mwemaxxowner
Platinum Member
I have a relatively new 1880. I've had it about 8 months, and it has about 120 hours.
For the first part of my ownership I didn't use the 3ph much. I'd raise it now and then to move a trailer or something but that was about it.
Recently I've bought a box blade and a rake and have begun using them quite a bit, and I'm noticing that the 3ph is painfully slow to lift. I believe it has been like that the whole time I've had it, I just didn't notice because the times I lifted it it didn't matter much.
When I'm dragging a box full, and I get where I want to drop it, I have to stop and wait forever to lift it before I can drop and go or reverse directions. It's pretty aggravating and really slows me down. You can pretty much forget lifting it to empty the box on the fly. Sometimes it even seems like it won't lift at first and I return the lever to neutral and try again.
I think it's worth noting that sometimes it seems better than others, but it always seems slow to me.
It doesn't seem particularly *weak*, just slow. Neither my box blade or my rake are very heavy, it's not a case of overloading.
My loader functions well, is a good speed and good strength. The 50 hour service was done at the dealership at about 70 hours, but I don't really think this had any correlation to that time.
I feel like this should probably be an issue to let my dealer figure out, but every time I drop anything off for a service or otherwise they have it over a week, and I use my tractor quite a bit every weekend. I would like to just look it over myself first.
My fluid is not low, and the 3ph does not seem to be binding in any way to me. I haven't checked anything else.
I do have 4 rear remotes that were installed at the dealership when new, and a hydraulic top link. I don't know if any of that could be of consequence or not.
Where should I look just to rule anything easy to fix out? I'm tempted to drop the hst screen but I don't know that I want to eat $150 worth of SUDT2.
Many thanks!
For the first part of my ownership I didn't use the 3ph much. I'd raise it now and then to move a trailer or something but that was about it.
Recently I've bought a box blade and a rake and have begun using them quite a bit, and I'm noticing that the 3ph is painfully slow to lift. I believe it has been like that the whole time I've had it, I just didn't notice because the times I lifted it it didn't matter much.
When I'm dragging a box full, and I get where I want to drop it, I have to stop and wait forever to lift it before I can drop and go or reverse directions. It's pretty aggravating and really slows me down. You can pretty much forget lifting it to empty the box on the fly. Sometimes it even seems like it won't lift at first and I return the lever to neutral and try again.
I think it's worth noting that sometimes it seems better than others, but it always seems slow to me.
It doesn't seem particularly *weak*, just slow. Neither my box blade or my rake are very heavy, it's not a case of overloading.
My loader functions well, is a good speed and good strength. The 50 hour service was done at the dealership at about 70 hours, but I don't really think this had any correlation to that time.
I feel like this should probably be an issue to let my dealer figure out, but every time I drop anything off for a service or otherwise they have it over a week, and I use my tractor quite a bit every weekend. I would like to just look it over myself first.
My fluid is not low, and the 3ph does not seem to be binding in any way to me. I haven't checked anything else.
I do have 4 rear remotes that were installed at the dealership when new, and a hydraulic top link. I don't know if any of that could be of consequence or not.
Where should I look just to rule anything easy to fix out? I'm tempted to drop the hst screen but I don't know that I want to eat $150 worth of SUDT2.
Many thanks!
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