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Hi all. Don't know if this would be better posted in operating/using, or, in NH area. But it applies to all equipment, so, guess will post here. As you all know tractor manufacturers have stripped guages from the tractors. NH, in its geared TC, doesn't even provide a temp guage. They use "idiot" lights-accurate expression. An ammeter lets you know more than whether the battery is dead (or rather discharging) just as an oil pressure guage tells you a lot more about the inside of the engine than whether all the oil has run out. I won't go into all the useful things guages tell you, but, suffice it to say, I had guages on my Farmall, and I had no intenion of buying a new, replacement tractor without them. So . . . when I ordered my new NH TC40 I explained there was no deal without guages. Period. The dealer added a set of good quality guages (see attachment picture). I had to settle for electric, rather than mechanical which I would have preferred, but mechanical guages would have necessitated tapping into the block and because of possible warranty issues the dealer did not want to do that. The "idiot" lights were left in place and the circuitry is outside the NH wiring. The reason for this post is to:
1) Urge all new tractor buyers to insist on guages with their tractors, and,
2) Ask how many of you have added guages to your tractors.
JEH
1) Urge all new tractor buyers to insist on guages with their tractors, and,
2) Ask how many of you have added guages to your tractors.
JEH