[AT] more HP guaranteed!/now front end on the ground.

charlie hill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Mon Mar 20 11:03:52 PDT 2017


Greg that's exactly correct.  There is a hose that pumps fluid to a ram 
inside
the rear end housing.  The ram raises the lift arms.  If that hose breaks it
will pump the fluid into the rear end housing.  With that said,  I've never
had one break.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Greg Hass
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2017 7:58 PM
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Subject: Re: [AT] more HP guaranteed!/now front end on the ground.

No quite the same topic, but close. Back when they were new, my uncle
bought a brand new AC D-17 along with a 3 bottom mounted plow and a
loader. I'm assuming he used the traction control although I was quite
young at the time. He and my dad were quite close so we saw a lot of
him. I remember him complaining that when plowing, every couple of
rounds he would have to drain oil from the rear housing and put it back
in the transmission. After a couple of days he decided to take it to the
dealer. The next day he asked me and my dad to come see what the dealer
was doing. They had the tractor blocked up and were tearing the whole
transmission apart. I remember the mechanics saying a couple of bolts
didn't want to come out so they twisted them off. After making a mess of
the tractor, they had no idea what was wrong. Then my uncle remembered
that a mechanic who had worked for the previous dealer 10 years earlier
now worked for the IH dealer. He went and talked to him and he said he
had never worked on a D series tractor but if it was anything like the
WD-45 there was a hose in the rear housing that lifted the plow and it
would sometimes split and allow oil from the front to spray into the
rear every time the plow lifted.  It turned out that was the problem and
was a one hour fix. It took them a week to get the tractor together
again and my uncle took it home. Well, they must have put something
together wrong because in half a day, it took out almost every bearing
in the transmission. This happened in May and my uncle didn't get the
tractor back until October. He never trusted the tractor after that,
kept saying he heard funny noises in the transmission, but he had it for
about 10 years more before getting rid of it. He never did go back to
that dealer although a couple years after selling the first tractor he
did, in a private deal, buy another D-17; I'm pretty sure it was a
series IV. That tractor I spent many hours driving and it was a
powerful, peppy tractor.
               Greg Hass
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