Posted by Mike (WA) on July 28, 2013 at 21:30:50 from (174.31.220.251):
Friend has a grey-market Yanmar tractor. He's moving to town on August 8, and has no place for it- he tried to sell it, but no interest. Daughter has been using my compact utility Deere (also a Yanmar) for about a year, and I would like to get it home, so I was ripe for the pickin' when he made an offer I couldn't refuse.
Cute little tractor- he repainted it, slapped some diamond plate on the floor boards, new seat, just spiffed it up very nicely. I roaded it to my place, about 8 miles, and it ran strong- never even had to shift down for the hill.
But went to put the bush hog on it to test it out, and it turns out he didn't get past the cosmetics. 3 point will go up, but not down. PTO runs- but control handle is frozen and will not shift out of gear. Its a 3 speed PTO, and appears to be in the highest gear, which is about 1500 RPM, so that's not good, either.
I suspect its just gunked up, as that was the case when it quit running after he bought it- I helped him change very dirty fuel filters. But I've got to tear it down to clean it up, so am ORDERING A MANUAL tomorrow (ain't ya'll proud of me?). Operators and parts manuals came with it- operators is basically a series of safety tips, with very little real content, and parts manual is entirely in Japanese, so not a lot of help. Service manual I'm getting is in English, so that's a plus.
Girl needs a tractor for her horse place, and I think this one will be great for her- but didn't really want another project before delivering it. Well, such is life- seems like only yesterday, she was 16 and I replaced most of the front end parts in her Subaru after she ditched it. And put new front sheet metal on her brother's Ford Tempo. And rebuilt her other brother's Honda automatic transmission. Been fixing the kid's stuff for 30 years, so why stop now?
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