Service manual

Ron Henderson · May 16, 2007

Hi,
It seems to me that by now either Montana or someone in the after market would have produced a decent service manual for our tractors.

If you look on eBay you always find service manuals either paper or c/d's for all the other major brands.

Just getting tired of trying to make sense of the factory owners manual.

Maybe one of you guys with the time and experience could produce a good manual.
I know there must be a market for this as many of these tractors that have been sold.
Might be a good business venture for someone with the know how.

Any thoughts??

Ron

Unclebuck257 · May 17, 2007

Ron,

You are so correct!!! I look at my manual not so much as a service manual, but more like reading a comic book, written by a Korean who didn't understand English too well!!

I went out mowing pastures the other day and had to just sit there a minute and finish laughing before getting started. I went to engage my PTO, and noticed what that little sticker by the PTO switch said. " Disengage PTO before starting engine. If PTO engaged, tractor no go" ( or something real close to that)

I felt like I should be sitting in a Japanese restaurant or something, ordering "flied lice" rather than be mowing my pastures!!

gemini5362 · May 20, 2007

I am curious how dealers do repairs on the montana tractors. Most service manuals have torque specs and adjustment specifications. I have been assured on numerous occasions that there is not a technical manual available and I believe that. I am just curious how the dealers handle not having one.

spinergy · Aug 28, 2007

FYI, Montana has produced a wonderful shop manual for my 3040 / 3440. Its ~200-300 pages, and nicely written and illustrated.

curly · Aug 29, 2007

spinergy said:
FYI, Montana has produced a wonderful shop manual for my 3040 / 3440. Its ~200-300 pages, and nicely written and illustrated.

Did you buy that or was that something that came with the tractor?

spinergy · Sep 1, 2007

curly said:
Did you buy that or was that something that came with the tractor?

No, I contacted Montana directly for the service manual. I believe that this is a brand new product. This is definitely different than the small Korean/English hybrid users manual that was shipped with our tractors.

curly · Sep 1, 2007

spinergy said:
No, I contacted Montana directly for the service manual. I believe that this is a brand new product. This is definitely different than the small Korean/English hybrid users manual that was shipped with our tractors.

What did it take to get it, just a phone call? You need a serial number from the tractor or anything?

gemini5362 · Sep 10, 2007

spinergy said:
No, I contacted Montana directly for the service manual. I believe that this is a brand new product. This is definitely different than the small Korean/English hybrid users manual that was shipped with our tractors.

Are you a dealer. Montana used to have a policy that they only dealt with dealers except on warranty issues. If your tractor was under warranty they would fix it but you could not buy anything directly from them. I am excited that you got a regular service manual I will be contacting montana later this week and if they have service manuals for my 4940C

gemini5362 · Sep 17, 2007

I called montana today. They do have a service manual for the 4940C tractor. The parts person said it covers 4530, 4920, 4940 etc.
I dont know the cost yet and just like I mentioned in the Previous post they would not send it out to me. They only work with dealers. They did however tell me they had it and gave me the number.

SMT-1005A

I called the nearest dealer and they are going to order it and have it shipped to me
I will let everyone know what I think of the manual when I recieve it