What does a 1066 weigh

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J

This was a fiasco at highway scales on a holliday weekend with 3 tractors on 2 trucks. He made us unload and reload 3 times. I'm certain when we arrived the truck with lone 656 and able to legally haul 10,000# was legal. I knew I was overweight with 1066 and Deere 540A forestry skidder, We left there with 1066 on small truck and 656 and Deere on the trailer. In my opinion when we left there we were both over weight. I think his Thanksgiving work schedule had him in a bad mood. We were there 3 hours, should have had an official weight for each tractor and each truck. After all that weighing I had the 656 with cab pegged at just under 7,000# and the other two just under 11,000# each. I'm thinking he officially had up to 10% tolerance to play with. Both of us 10% over was better in his eyes than one truck legal and one 20% over. I know we could have put either 1066 or Deere on small truck and satisfied him. At least he didn't want money.

Someone must have shipping weights on these, I know some of the heavy chassis 06, 56 and 66 series tractors came in under 10,000# without cabs.

Thanks

J

Allen in NE is probably the closest thing we have to a hydro expert here, IMHO. IIRC he's the one that spent a bunch of time learning, troubleshooting, and changing out parts in his hydro, and successfully got it working again. His foray into hydrostatic transmissions is documented way back in this forum. Forgive me if I'm thinking of someone else Allen or if I misspelled your name.

Well, IMHO, he really should change out that oil and filters anyways. :>)

JPatton:

After you service the tractor changing BOTH filters, take it out and get it good and hot. See if the problem still exits and if by chance it does, is it occuring in both forward and in reverse?

If it still does it and if it is happening in both directions, take off the two control lines coming down on the left side of the transmission and cap the fittings off at the transmission. They take a (I think) #7 A/C cap.

Try it again and see if if the problem is still there.

Be careful, get it out in an area where there is plenty of maneauvering room, because with those lines unhooked, you loose all hydraulic control of the transmission. You are operating it manually with no hydraulic buffer, kinda like shifting an automatic car with the shift lever only. It's gonna be a "bang-bang" deal.

This will tell us if the problem is "upstairs in the control section or downstairs in the "pull portion" of the transmission.

Allan

You also loose your "clutch" and the only way to stop the tractor is to hit that "neutral gate" on the shift control.

Please be careful!

Allan

Thanks for the help. I am currently 400 miles away from the tractor now, so It will probably be the Holidays before I get back to it. I will try to do as you suggested and post the results.

Thenks

J

The ol' heifer probably just needs a good tune up to get it back in fightin' form. :>)

Allan