Posted by The tractor vet on March 24, 2014 at 09:15:35 from (75.19.115.57):
In Reply to: Repair costs posted by BigTone on March 23, 2014 at 18:14:31:
Having the work done by the dealer i would bet you will get ten grand in it . if you have the engine and clutch and T/A done . I know of one guy that had his 806 done at the local dealer ten years ago that had all that done and he had over 9 grand in it . I did a 1066 for a guy one time that just had to have a 1066 and came to me for a tractor , at the time he was looking i did not have a 1066 setting but was going to a couple sales and if he wanted a GOOD 1066 i would find him one that he could take to the field for 85-8700 bucks . Told me that was way to high. Ok fine and left it at that . A couple months later they come back and want me to do a clutch and T/A job for them on a 1066 they got at a sale close by . Yep i can do that and it will cost you this much IF i do not find anything else that NEEDS replacing . When the tractor arrived at the shop i about fell over , i knew the tractor years back that 1066 was hit and broke into three pieces by a semi coal bucket . I had even went and looked at it after it was hit to see if maybe i could buy it and fix it . It sat for years and some one pieced it somewhat back together with what ever junk they could find . The dash support was broken and they used flat strap and 1/4 inch bolts to put it back together . Then it was sent to a consignment sale and they bought it for 5200 I asked them if they wanted to replace the broken stuffand they said yes ok fine. When i pulled the center section out of that tractor each and every bolt BROKE off and had to be drilled out and removed I mean every bolt . I could see i was loosen my rear on this job .When i opened up the speed transmission every gear and both shafts and all bearings were junk . I stopped wright there and called them to come down and take a look and let me know what they wanted to do NOW . This 1066 was the never ending job and went from a bid job to a by the hour and by the piece . When it left the shop there were few bolts that were left untouched from the ft. of that tractor to the rear . When it did leave it was totally rebuilt repainted and retired and the total bill ever at my rate was close to 19000 grand . The only thing they said was We should have just let you find a good one that would have went to the field would have saved us some money . Sometimes ya just have to know when to take your licking pay tuition to the school of hard knocks and move on to the next learning experience , Yea i have paid into it more then once . I also have fixed many such bad deals for people and tried my best to keep there tuition payments down as low as i could for them.
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