Ben,
Welcome to the WFM forums and to owning a classic Deere tractor.
Even if you don't or can't upgrade to the REV4 linkage, doing the maintenance to ensure all the wear is removed from your linkage and renewing even the stock dampener will vastly improve your jerkiness issues, as RLC mentions above.
Because wear in the hydro linkages can also cause variation in ground speed with grade (slowing going uphill...etc.) you should ensure all wear is addressed with new or repaired parts. There are many good threads in the archives on addressing linkage wear and replacing the dampener to address this jerky behavior. Here are a few examples -- some have links to other threads in them:
http://www.wfmachines.com/discus/messages/335/211932.html
http://www.wfmachines.com/discus/messages/335/242240.html
http://www.wfmachines.com/discus/messages/335/105515.html
http://www.wfmachines.com/discus/messages/335/250766.html
...that last one has some good photos of typical linkage wear points.
I will email you some other info as well...
Chuck
Welcome to the WFM forums and to owning a classic Deere tractor.
Even if you don't or can't upgrade to the REV4 linkage, doing the maintenance to ensure all the wear is removed from your linkage and renewing even the stock dampener will vastly improve your jerkiness issues, as RLC mentions above.
Because wear in the hydro linkages can also cause variation in ground speed with grade (slowing going uphill...etc.) you should ensure all wear is addressed with new or repaired parts. There are many good threads in the archives on addressing linkage wear and replacing the dampener to address this jerky behavior. Here are a few examples -- some have links to other threads in them:
http://www.wfmachines.com/discus/messages/335/211932.html
http://www.wfmachines.com/discus/messages/335/242240.html
http://www.wfmachines.com/discus/messages/335/105515.html
http://www.wfmachines.com/discus/messages/335/250766.html
...that last one has some good photos of typical linkage wear points.
I will email you some other info as well...
Chuck