Posted by mkirsch on September 06, 2011 at 06:03:57 from (64.80.110.74):
A friend's father-in-law has a 340 with a bad PTO. The father-in-law is not at all mechanically inclined, so he took the PTO unit out of the tractor and dropped it off at the local CaseIH dealer to find out how much it was going to cost to fix.
Well, the dealer went ahead and rebuilt it to the tune of $1900... Never asked him whether he wanted it fixed or not... Just went ahead and fixed it and charged him for it.
There is no way he would've EVER approved a $1900 repair. The whole tractor isn't worth that much. Scumbags. Old man with health problems on a fixed income and they try to take him for a ride like that...
He's obviously not going to pay for it, but odds are good he's going to have to cut his losses and let the dealer keep the PTO unit.
What PTO units will fit in a 340? Does it have to be from another 340, or will a unit from a 300 or 350 also fit? I would assume a 504 PTO would be the same, but those are even rarer than 340s.
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