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Re: Re: Re: Re: What is TA
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Posted by Hugh MacKay on December 11, 2003 at 16:59:08 from (64.228.12.158):
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: What is TA posted by Kelly C on December 11, 2003 at 09:24:50:
Kelly: I'd like to qualify that statment. Back 45 years ago when these tractors were relatively new, many people had trouble with TA, much of it caused by letting tractor free wheel in low, improper adjustment, improper oils, etc. Keep in mind these tractors were probably the first tractors in history where close in adjustments was no longer good enough, and secondly it spelt the end of the saying,"If all else fails consult the manual." The result of all this is many TA's packed up in the 1000 to 3000 hour range, long before they should have. Factor into this TA was also a pioneer attachment. Who was at fault is a hard call. I personally feel IH should have put a few more development dollars into TA and perfected it much sooner. Example freewheeling should have been history within 5 years. We have absolute proof IH was on the right track with TA. Every major tractor manufacturer since has gone to 2, 3 and 4 speed power shifts. Deere and Ford both had complete power shifts for a number of years. That seems to have disappeared in favour of the gear drive transmission with 2 to 4 power shifts. Having said all of this, I will declare that it was possible to take a new 300, 400, etc. and put 10,000 hours on TA without trouble, if proper care and maintainence was adhered to. Another factor you are facing today is, as commercial farmers upgraded their tractor fleets, older Farmalls such as MTA, 300, 400, 350, 450, etc. became the tractor you parked at end of field with wagon and seed and fertilizer, or that spare tractor. The fact that when TA packed up the tractor would run for years in direct drive with no repairs, they were just left in that state of repair. No question in my mind Kelly, you could well be doing TA on a 400 that has been as it is for the past 25 years. To these farmers a 400 with low side out on TA was just as handy as a Super M
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