DK35vince
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Agreed
And the dry clutch on a hydrostat machine is generally only used to start the PTO, so minimal wear and should last many thousands of hours
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And the dry clutch on a hydrostat machine is generally only used to start the PTO, so minimal wear and should last many thousands of hours
Soundguy
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Exactly. Kind of like the up-service charges dealers try to hit you with when you bring in something for service.
Say.. your muffler bearings are looking a little weak.. since you are getting your oil changed we should do them too. and that clutch.. schucks.. those things just crumble and their fingers fall off. might better do it now before it explodes in a fireball on you in the pasture...
And on the OFF chance that the guy was right and the dry clutches go bad THAT fast 'on time', I'd either switch brands or ask for parts without an hour meter.
I've never heard such bull in my life....
Soundguy
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one would hope it would last, since the hydrostat tranny does the bulk of the load shifting for speed changes..
jwstewar
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Apparently you guys don't comprehend that he wasn't trying to sell me anything, we were at our kids" band concert when we were discussing it and he was trying to help me diagnos my problem without having to split the tractor. He wouldn't gain anything from me buying parts because they would come from New Holland and he works for Deere. Again, folks here don't want to admit they may not see the volume of tractors he does and may not know everything.
JimRB
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My tractor has about 600 hours on it and about 18 years. Something squeeks when I press down on the clutch pedal. I have also had the disk stick twice. I figure I need to crack the tractor to relube a few places that do not have grease fittings. The input shaft, the pivots on the pressure plate, the places where the clutch linkage goes from outside to inside the bell housing... My diesel car probably needs the same service but I do not hear it squeeking over the noise from the fuel pump.
Keeping with side notes related to clutches, the mechanic who replaced some bearings inside my Toyota's transmission, used a Chinese pilot bearing, or was it a Chinese throwout bearing when he did a clutch job at the same time. Anyhow something started making noise in less than 2 years. I replaced those bearings with Toyota bearings which never made any noise in the years that followed.
Keeping with side notes related to clutches, the mechanic who replaced some bearings inside my Toyota's transmission, used a Chinese pilot bearing, or was it a Chinese throwout bearing when he did a clutch job at the same time. Anyhow something started making noise in less than 2 years. I replaced those bearings with Toyota bearings which never made any noise in the years that followed.
JimRB
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My tractor has about 600 hours on it and about 18 years. Something squeeks when I press down on the clutch pedal. I have also had the disk stick twice. I figure I need to crack the tractor to relube a few places that do not have grease fittings. The input shaft, the pivots on the pressure plate, the places where the clutch linkage goes from outside to inside the bell housing... My diesel car probably needs the same service but I do not hear it squeeking over the noise from the fuel pump.
Keeping with side notes related to clutches, the mechanic who replaced some bearings inside my Toyota's transmission, used a Chinese pilot bearing, or was it a Chinese throwout bearing when he did a clutch job at the same time. Anyhow something started making noise in less than 2 years. I replaced those bearings with Toyota bearings which never made any noise in the years that followed.
Keeping with side notes related to clutches, the mechanic who replaced some bearings inside my Toyota's transmission, used a Chinese pilot bearing, or was it a Chinese throwout bearing when he did a clutch job at the same time. Anyhow something started making noise in less than 2 years. I replaced those bearings with Toyota bearings which never made any noise in the years that followed.
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