Some TYM T224 observations.

[Gregster613]

Hopefully that's still leftover from being outside on the dealer's lot. I would address the strong potential of water still being in the tank. If there's a low point drain, you could drain off any water, or if not convenient you could put a water absorbing snake in the tank for a few weeks.
Your previous post mentions high heat from brake light bulbs that can melt lenses... Swap them out with LED's. I replaced all of my tractor's incandescent bulbs with LED's years ago, saving 11.3 amps.

RjCorazza, Is it as simple as it sounds? Just swap the bulbs? Led's bulbs vice the incandescent bulbs?
If it's that simple I'll swap out all of my lights! Including headlights. But - it just sounds too simple! Nothing ever comes easy for me. I don't want to cut wires, change plug ends, or anything that's working fine as is.

 

[JTKub]

RjCorazza, Is it as simple as it sounds? Just swap the bulbs? Led's bulbs vice the incandescent bulbs?
If it's that simple I'll swap out all of my lights! Including headlights. But - it just sounds too simple! Nothing ever comes easy for me. I don't want to cut wires, change plug ends, or anything that's working fine as is.

The bulbs themselves are direct fit, plug-n-play these days. Just get the part number off the incandescent lamps and search for LED replacements for them.

Some late model cars/trucks won't play nice with certain LED retrofits because of the vehicle's computerized controls, but with our tractors, this wouldn't be an issue.

 

[RjCorazza]

My last 2 tractors and truck were a simple swap to the led equivalent base. The exception was the headlights on the tractor, where it was a little difficult to confirm the base type. I ended up comparing pictures and measuring the height of the replacement headlights. The led headlights I selected were somewhat underwhelming in light output, but I rely on much brighter cab mounted led flood / spots on the tractor.
I also matched the led color to the lens color, which supposedly results in more light output. Don't know if that's really true though.

 

[JTKub]

To mitigate the potential heat issue, I swapped out the brake and marker lamps on my T224 with LED equivalents off the Amazon machine. The OEM brake lamp bulbs are 1156's and the markers are 6418's. Just search for LED equivalents for those. It came to about $14 shipped for the 4 lamps. The ones I ordered came direct from Amazon and they came next day.

 

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What is the overall width of the T224? We're looking for a small tractor for difficult-access gardens and chicken coops and I've been considering the T224 or the T254. The overall width of those two as quoted in 100% of the sources I've found on the web seem to come right out of the TYM brochure but the TYM dealer gave me a different number for the T254. I'd go measure them myself but he's 100 miles away...

 

[JTKub]

What is the overall width of the T224? ....

It's about 44" from outside edge to outside edge of the tires. The widest part is the guards around the lights on the ROPS. From edge to edge of those is about 53".

 

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It's about 44" from outside edge to outside edge of the tires. The widest part is the guards around the lights on the ROPS. From edge to edge of those is about 53".

Sweet, thanks. That matches their literature (tires value). That's an impressive light setup. Lucky for us I think that the typical "will it fit" is below the knee for the most part.

I wonder why the dealer guy said 48"

 

[JTKub]

Sweet, thanks. That matches their literature (tires value). That's an impressive light setup. Lucky for us I think that the typical "will it fit" is below the knee for the most part.

I wonder why the dealer guy said 48"

The LED flood lights on the ROPS are very useful, but a bit odd in that each is controlled by their own toggle switch on the back of each housing. They're fed power any time the ignition is on. The other space of fitment concern with the T224 or RK21 can be height of the ROPS. It makes the setup ~7'3" tall. I believe it's designed at this height to accommodate the back hoe attachment.

 

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The LED flood lights on the ROPS are very useful, but a bit odd in that each is controlled by their own toggle switch on the back of each housing. They're fed power any time the ignition is on. The other space of fitment concern with the T224 or RK21 can be height of the ROPS. It makes the setup ~7'3" tall. I believe it's designed at this height to accommodate the back hoe attachment.

What's your top-of-head height on the tractor? Like, how high of a branch could you drive under, if the ROPS is folded down, without ducking? (I'll likely go to the nearby dealer in the next week or so...)

 

[DynamicD]

Sweet, thanks. That matches their literature (tires value). That's an impressive light setup. Lucky for us I think that the typical "will it fit" is below the knee for the most part.

I wonder why the dealer guy said 48"

I wonder if he was taking the bucket into consideration? It is 48"