pacorunner
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Has anyone had problems with their 273? I see alot of you swear by this tractor. I bought one about a year ago and am happy, I don't use it commercially just around the "ranch", I have 20 acres that are pretty neglected. I have run across a couple of anoyances that are not problematic enough to take it into the dealer for, I don't have a trailer.
1) The hood keeps popping up. No apparent reason. Most of the time I notice that it is unlatched so I reach up and push it down. If I'm going down hill and it does this it can open all the way forward and I have to stop, get down and close it. Kind of a pain.
2) The seat belt blew up. The plastic part around the female part of the buckle came apart at the seam and thats what holds the spring and mechanism together. I glued it back together and it happened again, Im about to go to UPULLIT and get one from a car.
3) The linkage to shift from lo to hi range bent. It is just a strap of stamped sheet metal. It works fine to go form lo to hi, to do this the lever is pulling the strap. To go from hi to lo the lever pushes the strap, worked fine the first few times but receintly it buckled. Now it buckles every time. I am consiering borrowing a trailer to take it in for this but if they just replace the flimsy strap it will happen again. I will probably make another one or reinforce this one with a small piece of angle or something.
4) The 3 pt lift isn't very high. It barely lifts my box scraper off the ground. I have to tilt it forward quite a bit to keep it form scraping the ground as I'm traveling from project to project.
Have any of you had these "issues"?
What have you done to remedy them?
What other problems/solutions have you had?
1) The hood keeps popping up. No apparent reason. Most of the time I notice that it is unlatched so I reach up and push it down. If I'm going down hill and it does this it can open all the way forward and I have to stop, get down and close it. Kind of a pain.
2) The seat belt blew up. The plastic part around the female part of the buckle came apart at the seam and thats what holds the spring and mechanism together. I glued it back together and it happened again, Im about to go to UPULLIT and get one from a car.
3) The linkage to shift from lo to hi range bent. It is just a strap of stamped sheet metal. It works fine to go form lo to hi, to do this the lever is pulling the strap. To go from hi to lo the lever pushes the strap, worked fine the first few times but receintly it buckled. Now it buckles every time. I am consiering borrowing a trailer to take it in for this but if they just replace the flimsy strap it will happen again. I will probably make another one or reinforce this one with a small piece of angle or something.
4) The 3 pt lift isn't very high. It barely lifts my box scraper off the ground. I have to tilt it forward quite a bit to keep it form scraping the ground as I'm traveling from project to project.
Have any of you had these "issues"?
What have you done to remedy them?
What other problems/solutions have you had?