Well everyone, The tractor came home a few weeks ago and it was a happy day in the neighborhood. So I was using it last thursday and it started to putter out on me as I was leaving to go home from one my fields. I had to leave the 3 point disk behind because the 3 point wouldn't raise it up high enough, which I thought was odd because it handled the 'bush-hog' the day I brought it home from the shop and yet, once the disk was off, the lift arms worked fine....so I get ready to pull out of my field and the tractor decides to kill out. I get off, make sure it has gas, it does. I check the sediment bowl to see if it is blocked its not, so I walk to the house and go get gas (just to be on the safe side...) and come back. I stick the gas in and look at the spark plugs - on cylinders 2-3 there is oil (blow-by) leaking out of it. I check the oil - its half empty/full. After trouble shooting and a trip to TSC where the manager is an tractor mechanic, he suggests a vacume formed somewhere and that perhaps a gasket failed...just to hedge my bets, I get a new battery. by now its 12am Friday morning, and after trying to put the new spark plugs in, I look up and shine the flashlight at the cylinder head cover and saw the gasket had failed. My poor tractor had 179 hours on it originally, and we had to replace the tachometer because the original one broke, but, the new tach only read 2 hours on it. Thats after 3,6k and a complete engine rebuild with a new-for-me short block (the whole tractor had been went through to fix any problems). Instead of buying a plow tomorrow (probably a Fergie A0-30-14) I am going to visit the mechanics to see what went wrong. They wern't happy when my mom had them come and get it from the field next morning I doubt they will be happy to see me, and I don't think its their fault (I think its a shoddy gasket aka manufacturer's defect) for the most part. Sorry for the rant... it gets discouraging sometimes with this thing. You bring it back from the dead, and hope to do a ton of things around the house and it ends up breaking down - one week after I brought it home. Go figure. Christos
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