Thanks Jwr,
I will do my best here
1 No the repair has stopped the Savage Shuttle so that is not happening any more
2 That is completely current and not only means you have to drive the tractor everywhere under its power even down hills or it will stop, shuttle to neutral and it still has the drag and it was Large before, Here I am talking about when it came back from repair, driving it at that time had huge amounts of drag/ it felt like binding in the tractor driveline and I described it that way. BUT I now believe that there was two faults there at the same time, it would chatter up and down at slow speed in the front diff wheels, as if tires to high and on Tarmac and it would also roll and bind up then free for a second and then bind again and if I steered the tractor it was much worse. I thought this was something the missaligned when reassembling the tractor, Diff Lock was almost impossible to get in, in fact I would have to stand to get it in and this was never like this before this splitting.
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I then found that it Blew the Front Bevel Gears in the Left hand axle, Now I believe that binding and letting go was actually that as I don't know when the diff was damaged but I do know without a doubt when it let go. I wrongly thought they were one fault and I am sure they were separate. But the Binding and loading of the Drag was a consequence that came from the O rings having next to no clearance now and I suspect you are totally right when you said this was not a good fix, but it was their fix and I suspect they have only done a few, I also suspect that these next fixes really did not happen where someone had dead flat farm land and no hills, because the drag causes massive power problems with hills and stalling.
This also can vary in serverity where I have had places where I must go all the way back to low range to be able to take off and yet the tractor had no load or bind issues before the repair. Also I must mention here to you that this drag obviously makes it harder for the motor, but now the Hydrualics take a huge toll on it, and also then if you apply steering then its gunna stall within seconds she will be Knocking to a stall, the 3 combined just rob everything and this tractor never was like this before, those other fuctions could be operated without bothering the motor at all so I don't know the why's but I can tell you what happens and quickly, I really don't feel the motor has a part in this like a loss of power from the pulling in half but the Hydrualics take a huge toll on it and this makes it extemely un predictable cause you can't tell when something will mount up and its all over so very quickly just by turning the wheels.
Sorry for that but I have jumped from the first repair of the splitting the tractor and how it came back, this last bit is actually now.
3 They have never told me anything at all of the repairs after the splitting, they have never discussed what they did or didn't do and in fact that letter I posted is the sole correspondence I have ever recieved from the Dealer which is zero and that one letter from Agco. I Tell you what the tractor was before and what it is now. To answer this remember there is 2 repairs here, the one where they split it in half is where the drag came from. Lift capacity was excellent when it came back, meaning it was as it was when I bought it and that never changed, only the Valve issue existed, Performance was excellent.
The Change came when the Diff Blew and you saw the letter in that letter I can not find anywhere that mentions changing any Hydrualic setting but he does say that all operations are working as per specifications, but does not mention adjustments, Later I will post video of it doing loader work in which it lifts heaped buckets of dirt material with ease and after they worked on it you have seen its limitations, More to this I have to say to you I don't know what has been done, Just the Tractor left here in full capacity of lifting and that is what came back, but remember he respond to say the Drive of the machine, But my Complaint to him entailed the drag so I believe they lowered pressure to try to lower the drag becuase I feel it has some connection to the O rings and oil transfer causing a back pressure of some kind causing the Binding/ Load/Drag but I have no idea how or what they did, See My problem solving is good and methodical So I now know that the 3 things are linked the drive, the Loader and then Steering, and I can tell you the steering is the last circuit so to speak in the sharing of oil and function and will be the one robbed if they are used in order.
I had that many times, change direction then lift loader and trim bucket for carry = no fluid in the Steering and would not return in respectable time, I admit I did not pursue this for any time frame instead I went to moving the tractor where ever it was pointing until the steering came back on line. I did allot of loader work so this was all the time when close to the truck, if you were running straight back, then my guess is many may never have known this was there.
4 In my Case the loss of steering was never a load issue it was always a fluid issue I believe, once it comes back with a large heaped bucket it has tons of power and moves the wheels back and forth with ease. I could cause it without load on the axle randomly it wasn't related to the bucket always being full, I have had it many times with just a bale of hay in it and having operated the 3 funstions in order. but its even more apparent now and random because I believe the lower pressure or what ever is causing this reduction in operational function.
You say there is no adjustment and mention the relief pressure which is what I think they lowered to stop the Tractor from being able to lift or break out much, Now they have not told me they did anything to this, only that is what I have now and what I had prior to this inspection and repair of the diff would lift perfectly and stablity was fantastic.
I can't tell you what causes the Binding or load if you want cause that is what it actually is, but saying that the tractor never releaves that load even in neutral is the best way to explain it, now you and I know that if in Neutral then it should be in Neutral and no load or resistance but it has only ever free spooled once since all of this repairs happened and I have never been able to cause it again. Honestly I am positive they have given up becuase they have never gone this far and they don't understand why and instead of taking it back and replacing it they have chosen a bad path and don't want to go back the other way at this point which is really crazy.
SO where do you think that binding is then, Cause its massive, but it is less now then the first repair, you see I was blaming the Binding for blowing the diff becuase originally I thought they aligned something wrong and that loaded one axle in the front diff which makes no sense at all and they say its impossible, but I run it full time in 4 wheel drive becuase of the slippery conditions and steep terrain, but back then prior to the diff I did go to 2 wd drive and the resistance from memory in truning was gone?
Also back then I put the slasher on and the Tractor had trouble running it, I do believe that it was also related to all of this, I guess I must throw it back on and test it again to check that as well but it may have been more like the other issues of Shuttle, loader, then steering and nothing left to run the tractor as the load took over.
Prior to the split this tractor has never stalled from the Hydrualic Pump load yet it can be done now so I have no idea.
