Cruise is out

[Soundguy]

Jinman.. these new raised platform CNH's remind me o fthe rowcrop old ford thousand seies.. like the 5000's... they had the paltform.. etc.. and lots of linkages!!

I also much prefer stradleling a tranny. I mowed 10ac monday afternoon with my feet propped up on the tanny of my 7610-s listening to some headphones while I mowed the weeds down for a couple hours.

Soundguy

Greg, it was so much trouble that if I had it to do again, I probably would not do it. It made me hate the raised/flat operator's platform and long for the days when you straddled the running gear and sat on a seat attached to the transmission. It was a serious pain in the "patoot."

I figured out how much trouble it was going to be about half-way through the job. By that time it was too far to turn back and I had to continue. The final straw was having to take off a couple of the bolts that attach the loader uprights. The NH dealer was very helpful and even offered to loan me some tools, but all I asked of them was to re-weld (properly) the plate once I had it removed. They did a great job and I learned my lesson...

 

[gregkabob]

DocHeb, Thanks for posting that page. I'll print it out and take it with me. Will let all know what I find.

Greg

 

[gregkabob]

It's been so wet here I haven't moved the tractor for a week. It's at my buddys place and if I would have moved it I would have left big ruts in his yard.

Good News is it's fixed. It was the magnet! New Holland guys would have fixed it under warrenty (well they kind of did that) but it would have ment me hauling it 40 miles to the shop. Using the info I got from you all I narrowed it down to the magnet. They offered, if I wanted to, to give me a magnet and swap it out myself. Not a problem with me. The tough part was getting the connector apart. It just didn't want to come apart and I had the little tab disingaged. Finally got it apart and all is well.

Thanks all for your help on this and I'm sure I'll be asking more ??s in the future.

 

[jinman]

Good news, Greg! It sounds like your dealer is willing to work with you. That's a good thing.

...now the next time you want to leave your tractor some place for a couple of weeks, don't forget you have a buddy in N. Texas. I have a place you can leave it where it won't make ruts.

 

[gregkabob]

Now that I have a new tractor with a BH I've got a lot of new buddies willing to let me keep it at there place

So far the dealer has treated me pretty good and I'm happy with them. It sure would have been a waste to load it up and haul 80 miles round trip for a quick fix. I figure I saved $$ on gas doing it myself which I really don't mind doing. There going to work me up a price on a shop manual.