[AT] New Holland TS110 saga continues.

[Cecil R Bearden]

Robert:
I had already ordered it before I read your comment so no big deal.
The next morning after I called and ordered it, the same head was $500 
on the web site instead of $200.  I got an email from one of their staff 
saying they located one for $500.  I called and verified that they had 
shipped my head and total cost was $282 including shipping.  When it 
came, I tried to find someone here local that could help me replace the 
guides.  I hit a dead end everywhere I called.  A engine parts supplier 
I bought parts from 25 years ago still had one employee who remembered 
me and would let me buy parts from them.  There are 2 others in OKC and 
they want a Pedigree and Credit report and shop pictures before they 
will let me buy from them.  This guy recommended an oil patch engine 
machine shop about 20 minutes away.  When I arrived they were loading a 
block in a pickup from a V-12 engine that was hanging over the 
tailgate!!  They had some heads on a pallet that were nearly 6ft long.  
I knew that these guys were qualified. Funny thing, they only had 5 guys 
n the shop.  I think my head was like a vacation for them as the valve 
specialist really took an interest in it, and he was impressed that I 
had all the machining information that he would need.  When I told him 
about the crank grinder I have in a shed, he was a new friend!!  The 
seat work looks very impressive.  I have to get this tractor going and I 
did not have time to send it back, and worry with finding another 
head... In the meantime, a pet calf that we raised on a bottle knocked 
over a heavy piece of iron near where we were working and broke the 
glass sediment bowl on the engine.  Last time we had to buy one it was 
$50.  It is one of those stupid designs that should never be put on 
agricultural equipment.  I found that the popular short cartridge filter 
will work with the aluminum sediment bowl from the earlier filters.  I 
got  a new filter and the bowl from the dealer for $39..  Hopefully it 
is not too long to fit above the injection pump.  It just never ends 
with this tractor...  I told some of the earlier stories about this on 
Tractorbynet and got a really snide response from a guy in New York who 
seems to be a technician.  He told me I should not expect so much, that 
this equipment breaks down and just suck it up...      Well, I now have 
nearly $50,000 worth of sucking in a tractor now worth about 
$25,000.........     Similar to the drug forfeiture f150 worth about 
$5000 that I have nearly $10,000 in..  Thanks to some nice but 
unqualified service technicians........       That truck is the reason I 
tried so hard to find someone to show me how to replace the seats.

Cecil in oKla



On 7/17/2015 3:38 PM, Robert wrote:
> Cecil
>
> Sorry to hear about your issues with the head from Wengers.  I've bought stuff from them and always found it was as represented and good parts!  I feel a little guilty as I was one of the people that said you wouldn't be disappointed
>
> Have you contacted them to discuss the condition??  Just wondering what they had to say?
>
>
> Bob
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jul 17, 2015, at 4:08 PM, Cecil R Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:
>>
>> Received the head from Wenger's for the TS110 late Friday.  Waited until
>> Sat morning to look at it.   Good thing.  It was noted that it Mag
>> tested OK, but it was a magna-fluxed boat anchor.  It appeared it had
>> water in it  for a long long time and they just bead blasted it.  The
>> combustion chamber was pitted and the valve seats were beyond repair.  I
>> looked at my old head again and found that the guide area was cracked on
>> the cylinder that broke the valve.  Also found that the head had been
>> worked on before, it had some different valves and had some chunks out
>> of the head near the valves on another cylinder.  This is the tractor
>> that i bought showing 1200 hours and now has 2000 hours.
>>
>> I found a good machine shop that does oil patch diesel engines and
>> yesterday morning dropped the head off with all the seat information.
>> I have a valve seat installing machine but have never used it, I did not
>> feel like learning on this head.   I picked the head up after lunch
>> today ( yeah fast service was my thoughts) and for only another $410  it
>> was ready for the all new valves springs rotators and keepers.
>> Hopefully If I can last through the heat ( 110 heat index here today )
>> I will have it running by Monday.
>>
>> If you ever order a part such as a head or block from a company, have
>> them send some high def pictures before you commit to buying............
>>
>> Cecil in OKla
>>
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