Silver_Knight
Silver Member
I have been having issues with the A/C on my 3720 which has about 70 hours on it. I took it into the shop for service and had them look at the A/C because it was just not cooling like it should. In the heat of the day 95 degrees with 60% humidity it would not cool below 80 degrees coming out of the vents. I stuck an AC thermometer in the vent and it would not get below 80. In the morning or when I clean the condenser with water it will get in the 60痴 but as soon as I get going again it gets right back up to 80.
I have cleaned the condenser many times. This is extremely difficult to clean because it is sandwiched between the radiator, Hydraulic oil cooler and the turbo cooler. You have the battery on the bottom part and the turbo cooler on the top part so there is really no where for air to go through.
Picked it up at the dealer who said he did the best he could which amounted to nothing. He said that JD just did not design the system to cool?which I agree. He said he was able to get it to cool to 70 degrees coming out of the vent in the afternoon but I tried it as soon as I got home and after an hour of riding around I felt he lied about that because it never went below 80.
I called a couple of other JD stores and spoke to the salesmen to see what they had to say about the AC on the 3000 series. They all said it worked 敵REAT? 笛UST LIKE YOUR CAR and 鉄O COLD YOU CAN HANG MEAT IN THE CAB? We値l friend that is a bunch of 笛DBS?
I知 here to tell you I致e spoke to two different JD service techs and they both have told me the 3000 series AC system does not work well at all.
I took my unit back to the JD service center and told him to do something to make it cool. I did not buy the [best] tractor built today to sit and sweat while watching guys in orange tractors drive buy with chill bumps!
He said he was going to install a small high volume fan on the front of the turbo cooler to push air through the condenser. He said it would be pretty loud but would probably work. We went back and forth a while because I did not want to have to put extra parts on my new tractor o make it work but finally gave in because that seemed like the only thing he could come up with.
Has anybody else had any issues with their 3000/4000 series not cooling and if so what was the fix?
Any ideas?
I have cleaned the condenser many times. This is extremely difficult to clean because it is sandwiched between the radiator, Hydraulic oil cooler and the turbo cooler. You have the battery on the bottom part and the turbo cooler on the top part so there is really no where for air to go through.
Picked it up at the dealer who said he did the best he could which amounted to nothing. He said that JD just did not design the system to cool?which I agree. He said he was able to get it to cool to 70 degrees coming out of the vent in the afternoon but I tried it as soon as I got home and after an hour of riding around I felt he lied about that because it never went below 80.
I called a couple of other JD stores and spoke to the salesmen to see what they had to say about the AC on the 3000 series. They all said it worked 敵REAT? 笛UST LIKE YOUR CAR and 鉄O COLD YOU CAN HANG MEAT IN THE CAB? We値l friend that is a bunch of 笛DBS?
I知 here to tell you I致e spoke to two different JD service techs and they both have told me the 3000 series AC system does not work well at all.
I took my unit back to the JD service center and told him to do something to make it cool. I did not buy the [best] tractor built today to sit and sweat while watching guys in orange tractors drive buy with chill bumps!
He said he was going to install a small high volume fan on the front of the turbo cooler to push air through the condenser. He said it would be pretty loud but would probably work. We went back and forth a while because I did not want to have to put extra parts on my new tractor o make it work but finally gave in because that seemed like the only thing he could come up with.
Has anybody else had any issues with their 3000/4000 series not cooling and if so what was the fix?
Any ideas?