Wounded Mahindra

[buck12]

I spent the morning at the hunting camp doing a little bush hogging until my hydraulic filter found a log. I was clearing a new trail through a thicket and found a downed tree. I was using the FEL to move the tree when the front tires went over a T section of the tree. As the tires went over it rolled up and a large limb got the filter. It crushed the filter and broke the filter assembly. I had to drive 35 miles home to get tools. Went back and removed the filter assembly. According to a Mahindra dealer website the assembly is $265.20 list. I will call the local dealer Monday to check the actual price if it is too high I will check with a friend that runs a tool and die shop to see if he can repair it. I have posted pictures for your enjoyment Pictures are with a cell phone camera so not the best quality.

 

[Don87]

Ouch..........hopefully you can get it fixed cheaply.

 

[Thomas]

Dang,hope your friend can fix so you won't lighten your wallet.

 

[Porkie]

I looked at Mahindra 5525's and 6525's yesterday and noticed that a LARGE filter, was directly under my left foot, when sitting in the rider's seat and it was sticking down way to far---in my opinion. It looked prone to damage.

I recently bush hogged part of my 40+ acres that hadn't been cut in a few years and there were some 1 to 2 inch sapplings, that were as tall as 6 feet, to cut through. I just imagine those "trees" scraping the bottom of my tractor and ruining everything in their way underneath!! I put the loader down to about 6 inches off the ground and went slowly through those areas and the 72" Squealer bush hogg cut everything in it's path! One of the "stubs" punctured my RF tire though!

Now, in that same scenario if my tractor didn't have a loader, the only safe way to cut would have been to back up, to cut the sapplings.

On the Mahindra's I looked at, some without loaders, some of those filters that were real low, would have been ruined in an instant.

My New Holland TC 40d's filters are well out of the way.

Sam

PS---I'm still thinking about a new Mahindra 6525 with loader as it is very impressive, especially for the money!

 

[wedge40]

Poor engineering. I'm always amazed at some of the mechanical designs that make into production. Had a neighbor who owned an Escort and oil filter was between the engine and firewall. A real PIA to get to. I've always said the guys who design these thing need to work in a repair shop for a year before they are allowed to work on designs.
But something I wouldn't have thought twice about when looking at new tractors. Hopefully when the time come I will remember this.


Wedge

 

[flusher]

I looked at Mahindra 5525's and 6525's yesterday and noticed that a LARGE filter, was directly under my left foot, when sitting in the rider's seat and it was sticking down way to far---in my opinion. It looked prone to damage.

I recently bush hogged part of my 40+ acres that hadn't been cut in a few years and there were some 1 to 2 inch sapplings, that were as tall as 6 feet, to cut through. I just imagine those "trees" scraping the bottom of my tractor and ruining everything in their way underneath!! I put the loader down to about 6 inches off the ground and went slowly through those areas and the 72" Squealer bush hogg cut everything in it's path! One of the "stubs" punctured my RF tire though!

Now, in that same scenario if my tractor didn't have a loader, the only safe way to cut would have been to back up, to cut the sapplings.

On the Mahindra's I looked at, some without loaders, some of those filters that were real low, would have been ruined in an instant.

My New Holland TC 40d's filters are well out of the way.

Sam

PS---I'm still thinking about a new Mahindra 6525 with loader as it is very impressive, especially for the money!

You're right--I have a Mahindra 5525 and the filters are down low. But so is the oil filter on my 1964 MF135 diesel. So crappy engineering might not be the entire problem.
If I needed to run my 5525 through the woods (I don't since my 10- acres is flat hayfield), I rig up some way to protect the filters before getting myself into trouble.

 

[SPYDERLK]

I recently bush hogged part of my 40+ acres that hadn't been cut in a few years and there were some 1 to 2 inch sapplings, that were as tall as 6 feet, to cut through. I just imagine those "trees" scraping the bottom of my tractor and ruining everything in their way underneath!! I put the loader down to about 6 inches off the ground and went slowly through those areas and the 72" Squealer bush hogg cut everything in it's path! One of the "stubs" punctured my RF tire though!

[Surprised :confused2: usually a bushog beats and frays the stubs enuf that they dont hurt tires.]

Now, in that same scenario if my tractor didn't have a loader, the only safe way to cut would have been to back up, to cut the sapplings.

On the Mahindra's I looked at, some without loaders, some of those filters that were real low, would have been ruined in an instant.

My New Holland TC 40d's filters are well out of the way.

Sam

PS---I'm still thinking about a new Mahindra 6525 with loader as it is very impressive, especially for the money!

[[Poor engineering.]] I'm always amazed at some of the mechanical designs that make into production. Had a neighbor who owned an Escort and oil filter was between the engine and firewall. A real PIA to get to. I've always said the guys who design these thing need to work in a repair shop for a year before they are allowed to work on designs.
But something I wouldn't have thought twice about when looking at new tractors. Hopefully when the time come I will remember this.
Wedge

Agreed. My Mahindra is very poor in this respect. Capable of running over nearly anything just so theres a repair facility on the other side. The Kubs and JD are much better on the belly.
larry

 

[Baby Grand]

Poor engineering. I'm always amazed at some of the mechanical designs that make into production. Had a neighbor who owned an Escort and oil filter was between the engine and firewall. A real PIA to get to. ...


Wedge

That design was so unexplainably stupid that they carried it over to the Focus, as I am reminded every time I change the oil on my wife's car.
-Jim

 

[buck12]

I won't blame this on engineering. The filter is actually tucked away pretty good. It is only luck that I have not broken something before now. Many of the hours I have put on this tractor have been clearing thickets. I back in if there is a question. I backed into this thicket and found a downed tree then turned around to move the tree with the loader when the incident occurred.

 

[Ford tractor]

Poor engineering. I'm always amazed at some of the mechanical designs that make into production. Had a neighbor who owned an Escort and oil filter was between the engine and firewall. A real PIA to get to. I've always said the guys who design these thing need to work in a repair shop for a year before they are allowed to work on designs.
But something I wouldn't have thought twice about when looking at new tractors. Hopefully when the time come I will remember this.


Wedge

I agree because we had one of them! Not only was the oil filter only accessible from under the car and was between the block and firewall, it was also directly above the braided stainless exhaust line that went between the manifold and the pipe (to reduce vibrations). Because the filter was horizontal, it spewed dirty oil down your arm and onto the braided stainless. Naturally, by the time the oil was burned off, it was time to change it again.

I would for sure have stern words with the packaging engineer on that vehicle!


Buck12 -- having seen how other companies tuck filters up tight with protection from "stuff", the mahindra with the filter hanging down vertically doesn't sound intelligent. I would certainly lay blame on the engineering department --> who else? Certainly not the tree for breaking the filter...