Dealer said don't worry about break in period??

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Dealer said don\'t worry about break in period??

Hi. I just bought a TC24D that had 7 hours on it. I asked the dealer if I should take it easy for the first few hours, because I have seen something about that discussed here before. He just said "Let er' rip", which made me wonder what the hey to do. Is he wrong, or since it's already been run 7 hours, do I not need to worry about breaking it in? Other than that, and a few little things that caused me to think he may not know as much as he could about this machine, he is alright. I've gotten good feedback from the locals who have dealt with him before. Thanks.

Bobby

 

[AndyMA]

Re: Dealer said don\'t worry about break in period??

My New Holland dealer who I've bought a number of tractors from and who has been in business since 1950 has always told me to break them in like I'm going to use them. The only caution he has given is not to run a PTO implement at rated speed for long sustained periods until I've hit the 50 hour mark. I've never had a engine problem in a Ford or New Holland tractor.

Andy

 

[JerryG]

Re: Dealer said don\'t worry about break in period??

His is real close. The only thing is to vary the engine speed and don't just hold it wide open at full load for the first 20 hours or so.

 

[JimR]

Re: Dealer said don\'t worry about break in period??

Just a thought on the break-in period of motors. Have any of you owned a boat with an inboard/outboard in it or even an outboard motor? Did you idle your boat around the lake for 50 hours or so to break it in. There is nothing harder on any motor than the amount of stress on a boat engine when the boat is trying to get up on plane. Nobody that I know of has ever broke in a boat motor for more than 15-20 minutes. That is what a warranty is for. If you blow it up. They will replace it. I feel the same about any engine regardless of what it is to be used for. If it is going to break. It will be within the very first hours of operation. I use to work as a mechanic on cars and heavy trucks back in the 70's. Any motor that I replaced got put thru the course before the customer picked it up. That also meant red-lining every one of them under power. The company did not want the customer coming back with a motor problem. Today's parts are all made on CNC equipment. These methods of manufacturing makes for tighter tolerances on parts being made. Which in turn produces much better engines than ever before. There are no more loose fitting parts or too tight bearings, unless someone screws up in the building process. (In which case you would like to know sooner than later if a problem is there.) Quality Control is at a much higher standard than ever before. Compared to the 1960-70's. Today's engines can outlive yesterday's by 100K miles. Oil improvements have also contributed to this.

 

[thcri]

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Pretty much all right. Run them like your going to use them. One thing my dealer told me though was not to hold the same RPM for extended periods of time. Change every so often. Evidently this helps the rings set??? I have read that before someplace else also.

murph

 

[PineRidge]

Re: Dealer said don\'t worry about break in period??

Bobby the others have covered it all pretty well. I might add one comment however that wasn't mentioned, don't start it cold and immediately put it to work without warming it up first. Diesels don't work well cold and it can damage the engine.

 

[JimR]

Re: Dealer said don\'t worry about break in period??

Ring setting is done by slow increases and decreases in rpms with a load up and down on the motor. This is pretty hard to do with a tractor that drives slowly. Unless you have some inclines where you can run up and down it. On the decline you want to let the engine act as a brake. This will seat the rings. Nowadays I don't think this is much of a big deal as it use to be in the old days. All motors are test run from the factory. PineRidge is dead right about letting your deisel warm up a bit before putting it to work. Deisels ignite the fuel in the cylinder from heat of compression once they are warmed up. Cold motors do not ignite the fuel very well. That is why they need a glow plug in each cylinder to fire the fuel.

 

[frank_f15]

Re: Dealer said don\'t worry about break in period??

work it , only as others have said vary the engine speed. also PINERIDGE made an excellent point about letting the engine warm up before u work it hard, this is good advice, not only when the tractor is new, but i s a good pratice to follow at all times , especially when the weather is cold.