Posted by pete 23 on February 12, 2013 at 18:01:59 from (74.47.40.242):
In Reply to: Re: 560 Transmission posted by D Slater on February 12, 2013 at 12:21:39:
Some time during that time frame, after the changes were incorporated into production, while at a service training session in St. Paul, Mn one of the higher up's in co. from Chicago came in to visit with us. He said he kept one of those Bower roller bearings right on his desk so he could look at it every day as it got him out of a lot of hot water so to speak. It did, as we were seeing that old ball bearing fail on the pinion shaft in the 400-450's etc even before the 560 hit the ground running. I actually put a update package for a 560 into a 450 gas tractor as customer was upset at second failure in the 450 already. My old boss made out like a bandit on that deal as he kept all the old parts and sold most of them for half price to customer on a 50-50 repair on an old M-diesel. Never forget that one. Went from disgruntled customer to feeling like he made a heck of a deal on parts we had almost nothing invested in.
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