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Re: Re: Re: Used japanese tractors
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Posted by VaTom on March 14, 2003 at 07:22:46 from (64.4.123.110):
In Reply to: Re: Re: Used japanese tractors posted by Robert in W. Mi on March 14, 2003 at 06:02:03:
Mornin' Robert, The tractor this time (not my Cat problem over on the crawler board) is a Mitsubishi MT 250D, with no current problem, sold to a previous owner when there were dealerships. It gets maybe 150 hrs/yr use, total 1100 hrs. I've pulled the front end off of it twice. The pivot point was extremely under-engineered for a tractor that came from the dealer with a loader. I now have a steel yoke holding it together, much stronger than when it left the factory with small cast iron and no hardened bushings in the mild steel. Getting that yoke built involved getting turned down by 4 machine shops until I finally found a machinist with imagination to match mine. The clutch linkage failed as I went out last snowfall to clear our 1/2 mi. driveway that rises 400'. Turned out to be external linkage that I'd repaired before, just more metal fatigue from a too-small rod. Fortunately I wasn't far from the shop when it broke. A couple of years ago my power steering sprung a leak that caused oil to gush out of the steering column. The seal in there wasn't adequate for the pressure. It's now been re-engineered also. I've had trouble with too-small cast areas in the front axles that hold the bearings in place giving way and letting the bearings drift. Solution was either a new casting from Japan, amazingly a possibility, or more machine work to fabricate a steel ring to contain the bearing, which is what we did. I'm not really complaining as it's done a huge amount of work for me but I'm headed to an auction tomorrow looking for something larger. Your Deutz dealer, that made my friend extremely happy, hasn't called me. My plan is to keep the Mitsubishi as I need a light tractor to drive on the underground house roofs that I build. I know, not something everybody needs to do. Mostly I've just overworked it using the loader. I thought it was simply too small a front end for a loader until I saw a huge JD farm tractor with exactly the same pivot point problems. I believe my solution is to get an industrial loader. The front seals in the Mitsubishi will spring a leak if I pick up anywhere close to the 700 lbs. the loader is rated for. Hey, but it turns out that the seals are also used on Kubotas so they're easy to get- once you find out the Kubota part number. That took a LOT of phone calls. As this is assuredly more than you wanted to know, I'll quit. The Mitsubishi's great until it breaks and I think that's getting rarer as I beef up the insufficient areas. I occasionally hang a Ford hoe with rigid under-frame off the back, which works very well.
Tom
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