Re: Tractor Tech Fatigue

Posted by The tractor vet on January 09, 2020 at 09:57:03 from (104.179.81.68):

In Reply to: Tractor Tech Fatigue posted by Dean on January 09, 2020 at 07:11:10:

Yep , same with anything today on tires or tracks , Morden tech. it's wonderful till it take a DUMP . So you need a computer to talk to the computer and you still can not find the problem so then you revert to changing out parts hoping you find the problem and then you end up with another problem because the one replacement part is defective out of the box So now your chasen GHOSTS and VAMPIRES . Maybe just because i am OLD and enjoyed a simpler life with out all this tech stuff. Back in the good old days of high performance cars life was SOOOoooooo much better because 99.9% of the time you could find a problem wright away . All but two that i had my fingers in that took so real detective work that darn near made me a drunk. One was a 69 Ford Torerno (sp) with a 351 Windsor four gear four bbl. own by one of the girls that belonged to the Ford Drag Club at the dealership i was working at as the performance tech and adviser .Her car just quiet and she had it towed in , So i get looking at it and NO SPARK , why , so i start digging and i have juice going into the ing. switch and nothing coming out so i replace the switch and car starts and runs , do a ten mile test drive and all is well . She gets in a drives off two hours later here it comes again and no spark while i am checking i have juice come back to the points and i drive the car again and this time the service manger goes with me we drive it on all road conditions and we run the bag off it , runs super . Give her the car back and two days later it is back . She is Hostile and i don't blame her once the car is off the hook i get in and turned the key and it fires up just fine and runs normal . Well Sussyme and Al have a POW WOW and we give Sussy a 390 Mustang rag top to drive while i take her car and drive it for a couple days . On a friday evening while out with my girl friend with Sussy's car all dressed up the car just up and quiets , I have my road box in the trunk with misc pieces and parts , volt meter test light and in a parking lot on Market Street in Boardman township in my good white jeans and a nice spots shirt i am working on this car. I was under the dash under the hood looking for this electrical problem and i found it in the resistor wire from the key switch to the coil . With the aid of a Mopar resistor some 14 gauge wire and two wire ends i got the car running aand made a mad dash for home to change wash up and get to the late showing of the move , Saturday morning i called Sussy and told her that i would see her up at Thompson drag strip Sunday morning and she could run her car like she had planed and it would be ready to run as i would have it tuned and Monday morning i would get the part ordered in to fix it . Then we had a 69 Tee bird that had a problem with the cruse control as i did most of the electrical work on both cars and trucks of all sizes . On this one if you had the cruse on and hit the perfect bump she would go wide open throttle and NOTHING you could go with cancel it out and with a 460 385 Hp setting under the hood you were in for a ride at 70 MPH if it went to the mat she would down shift to second the nose would come up and it was YEEE HAW off to the races . Only thing you could do was turn off the key and ride her to a stop . Then get out unhook the chain from the servo to the carb and either dirive it in or tow it in and when you went looking for the problem ya could not find it . That problem was in the steering column and a sheet metal screw . Now today even with the high tech held held test equipment / scan tools a lot of times they don't tell you nothing . I swore up and down i would never buy one , I lied i have one now and will it do it all , NO some times i have to have the dealer scan it and sometimes they can't find it . This is a racket . So you go out and buy a new scan tool today and plunk down 3-say 7 grand for it and when the next new model comes out you have to update and hand then another grand or so for the up date . Is all this new JUNK worth it , myself i don't think so . The only new tech. i do like is the monitor on the corn planter . the one i have on my high tech John Deere ( yes i have one piece of John Deere equipment ) and it is and OLD 1240 plateless all it does is tells me if a row unit stops dropping seeds . That is all it does , does not count the seeds dropped per acre and my GPS quidescence system is the fence post or tree at the far end of the field to get started with and the row marker the rest of the time . Remember ya can get more corn in a crooked row then ya can in a straight row.

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