Has this happened to your hydro pedal pads?

PsRumors · Jul 12, 2013

Just bought new pads at the cost of $40. Both were falling apart and like this when I bought the tractor at 450 hours.

jinman · Jul 12, 2013

My tractor is quite different from yours and has side-by-side forward and reverse pedals maybe 2" square. My tractor was built in 2000 and I have almost 1900 hours. The pedals show a little sun fading, but not nearly as faded as yours. Mine are still bright orange and in very good condition. For $40, I'd sure expect better.

marc2000gt · Jul 13, 2013

I have 250 hours or so on mine and the one on the reverse pedal looked like yours, when it was still there. The one on the forward pedal is still there, but did come off once.

I take really good care of my stuff, but I am wondering how well my tractor is going to hold up.

lilranch2001 · Jul 13, 2013

PsRumors said:
Just bought new pads at the cost of $40. Both were falling apart and like this when I bought the tractor at 450 hours.

It looks like the pad may have been part of a bad batch of compounded rubber.......

Midniteoyl · Jul 13, 2013

lilranch2001 said:
It looks like the pad may have been part of a bad batch of compounded rubber.......

Or didnt quite fit right..

the old grind · Jul 13, 2013

Hour meters don't seem to account for days spent parked in sunlight.

Nice pads on my new NH, but none on the old one for 12 years so it never occurred to me there even was such a thing 'til I traded up. :banghead: .................

Is this really a gotta-have thing, OR a sign that a tractor is on its last legs?

MiserableOldFart · Oct 2, 2015

I know this is an old thread, but my NH TC26DA uses pedals like that. It is 9 years old now, 600 hours, and I've gone through two sets and need new ones, and I am absolutelly, positively not going to spend $46 plus shipping for new ones. If they were a standard auto size, replacements could be had for about $5 apiece, and this rip-off is one of the reasons, all part-cost related, because the tractor is very good, that I won't ever buy New Holland again. I lost a knob once on the end of the loader lever, and luckily found it after about 2 hours of looking in the snow. I laughed that I had wasted all that time on a $3 part, and went to check, and found out that a threaded round knob about 2" in diameter was a $20 (+ shipping, of course) item. The list is endless. Want to replace loader parts? Forgetaboutit. From what I have seen, Kubota is a little bit more fair with parts, though still outrageous, and I'll likely go with an L series compact if I live long enough to ever get another tractor.

The companies keep changing models so quickly, imho, mostly because they don't want an "8n situation" where one model sells so well that other companies start making replacement parts. It's a damned shame that business as usual has become such a nasty thing. NH even makes identical tractors under Case name with parts just different enough so they are not interchangeable! Shame! Sham!