[AT] New Holland TS110 saga continues.

Fri Jul 17 15:53:50 PDT 2015

Cecil, every time I read your stories, and I do enjoy the detail, it 
makes the problems I'm having that day seem so small. You are one hard 
working guy.

Mike M

On 7/17/2015 5:20 PM, Cecil R Bearden wrote:
> 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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