[AT] New Holland TS110 saga continues.

Fri Jul 17 19:55:03 PDT 2015

I only wish I had taken some pictures of the head as it was received.  I 
am bad about not using the camera on my flip phone it is not great but 
it would have been better than nothing.

Cecil

On 7/17/2015 5:53 PM, Mike wrote:
> 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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