I think my tractor is shot

[dun]

Bought a tractor that had a spray paint over haul. Lasted about 3 months.

New paint is hard to look past. It works on a lot of people and like Nesi I'm leary of anything old with new paint. No doubt most anyone who has been around equipment has been on the south end of a north bound horse.

When that engine has been freshly painted and you are told it's a fresh rebuild, and the SOB is just a straight up liar but unknown to you, you get screwed. Or at least I did.

 

[arkie1]

Bought a tractor that had a spray paint over haul. Lasted about 3 months.

New paint is hard to look past. It works on a lot of people and like Nesi I'm leary of anything old with new paint. No doubt most anyone who has been around equipment has been on the south end of a north bound horse.

When that engine has been freshly painted and you are told it's a fresh rebuild, and the SOB is just a straight up liar but unknown to you, you get screwed. Or at least I did.

It's a sad fact that there are people out there who do this regularly. I know of a few "shops" that buy old tractors and paint them up, put new decals on them and turn around and sell them as good "strong" tractors. Fact of the matter is they never even had them in the field or hooked the PTO up to anything. I personally like to see something in its work clothes if I'm looking at buying it.

 

[jltrent]

A neighbor bought a nice 5610 Ford/New Holland tractor with a cab at an auction. He feed with it all winter and was proud of it. He went to hook something to the PTO and it wouldn't turn. The cab had to come off, the tractor had to be split in the middle, one of the real axle had to come off and it was a very expense part. He got it fixed, but dang.

 

[Bigfoot]

There was a hole in the oil pan. He recommended what several others here did to. Rebuild the bottom of the engine. Claimed it wasn't that hard of a job. When it comes out of the shop, I'll run it a while, and see how it does.

 

[arkie1]

I'll keep my fingers crossed for ya BF.

 

[wbvs58]

Keep us posted on how it turns out down the track but I think it will work out.

My oil pressure light is not working on my Kubota, the sender wire is broken, I'm going out now to fix it after reading all this.

Ken

 

[OldCrow]

Bought a tractor that had a spray paint over haul. Lasted about 3 months.

New paint is hard to look past. It works on a lot of people and like Nesi I'm leary of anything old with new paint. No doubt most anyone who has been around equipment has been on the south end of a north bound horse.

When that engine has been freshly painted and you are told it's a fresh rebuild, and the SOB is just a straight up liar but unknown to you, you get screwed. Or at least I did.

No doubt, everyone would in that situation. I'm not exempt from it either and bought a 52' Ford F100 to fix up on a persons word. Nothing worse than two things in my opinion: a thief and a liar. It's one of those lessons I learned from and went on and was thankful it wasn't a super expensive lesson.

 

[OldCrow]

BF,

Hope everything works out. We had a IH 504 my Dad ran oiless for a while. The oil line that went to the gauge broke and he didn't notice it until the engine started knocking. Bottom end is all we did(4 years) on that tractor and it did fine until it burnt in a shop fire.

 

[dun]

My wife ran an old pinto 4 cylinder for almost a month before she told me they check oil light was one. When I plled the plug all that was there was some oil burned hard on the drain plug. Filled it with 50 weight and drove it for a copule more years. Used a lot of oil and smoked but it never knocked or made any noise.

 

[Bigfoot]

I'm not 100% sure what all was done to the motor, but it's home now. Bill was only $600. I pulled a cultivator with it yesterday, as well as pushed some down trees back up in the woods. Engine sounded fine, and didn't burn any oil. Maybe I'm good to go.

I had the local JD dealer stop by this morning to see what it would be worth on a trade. They had a very good deal on the new side, but were a little low on what I would want for my tractor. We're $4,400 apart, so I guess i got no choice but see how far it'll go.

 

[skyhightree1]

Not that its a miracle fluid but seriously sugest you add lucas to your oil regimen.

 

[Nesikep]

Fellow who worked for us (never on equipment) drove up here to see us in a rental Ford escort.. He decided to take the 'scenic route', and drove that poor car on stuff that I wouldn't drive a pickup on, more like an ATV trail.. At some point he ripped the plastic underbelly of the car off, and poked a hole in the oil filter, after a while the oil light came on, and he drove it 70 miles over a high pass to our place... I couldn't believe it ran that long!. Having no other oil filter, I brazed the hole in it and told him to go to a Jiffy Lube and get an oil change done on it before returning it.

I feel sorry for the sucker who buys that thing at an auction someday.

 

[greybeard]

No doubt, everyone would in that situation. I'm not exempt from it either and bought a 52' Ford F100 to fix up on a persons word. Nothing worse than two things in my opinion: a thief and a liar.

They are both the same thing Old Crow. Thieves. One steals physical things, the other steals the truth--with the latter just one step up (IMO) from child molesters. I normally don't wish bad things on anyone, but if God were to remove liars and thieves from the planet today, I wouldn't shed a single tear, and the world would little care nor long remember they were even here.