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KrisHansen
Gold Member
SPYDERLK said:[[[The crack very likely started much earlier from an imperfection at a critical point in the casting.]]] It progressed slowly, finally weakening the connection to the degree that the relatively light work you were doing at the time caused the abrupt snap as it failed fully. Thats usually the way it happens. Its not what you were doing. Its all that you have done, combined with the latent defect that served as the starting point for the crack.
larry
There's still no reason that a top brand model (These are top brand, right?) should last only 305 hours. That's total crap. New Holland is doing nothing to ensure that I go away happy. they offer no guarantee that it would not happen again.
As for the link with the references to broken engines.. Why would people make that up? Why would they give specific fracture locations?
As for Messick saying that these things don't need reinforcements or whatever because they are CUT's not bulldozers, If I knew had to treat my New Holland like it was made of glass, I'd have never bought it. It's a tractor. I don't care that it's small. It should be TOUGH. Why even put a loader on a tractor if it can't handle it?