Here we go another problem !

[G3033H]

Update, they got the new engine, now they have to put it in ! Hoping I can get it back before the weekend so I can get some seat time as net week will be bad timing for me (surgery on wed.)

 

[xring100]

Good luck with both the tractor and your surgery

Dave

 

[G3033H]

Good luck with both the tractor and your surgery

Dave

Thanks Dave Been a bit down not having any seat time, was 60 deg's here last weekend and wish I could have got something done.

 

[xring100]

It was 60 here last weekend and everything was a soupy mess its been a couple weeks since i've fired mine up. We really havent had much snow this year either. So far i had the tractor for 2 winters and its worked great at as a snow preventative device. Now it just snows everywhere but southern michigan

 

[Gary Fowler]

Update, they got the new engine, now they have to put it in ! Hoping I can get it back before the weekend so I can get some seat time as net week will be bad timing for me (surgery on wed.)

That was pretty fast for an engine. I was just reading where a guy busted one of the steel hydraulic lines on his JD and dealer had to order from Japan looking a 30+ days for a new line.

 

[G3033H]

It was 60 here last weekend and everything was a soupy mess its been a couple weeks since i've fired mine up. We really havent had much snow this year either. So far i had the tractor for 2 winters and its worked great at as a snow preventative device. Now it just snows everywhere but southern michigan

I know I've got a mess in the yard but really wanted to scrape the drive and parking area ( stone )

 

[G3033H]

That was pretty fast for an engine. I was just reading where a guy busted one of the steel hydraulic lines on his JD and dealer had to order from Japan looking a 30+ days for a new line.

Gary I was shocked that they got lone in the states ! Think they took it out of another tractor ? Dealer said it came in with a lot of parts on it !

 

[rwork]

I know I've got a mess in the yard but really wanted to scrape the drive and parking area ( stone )

No snow way down here, but my place is a mess as well. It's been rainy and cloudy for the past week. I wanted to really try out my new stump bucket today, but I was slippin' n slidin' all over the place!

 

[joemd11]

Sounds like LS is stepping up and taking care of the problem, as they should, and that is great. But why not just give the OP a brand new tractor. I mean come on, yanking an engine out of a new unit (IF that is what they did) to fix his tractor, with 80hrs on the clock, seems odd to me. Give him a new unit. He will be a happy and loyal customer touting the virtues of LS. Then again, what do I know. I didn't even stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

 

[G3033H]

No snow way down here, but my place is a mess as well. It's been rainy and cloudy for the past week. I wanted to really try out my new stump bucket today, but I was slippin' n slidin' all over the place!

I seen the thread about that stump bucket and wish I had one !!!!!!

 

[G3033H]

Sounds like LS is stepping up and taking care of the problem, as they should, and that is great. But why not just give the OP a brand new tractor. I mean come on, yanking an engine out of a new unit (IF that is what they did) to fix his tractor, with 80hrs on the clock, seems odd to me. Give him a new unit. He will be a happy and loyal customer touting the virtues of LS. Then again, what do I know. I didn't even stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

I'd have loved to have had the option !!!!!! I would've gotten a larger tractor too !!! Temps are dropping it's 21 feels like 11 but still would love to be in the seat again, put 80 hrs on in about 3-4mths working 60-70 hrs a week at work too !

 

[G3033H]

UPDATE for anyone that has been wondering !!!!
The dealer recommended that I get my insurance co. Involved, then after they looked at the tractor they TOTALED IT !!!!!!!!!!! now that was just the tractor not the loader ! Now I got lucky and got enough $$$$ to pay off the loan, now I'm waiting for my overpayment so I can get another tractor! I've been without a tractor since 12/31/12 , What advice can you give me on another tractor ?? Do I sell my loader or try to reuse it? Thanks guys !!!

 

[mangus580]

????? How come the insurance company is involved with a tractor that had a bad engine? Unless the dealer and LS deemed it non-warranty???

 

[G3033H]

Don't know but it only had 81 hrs !!!! But if they wanted it fixed they said the engine was like $8200.00 all by itself !!! I know a kabota engine is like half that ! Also needed the loan paid if they weren't going to fix it under warranty !!!! I'm thinking of going to a different brand !!! Any thoughts ???

 

[mangus580]

So the dealer didnt give you any reason why they didnt cover it? I find that very odd, and slightly concerning.

 

[G3033H]

Very, it took forever for them to com out and get it, now 2 months later I'm left without a tractor ! But also no payments at least I got that ! Magnus did you get to the farm show in Syracuse ?

 

[mangus580]

Somehow I am feeling like I am missing an important piece of information here. This doesnt sound like the way LS normally handles things from what I have seen and heard.

 

[rwork]

I'm with you on this one Mangus, there must be some info missing here. I know if I had a bad engine in that short of time, I'd be getting either a new engine or a new tractor.....from the manufacturer, not my insurance company. Maybe he'll give us the whole story, so we can make sense of this episode. I do hope for the sake of the OP, that they get him taken care of.
Randy

 

[mangus580]

rwork - my main concern here, is that by not getting the full story, someone may look poorly upon LS.

 

[rwork]

rwork - my main concern here, is that by not getting the full story, someone may look poorly upon LS.

This is true, but in all of the LS posts here in this forum, I can only recall one or two complaints. Not a bad record at all. Take a look at some of the "other" forums!