I Still Hate My Tractor
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ovrszd
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No, open station. I work in the timber too much for a cab. Bought it little over a year ago. Thought it would be easy to find a tractor that sized open station. Who would want one right??? Well turned out that was the problem. No one wanted one, no one stocked one. Had to drive to Chicago, 450 miles to get it. Dealer sold 23 that year, mine was the only open station he sold. Kubota pushed it on him. He thought he'd hafta eat it.
WaxMan
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No, open station. I work in the timber too much for a cab. Bought it little over a year ago. Thought it would be easy to find a tractor that sized open station. Who would want one right??? Well turned out that was the problem. No one wanted one, no one stocked one. Had to drive to Chicago, 450 miles to get it. Dealer sold 23 that year, mine was the only open station he sold. Kubota pushed it on him. He thought he'd hafta eat it.
As soon as I posted that I deleted the post because stupid me , right there in your avatar was an open station. That is one mean looking tractor. 95hp you sure have plenty of power.
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KubotainNH
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Good to see you joking. I'm a fan and am looking forward to seeing the outcome. As for photo places, I've used Flickr - Photo Sharing but not enough to say how good it is.
I put a turbo in my JD 755. I had trouble pulling hills. It was like a new tractor after the install. I was going to run my oil return in the valve cover, but the only oil return in the head is through the pushrods. I put on in the oil pan to keep the oil off the rotating assembly.
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/customization/198698-john-deere-755-turbo.html
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/customization/198698-john-deere-755-turbo.html
nspec
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We had a turbo installed on our 4020 back in the 80's so it would run the corn chopper better. Exhaust manifold glowed red, but it ran for many years and man was it an awesome tractor.
the old grind
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Fred, guys, I mentioned inter-cooling a while back and recall hearing that compression heating was negligible up to some boost level, it might have been 6 psi or so. I had also wondered about lag possible with a voluminous path from turbo to intake manifold, and my concern there was whether a Kubo's auto power/shift thingie would be respond oddly to that. I like that you plan something as stated. Cheap insurance to keep pistons cool if that pays off?
Philosophically, (moi?) if Fred can gain enough oomph to offset the higher hydro pressure setting/load and the weight of the cab he'll have what most with this model, less equipped if you will, have now. A little more would be nice, since our guy won't want to nurse the thing up every hill when he's 'haulin'. I suspect that temps somewhere will determine his boost & output limits, hoping that he doesn't cook a piston finding what they are.
Y'know, what's making this thread fun is learning what kind of guy Fred is (besides patient, & tolerant of those opposed), and just how well equipped he is to tackle this. Go team!
Philosophically, (moi?) if Fred can gain enough oomph to offset the higher hydro pressure setting/load and the weight of the cab he'll have what most with this model, less equipped if you will, have now. A little more would be nice, since our guy won't want to nurse the thing up every hill when he's 'haulin'. I suspect that temps somewhere will determine his boost & output limits, hoping that he doesn't cook a piston finding what they are.
Y'know, what's making this thread fun is learning what kind of guy Fred is (besides patient, & tolerant of those opposed), and just how well equipped he is to tackle this. Go team!
wmonroe
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I've really enjoyed this thread so far and can't wait to see Fred's tractor putting out some boost. Anyway my question is, do all the grand L tractors have the same hydrostatic transmission? Can a 3240 be turned up to a 5740 and the transmission live or is each transmission sized for that tractor?
Grateful11
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Late FIL had a M&W turbo put on his IH 686 right after buying it new. Took it from 66 PTO hp to 106hp. It's been Dynoed twice over the years. He used to pull a 2 row NH Silage Cutter/Chopper with it and many other implements. It's still here and looks like new, isn't going anywhere either, nice old iron.
I hope Fred makes this work.
I hope Fred makes this work.
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