[AT] 3600 and green shimstock

[Stuart Harner]

As hard as it probably was to write those checks, I say it was money 
well spent.

You have a really nice looking tractor that you can trust. Those dollars 
wouldn't provide that value most other places they could go.

Best wishes for nothing but air for tires, fuel for tank and oil changes 
in your future!


On 9/7/23 12:32, Dean Vinson wrote:
>
> This has been the year for expensive work on my Ford 3600.   A fuel 
> line leak a few months ago had already resulted in a trip to the local 
> CaseIH/New Holland shop, and while it was there I had them replace the 
> underslung orchard exhaust with a conventional vertical muffler 
> (orchard exhaust made hay-ride type operations problematic, and seemed 
> pointless given the ROPS/canopy on the tractor).   Barely a month 
> after getting it back I was mowing one day and noticed the tach cable 
> had broken and the tach and hour meter were no longer working, and 
> then not long after that the PTO stage of the two-stage clutch stopped 
> working, couldn’t engage the PTO without first shutting off the engine.
>
> So back it went to the farm service shop. Turned out the pressure 
> plate fingers were worn out so the fix was a new clutch, but while 
> getting the tractor apart and back together and testing it, they 
> noticed leaks at the fuel injectors and the hydraulic pump so I had 
> them fix that stuff too.   Total bill this time came to $3511, on top 
> of the $2650 from a few months ago.   Lot of money for a little old 
> tractor, but it’s handy as can be and I’d hate to sell it and try my 
> luck with some other old beast.   Right pretty little thing, too, 
> especially all clean and fresh from the shop. Here’s a photo from 
> today, as they were unchaining it prior to winching it back down off 
> the truck.   (Yep, that front tire was low… I filled it back up right 
> after getting the tractor on the ground).
>
> Dean Vinson
>
> Saint Paris, Ohio
>
>
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