What have you done with/to your GC Series 2300, 2400, 1700 Tractor TODAY

[GeneV]

Public Service Announcement:

I was at a Massey Ferguson dealership and another fellow came in to buy a "sight glass" for the rear transaxle cover of his GC1723E. It is just a piece of glass/plastic with a small metal cage inside and some sort of "rubber" seal around it, and it just presses in from the outside. This guy didn't notice that his fell off while mowing and kept running until the hydraulics died on him. Not sure how much hydraulic oil he lost (he bought 3-1/2 gallons) or if he caused any damage.

A dealership mechanic was at the parts counter and said he's seen it 3 other times!

Part number is 360658M1. For $26.24 I bought one to put on the shelf.

So many issues with these later model GC's after the 1705/10/15/20's!
Junk b/h valve thx to bad castings, junk pressure relief valve which causes hydro whine, junk loader valve which leaks, junk backhoe controls enclosure which breaks off, and now this thing with the sight glass.

Dudes on facebook are bitching about having to take theirs back numerous times for warranty repairs. WTF Agco? It's like their new business model is to build a cut-corners tractor.

I'm sure glad I have the old GC1710. I've had literally zero issues with this thing, and I haven't babied it.

 

[jkmfarmer]

 

[hube2]

So many issues with these later model GC's after the 1705/10/15/20's!
Junk b/h valve thx to bad castings, junk pressure relief valve which causes hydro whine, junk loader valve which leaks, junk backhoe controls enclosure which breaks off, and now this thing with the sight glass.

Dudes on facebook are bitching about having to take theirs back numerous times for warranty repairs. WTF Agco? It's like their new business model is to build a cut-corners tractor.

I'm sure glad I have the old GC1710. I've had literally zero issues with this thing, and I haven't babied it.

Hopefully this does not jinx me, but I haven't had any issues. I have seen posts about the sight glass coming out, even on the older GCs. It just presses in and if the breather in the fill cap gets plugged heated oil will create enough pressure to push it out.

 

[GeneV]

Hopefully this does not jinx me, but I haven't had any issues. I have seen posts about the sight glass coming out, even on the older GCs. It just presses in and if the breather in the fill cap gets plugged heated oil will create enough pressure to push it out.

Nah man, if you're fine you're fine. I will say, aside from the backhoe valve issue which I started hearing about fairly early on, all these other issues I'm reading about have been more recent. Maybe they've switched to inferior components recently, I dunno.

 

[masseyrider]

Nah man, if you're fine you're fine. I will say, aside from the backhoe valve issue which I started hearing about fairly early on, all these other issues I'm reading about have been more recent. Maybe they've switched to inferior components recently, I dunno.

The older machines were built in Japan. The newer ones I believe are from Indonesia.
Cheap labor, cheap results.

 

[dicktill]

The older machines were built in Japan. The newer ones I believe are from Indonesia.
Cheap labor, cheap results.

Yes, the later ones are from Indonesia; not sure when the change was made.

 

[polarred21]

Yes, the later ones are from Indonesia; not sure when the change was made.

One of the biggest things I hate about my 2024. So far so good at 13.5 hours.

 

[Dmacleo]

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been epoxied on 2 different breaks in last 15 months and a third break just happened.



edit:
oh yeah, I mentioned the woods tiller seal a few posts ago. massey dealers no stock, calls into woods reps from my dealer as to why as the seal fits MANY woods gearbox (not just tillers) models. woods had 0 stock to ship and are unsure when they will get more, this is woods themselves not those who already have some stock.
messicks and other online stores had a few but 20+$ shipping for a 34$ seal. nope. I would swap tiller to 140w oil before paying that.
new holland rochester (indiana) had them free shipping, 4 in stock. now only 2 in stock because of me.
but I checked a lot of dealers including JD dealers and lot of parts sellers. if they had them shipping cost almost as much as the seal and none listed a lot of stock.
so when I found the new holland dealer with an ebay store with free shipping and 4 on hand...I bought 2. had a tracking number 3 hours later. only 1 seeping but same seal used in 2 spots. due in thursday.
thing is....the amount of seepage presently I could go at least 1 full season before I need to add fluid BUT....better to have on hand for when it does fail.
so if you got a woods tiller and it uses seal #1032437 (the 2 gearbox side seals) order some have on hand.