LS Room for improvement.

[Gary Fowler]

Regarding sleeveless design, which I have no info on whether it is sleeveless or not but it could be designed so that if it does wear down, you could bore it and get larger rings for it. I dont think we (Dad and I) ever wore out an engine on the farm tractors. We had a rod bearing go out on an AC 190xt that caused one cylinder to need repair but as for wearing them out to the extent of excess oil usage, never did that and we had thousands of hours on them. I dont ever expect to put that kind of hours on mine. We ran our tractors 16 hrs a day in the spring and fall breaking ground for 2-3 month spring and fall and then cultivating 12+ hours per day during summer to the turn of a 1500-2000 hours per year. Saw lots of tractors (60-70'S) with more than 10,000 hours on them and still going strong. Most of them never changed hydraulic oil and back then didnt have a filter either. Oil was changed about 250-300 hours if we had time, but might go 500 sometimes. Of course all the diesels back then used 1-3 quarts of oil per day in hard load conditions so the oil was new every 4 days and the filters were triple the size of the one on my tractor now, maybe the new ones are better filters for the size but I doubt it.

 

[lontex]

Thats good news about the speed, as I have to truck 4 miles down the back roads to get Fuel. that TT75 NH I had was a 19 mph Tractor it seemed to take for ever to get to where I was going. also good news on the sleeve less engines I have never had on myself they have all way's been wet. Did the Sleeve less Engines ever heat up? with the wet sleeve engines you had that water jacket sloshing around those sleeves. helped to keep the sleeves cool. I nearly bought a NH TD 5050 that thing was worse it topped out at 17.5 mph according to the paper work any way. I spoke to the dealer to-day to see if the 7010 had left the dist. point yet and he said no as they were putting a load together. I guess to keep the shipping rates down. I told him that I was not In any hurry because I have no chores to do this time of the year. he said 'thank you' with a big smile on his face. LOL.

 

[Gary Fowler]

I may have mislead you. All our tractors had wet sleeves but we never had a problem with having to replace the sleeves due to wear and we put thousands of hours per year on them. I dont think I would worry about it. I'm sure that if a problem occurred, you could bore it out at least one time and put in oversized pistons and rings if needed but the engine should last well beyond 10,000 hours with the good lubricants that we have today.

 

[lontex]

10.000 hrs will outlast me. I kinda wished I could get an after cooler on the 7010 I am getting. I don't put too many hrs on the clock, around 70 per year, when I sold that NH TT75 It was 3 years old and had only 214 hrs on It. when you road tested the Tractor did you try to leave Rubber, or do a wheely. LOL.

 

[Gary Fowler]

On the road test, I only ran it far enough to get the RPM to max and then shut it down, turned around and ran it back home. My county road is so narrow that 2 cars can barely pass safely and has blind curves and hills but that doesnt slow vehicles down too much on it so I am afraid to get out too much on the road. I dont think I would want to go much faster with a tractor than the LS travels. I used to road our 9000 Ford tractor with dual wheels and 14 foot wide breaking disc about 12 miles between fields and about half of that was gravel road. It would do 25 MPH and that was plenty fast with all that weight swinging back and forth on the drawbar. I would have to pull into the ditch sometimes to let cars pass but back then it wasnt a lot of traffic like today where every adult and child in the family that is driving age has a vehicle and they are always on the road. If everyone drove mileage like me, there wouldnt be a fuel shortage. Even though I have 2 vehicles, wifes is 9 years old, mine is 5 and between the two we have barely 100K miles. Most of my kids put 30K per year on their cars which amazes me that they ever get anything done at home.

 

[lontex]

Whats the 'Automatic lift Arms'? I see on the rear Fenders there is cut outs to put those switches to raise the arm's, but no switches are fitted. so I just wondered what that ment. I see what you mean about the cars, we bought a Hyundai in 2002 102.000 miles on it and the wife would get rid of me before she would let that car go. I have a Ford 250 Diesel which is of limits to the wife 98.000 miles she don't get to drive my pickup, because she can't drive. LOL

 

[Gary Fowler]

The specs still say that it has that feature so there is a small T shaped toggle with a green button below it kinda in the center of the right fender. What it does is allow you to raise and lower the lift arms without touching the lift lever. SO, you set the height that you want a piece of equipment to run, say your bush hog. Then when you want to lift it, just pull back on the toggle and the lift raises automatically. To lower just hit the green button and it will lower to the preset position. Beats raising and lowering the thing with the lift lever and hoping that you got it back where it was.

 

[lontex]

Thats a nice feature, I don't know what sort of service I will be getting from this Dealer, he didn't know what the Automatic lift arm was. LOL

 

[lontex]

Just found a photo of the cab, I see that green toggle and button. nice.

 

[ozley]

Just found a photo of the cab, I see that green toggle and button. nice.

I don't have my book with me but I believe if you have the PTO on auto and using the green toggle turns off the PTO when you lift and on when you let the back down using the button.