Ryan03
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- Joined
- Feb 26, 2006
- Messages
- 656
- Location
- Chardon Ohio
- Tractor
- Farmtrac DTC270, Kubota G5200hydro, Honda recon 250, Suzuki King Quad 450 4x4, 2003 2500 DMax/Allison 4x4
My brother in law Has a almost new New Holland cut, {same as a TC-30, but with a different name for this year} It has a factory installed frontend loader with 4 wheel drive and ag tires. On Friday, he was giving it a good look over, and noticed one of the ears on the engine block where the bell housing bolts on was broken off, and the bell housing had a couple of big cracks in it in the same area!!!!! Since this tractor is only around 6 months old and has 57 hours on it, he immediatly loaded it on his trailer and took it to his New Holland dealer which is close by. He said they seemed realy surprised by this, but were very reassuring and insisted that they would cover it under warranty. They were thinking a new short block and bell housing would take care of this. They feel that the block casting was a defective peice, which led to this failure. I have not seen it with my own eyes yet, but I will probably go over tonight to take a look since he lives 5 minutes away. I thought that I read something on here in the past 6 months about some thing similar happening to somebody elses TC-30, but I cannot seem to locate it. Does any body know if this is a weak link with this tractor, or just a fluke. The tractor has not had any kind of back hoe or other ground engaging attachment on the 3pt. hitch, just the home made 900 lb counter weight that I gave him. I will say that he has worked the loader end of it pretty hard, not grossly abused it, but worked it harder than most probably do. I will try to get some pics of damage.