Re: Re: Re: Re: Perkins, Cummins electronic diesel

Posted by G-MAN on October 02, 2003 at 16:08:29 from (67.52.48.10):

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Perkins, Cummins electronic diesel eng posted by Ben in KY on October 01, 2003 at 12:23:44:

There are a lot of guys that don't want them on tractors, but the problem is that the environmental regulations require them, if the machine is to meet emissions standards. There is also a rapidly-growing contingent of farmers that realize just how much electronics can improve productivity and add to the bottom line, particularly with a farm economy like we've got now. I'm not worried about future parts availability in the slightest. I'm fairly certain that there are laws on the books that REQUIRE manufacturers to make parts available for a minimum of 15 years after they stop building a machine. Deere still builds the majority of the wear parts found in the 4020, nearly 25 years after it went out of production. And there will always be that other source of parts - salvage yards. Most people think that electronics are pretty new on the tractor scene. Deere was using electronic sensors and instrument clusters on the 50-series, which have been around for 20 years. They give us few electronic problems. Anybody that doesn't wish to use electronic tractors is more than welcome to keep running old completely-mechanical ones. They're certainly nowhere near trouble-free, and are much closer to parts obsolescence than anything being built today. I work on everything from two-cylinders up to and including the 8000 Twenty Series, and there isn't a model in the bunch that doesn't have it's own unique challenges. I've been told by customers that now have nothing but 8000s for their big field tractors, that they can't imagine ever going back to, or how they enjoyed running 4640s and the like. To each his own.

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