MUDONTHETIRES
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Wow! Pre-delivery inspection is not quite what it once was, that’s for sure.
Check those nuts and bolts
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buck12
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Pre delivery was horrible on my tractor. There was a pin laying on the trailer deck I saw before the young man unloaded the tractor. The pin went to the rotary cutter attached to the tractor. The gear box on the land pride cutter was low. There was a loader manual but no tractor manual. The wires for the third function were hanging under the tractor instead of routed where they would not hang on stuff.
I think I posted a bit of a rant on TBN. I have just decided this is the world we live in, very little pride in work.
Wagtail
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Well, there is a bit of that going on in the world. I prefer to hold to the adage, "Trust, but verify."
My tractor was delivered (in 2013) flawlessly. Mind you, the Owner Manual hadn't been upgraded to include the elimination of two front wheel grease nipples AND the inclusion of two nipples for the FWD/REV pedals.
The manual also didn't include recommendations to lubricate (with a lanoline based 'spray') anything that moved, but didn't have a nipple, or to periodically check for loose bolts, nuts or missing pins.
Tractors, still, are being made to be be 'maintained' by the owner... as long as that owner is prepared to invest in the tools to perform that task. (TBN has been my greatest resource in setting up my own 'shop' with the assets to do this)
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s219
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I bought a dump trailer recently and had a similar experience. I was kicking myself for not being more picky looking over the trailer before I brought it home. I incorrectly assumed someone would properly prep and check it, but in retrospect it was obviously a very sloppy dealer. Here's what I ran into:
1) wrong coupler (7500#) on a 10000# trailer. Caught that while hitching up to my truck before leaving the dealer, but took them two tries to put on a proper coupler that wasn't rusted up. New couplers but obviously stored outdoors. The one they put on was a pain to unhook when I got home and I had to lube the heck out of it. I don't like that style of coupler (jaw type with collar sleeve) for this reason.
2) one tire different than the other three. All same size and brand but different model on one of them. They consider this acceptable but I would have made sure it was a matching set if I caught that before driving off.
3) Rear gate latch was crooked and didn't notice until trying to unlatch rear gate to dump a load the next day. Fixed with some grinding but they should have caught that.
4) because of #3, too much pressure was put on the gate latch lock and it popped off when I unhooked the latch for the first time. Wired it up temporarily then fixed it myself later.
5) on board battery charger works but the battery condition lights don't light up.
6) when they mailed me the certificate of origin, they spelled my city name wrong. Luckily the DMV didn't catch it (or didn't care) when I registered and titled the trailer, but if they did I was ready to make an angry phone call to the dealer.
Thank god the trailer tows beautifully and dumps beautifully, and I already transported about 30 tons of material home with it. But that is too many problems and makes me think the dealer is just really sloppy and doesn't care. Lesson learned. In mid-age I like to trust people to do their job (and everyone was nice at the dealer) but clearly I need to go back to my picky inspect-everything habits.
Citydude
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When done tightening bolts, take a sharpie and put a line from the head of the bolt to the plate its attached to. Then, its just takes a second to eyeball them and look to see if the bolts are backing off.
Zebrafive
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Since we moved to trailers...........I bought a new tilt bed equipment trailer. The dealer was on my way to work, and since I worked 2nd shift, I picked it up on the way. The next morning when I tried the tilt it would not work. I traced this to a dead battery. After charging the battery, I noticed the backup lights on my truck were on. The trailer plug had the wiring for charging the battery wired to the backup light terminal, so while parked all day at work and all night the backup lights were ON and the battery discharged. I fixed that, then found I had no rear lights on the trailer, only side markers from where it tilts forward. Tilting the trailer, I found the wiring harness smashed between the upper and lower trailer frames near where it tilted. I had to splice and reroute all the wires.
oosik
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I've never had a loose nut/bolt on the tractor, FEL or any implement. Made me worry. A year ago I began taking the bolts off the FEL frame. One at a time. I was going to LokTite them all. First one I took off - Kubota uses some type of thread locker on the FEL frame bolts
So ...... I moved to the 56 wheel bolts. One at a time - LokTite - retorque.
So ...... I moved to the 56 wheel bolts. One at a time - LokTite - retorque.
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Citydude
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That's my dealers practice to mark his fasteners when assembled. I was kind of shocked he would mark up my new 4060 that way but it wasn't long before i seen the same thing. Brilliant.