Re: MF 1155

Posted by robert major on April 29, 2016 at 22:50:55 from (216.130.68.165):

In Reply to: MF 1155 posted by rkc9700 on April 29, 2016 at 16:45:09:

Hi As others have said motor parts are getting scarce, The motor shop I used for Ag stuff closed down but the year before they did, I tried to get bearings for a guy here on the forum. it took all their contacts 30 seconds on the phone to say no, so basically you are hunting for parts unless you get lucky.

If that tractor is low hours and not done heavy tillage the rear end and trans should be ok, as long as the low hours aren't round the clock. like it says 5600 but is really 15600 hrs. I had an 1135 like that it had issues with the issues. The weak points are the drive couplings from the flywheel through to the pto, and the main drive one from the gearbox to the rear axle. They can both strip splines, you only know this when it looses drive to the wheels or pto.

The the final drives can loose teeth and start break up to, usually you don't know that until scrap starts coming out when you change the oil / it starts making a noise, or it goes bang one day under load . if you stand on the brakes while driving and it grinds chances are filings are going through the hyd system ,Like with the JD's when the discs wear out.
You probably won't get chance to pull the trans/hyd drain plugs and see what comes out with the oil when you look at it to buy. If the hyds have filings in that can be a complete expensive night mare my 1135 was when it went wrong, it destroyed the whole system of valves and pumps, the charge pump was a reman and $750 3 years ago. If it's multi power the discs can wear in the drum and cause it to hang up between the low and high shift. My 1135 had that issue and i know of a 55 doing it as well.

There are guys here will tell you there are none of these issues with these tractors But I found lots of them in wrecking yards round me in Canada when I was looking for parts to fix my 1135. Those and the 55 use many of the same components and had the issues and was why they ended up there .

I looked at 20 tractors before I got enough usable parts for the trans and the front hyd pump . I used to also work in a wrecking yard that closed down. there was 5 or 6 in there back 15 years, that had these transmission issues when we started tearing them down, when customers called for final drive parts for theirs.
If its genuine like you said it "should" be ok for a while, if it looks rough or wear doesn't add up for the hours on the clock, you either buy it cheap and hope or run Forest run as it could turn into a total headache real quick. After my experience with the lower power 1135 I personally wouldn't but another massey from those 2 ranges of tractors, I went through mine fixed it sold it and it was still a pain inthe butt for the new owner. Regards Robert

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