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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dean Vinson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Saint Paris, Ohio<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=1600 height=1200 style='width:16.6666in;height:12.5in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D9E18F.C6B90F10"><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>