Posted by JD Seller on April 22, 2013 at 20:51:31 from (208.126.196.144):
I was not making fun of people that do not have the money to do a repair. The ones I was really meaning where the ones that do have the money but chose to do a halfa$$ed repair.
Here is an example: Know a fellow that had his tractor engine rebuilt. Complete overhaul including head work. He refused to let them install new injectors. Six new injectors would have been $300-350 dollars on a $5000 repair. Two months later he burnt the top out of a piston when one of the old injectors started to stream the fuel. So he had to do the injectors plus a sleeve/piston set and new bearings. So instead of spending $300-350 he spent another $2000.
Another one. I was doing a clutch job on a JD 4430 Quad range tractor. The Hi-lo clutch pack had never been touched. The tractor had 7500 hard hours on it. To have done the Hi-Lo pack would not have been $500-700 (this was 15 years ago) more money because the split was already being done. No they did not want to do it. Two weeks later they lost The Hi-Lo clutch. I had to re-split the tractor and do the Hi-Lo clutch. Cost them about $500-750 labor plus the parts they needed. Where before it would have only cost the parts and a little labor.
An Uncle of mine would run a battery until it was completely dead. He would run it in a tractor when he had to charge it every morning before the tractor would start. He burnt up more generators ,starters, and alternators with junk batteries. He had a MF 165 and would buy 300 CCA car batteries an then wonder why it would not start in the winter. He was always buying on price only never quality. What he spent extra on the electrical systems would have more than bought all the good batteries he would have ever needed.
So these are the kind of things I was thinking of in my earlier post. Not belittling anyone that was strapped for money and doing what they had to to get by.
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