Posted by Tom OConnor on September 21, 2015 at 14:37:09 from (68.36.112.103):
In Reply to: Re: Steiger ST-251 posted by Lazy WP on September 21, 2015 at 05:05:24:
Lazy WP,
It was not my perception of that tractor that formed my opinion it was owning it for ten years. The one I had was a Panther 325. One of the first ones and it had three sun gears in the hubs and on a warm day you could fry eggs on those hubs after it ran for an hour or so. The company came out with a changeover to the five sun gear hub at a cost of about four thousand dollars a corner to fix the problem. The hydraulic system was maxed out to the limit, if you put new shovels on the chisel plow the first day you run it the suck of the points would over power the hydraulics and you would have to stop at the end of the field to raise the plow out of the ground. The air conditioner had a real small compressor that if remember was made in Sweden and was just a bit better than not having any at all and you were sitting nearly on top of the engine. That tractor had 24.5 x 32 tires on it and the banded duals left about three inches of clearance between the tires. Our land is of the sticky nature and they would load up between the tires. The only time they would clean was going down the road where they left several hundred pounds of dirt on the road. The later tractors with the axle mounted duals you had the option of moving the outboard tires out farther to eliminate the problem. A 325 horsepower engine in a farm tractor with a dry clutch is not blessed with longevity. I have owned a lot of tractors in my lifetime and that one just goes down as the poorest engineered one that I have ever owned.
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