Re: What is your favorite Farmall?

Posted by G/MAN on December 05, 2004 at 13:44:06 from (67.52.48.10):

In Reply to: Re: What is your favorite Farmall? posted by Cliff Neubauer on December 03, 2004 at 15:10:38:

I'm not trying to start a war, but as a Deere fan and technician that grew up on and around IH tractors (66s and 86s primarily), The 88-series still wasn't up to par with a lot of other tractors available at the time. IH still didn't have a full powershift transmission, while Deere had offered three transmission options on some of the 30-series tractors and was offering two trans options in the 4640. Deere then came out with a 15-speed full powershift in the 50-series. The 4840 and 4850 came with the powershift standard. Opinions vary greatly on the shifting quality of the Deere powershifts, particularly the 8-speeds, but the fact is that they are very strong transmissions and hold up well. Had the 88-series been introduced in the later 70s it would have been pretty modern, but in the early 80s didn't offer anything that the other makers didn't have. The blow-through fan arrangement on the 88s was also not the best idea, serviceability-wise. I replaced the cam and piston and sleeve in a buddy's 5288 last year and getting that front end assembly on and off was the biggest hassle of the whole deal, along with having to remove the entire front axle assembly to get the front cover off. I'm replacing the cam and doing an overhaul on a 4650 right now and had the cam out and replaced in less time than it took to get the front cover off on the 5288. If you want to see a couple of tractors that really rewrote the books and were quantum leaps ahead of the competition, as a Deere guy I would refer you to the 4010 and the 8000-series. Particuarly the 8000-series, as every feature that Case-IH criticized about them at their introduction somehow magically appeared on the Magnum MX tractors. I also don't believe that the 88s put IH in the #1 spot as far as sales go. My personal opinion is that the 88s were a beefed up and reworked version of the 86s, much as the 86s had been of the 66s. I don't think IH had the capital to develop a brand-new from the ground up new tractor, or they likely would have done so. Still and all, the 88s were and are pretty good tractors and your's is a darn nice looking machine.

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