VALVE
  • Posted 18 Dec 2019 23:02
  • By Mark_Jones
  • joined 18 Dec'19 - 2 messages
  • Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
MARK

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