4110 4wd broke - i think - how to verify ?

[SPYDERLK]

Thanks to everyone for the help and especially skipmarcy. Got the 4WD fixed. It was the vertical counter shaft in the final drive on the 'passenger' side. Clean shear. Not a big job after all.

The big question is how long are users going to put up with the weak front drive on this tractor before finally holding Mahindra accountable.
larry

 

[skipmarcy]

The big question is how long are users going to put up with the weak front drive on this tractor before finally holding Mahindra accountable.
larry

My first axle broke just within a month or two of receiving my new tractor in early 2002 and I tried to work with Mahindra for several years while snapping axles and countershafts along the way and then in 2004 when I had a severe problem with snapping the engine to trans bolts - you can search for my old posts here from back then on that. I conversed back & forth with them online and on the phone countless times - reps. and so called service techs etc. and none of them had a fix for their own equipment so I finally gave up. One rep. pacified me enough to quit complaining on this forum - they sent me the extra loader gussets/brackets that the later model 4110's had on them to keep the engine bolts from snapping again and they gave me one of the newer, expensive suspension seats to replace the old spring type seat my tractor came with for some of my troubles. I'm sure the extra brackets really helped strengthen the tractor but the fact that I put some loctite on the engine bolts so they wouldn't loosen again and snap was the real fix in that matter. The new seat was much, much better than the old one - I'm proud to have gotten that although it didn't fit my tractor and I had to customize it to fit. After getting the run-around on my problems so long I just let it lay and marked it all up to experience and quit complaining about it all. I don't think Mahindra uses TYM anymore to build their tractors so it's not an issue for them anymore. I don't use my tractor commercially anymore and it seems to be holding up pretty well the last year I've used it just at home here. Some guys would have gotten rid of it way early-on but I was so happy with it when it was operating well and having been a mechanic for 34 years and able to do the repairs myself at cost of parts only I just kept it and went on. I probably wouldn't buy another - they don't back them up well enough in my opinion and their dealer network isn't stable. I've seen quite a few dealers come & go in the past 8 years I've had mine.