For those of you who are thinking about buying a Lenar tractor let me tell you about mine. I bought it one month ago for $7,000 + $1,000 shipping. It came with a 1000lbs bucket and had 6Hr on it.
I now have 19Hr on it and have had the following problems. First off I must say the paint job and chrome plating are poor at best. I have already had to paint several places on the chassis and most of the chrome parts are showing signs of rust. This is not a big problem but I would have expected better. ALL of the yellow Zink plated hardware is showing signs of rust and I have had to remove several bolts and repaint them to stop them from rusting. The only think I can think of is that this tractor sat for a year outside before it was sold to me. Still it should of held up better.
The first real problem started at 7Hr when three of the gages stop working.(water/tac/oil). The gages continue to work intermittently until at 8Hr the whole display quit working. After talking to the dealer I bought the tractor from. They had me check the ground to the fuse box and it was loose. I tighten it and all the gages worked. But this was short lived and within an hour of running the three gages stopped working again. I removed the whole display and trouble shot it and found a cold solder joint that was causing the problem. So things looked good. HA HA not so fast.
The next problem was the front lift cylinder fitting was leaking. I tightened it but it kept leaking. I called the dealer again and he sent me a new fitting. That did not fix the problem. After removing it again and applying some liquid gasket to it seems to be fixed. We will see.
After a long day of work I walked around the tractor only to find that both tail light assemblies had melted to the bulbs in them. I called the dealer again and he sent me two new one and asked me to make sure that the bulbs did not touch the lenses. Well guess what they where not touching in the first place. Cheep plastic I guess. So I do not have the brake light/ light bulbs in at all now. So far this is all that has happen so from what I have heard I guess I’m lucky so far.
The transmission was very stiff and hard to shift but it seems allot better now that it has some time on it. Although I have found that the linkage is very sloppy.
The engine seems to run good but I’m very worried about it. I have only 19Hr on it and the oil is already looking dirty and I have heard some strange noise from time to time. So I plan to change it soon with high-grade synthetic diesel oil. I would like to know if anyone else had used this type of oil. I also plan to change the hydraulic/trans oil to synthetic oil too.
One thing I did notice about the Engine is that it looks like it was repainted. Does anyone know if theses supposed new tractors are really new or are they refurbished?
I thought I was buying a Chevy but Got a Yugo
If anyone know of any heads up items I should look for please let me know. I would like to see this tractor last at least a couple hundred hours.
Anyway if I had to do it all over I would probably still buy it because it has done the job for me and the cost was right. But we will see.
I now have 19Hr on it and have had the following problems. First off I must say the paint job and chrome plating are poor at best. I have already had to paint several places on the chassis and most of the chrome parts are showing signs of rust. This is not a big problem but I would have expected better. ALL of the yellow Zink plated hardware is showing signs of rust and I have had to remove several bolts and repaint them to stop them from rusting. The only think I can think of is that this tractor sat for a year outside before it was sold to me. Still it should of held up better.
The first real problem started at 7Hr when three of the gages stop working.(water/tac/oil). The gages continue to work intermittently until at 8Hr the whole display quit working. After talking to the dealer I bought the tractor from. They had me check the ground to the fuse box and it was loose. I tighten it and all the gages worked. But this was short lived and within an hour of running the three gages stopped working again. I removed the whole display and trouble shot it and found a cold solder joint that was causing the problem. So things looked good. HA HA not so fast.
The next problem was the front lift cylinder fitting was leaking. I tightened it but it kept leaking. I called the dealer again and he sent me a new fitting. That did not fix the problem. After removing it again and applying some liquid gasket to it seems to be fixed. We will see.
After a long day of work I walked around the tractor only to find that both tail light assemblies had melted to the bulbs in them. I called the dealer again and he sent me two new one and asked me to make sure that the bulbs did not touch the lenses. Well guess what they where not touching in the first place. Cheep plastic I guess. So I do not have the brake light/ light bulbs in at all now. So far this is all that has happen so from what I have heard I guess I’m lucky so far.
The transmission was very stiff and hard to shift but it seems allot better now that it has some time on it. Although I have found that the linkage is very sloppy.
The engine seems to run good but I’m very worried about it. I have only 19Hr on it and the oil is already looking dirty and I have heard some strange noise from time to time. So I plan to change it soon with high-grade synthetic diesel oil. I would like to know if anyone else had used this type of oil. I also plan to change the hydraulic/trans oil to synthetic oil too.
One thing I did notice about the Engine is that it looks like it was repainted. Does anyone know if theses supposed new tractors are really new or are they refurbished?
I thought I was buying a Chevy but Got a Yugo
If anyone know of any heads up items I should look for please let me know. I would like to see this tractor last at least a couple hundred hours.
Anyway if I had to do it all over I would probably still buy it because it has done the job for me and the cost was right. But we will see.