Recent content by fiddlindave

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    PTO problem?

    My L3700 has trouble with the pto cable. It usually takes 2 tries to get the pto to disengage. How do I adjust this cable? What is the correct lubricant?
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    Buy loader or bigger tractor?

    If you want to do much loader work, you need HST and 4WD. I'd vote for another tractor.
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    L2800HST - What do you think?

    That package is a fair price, and Hook's offer is even better. I looked around for a few months, and couldn't find a great deal, so I bought a new L3700SU with FEL for around $18,000. I found 20 tractors like yours, a few years old, a few hundred hours, for 15-16K, then just decided to get the...
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    3240 50-hour service

    I agree completely with Bulldog. The extra time and money you spent at 50 hours will pay you back over the life of the machine. You will get longer life from all these components. There is a lot of metal in that oil. Do you want it moving all through your tractor for hundreds of more hard...
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    3240 50-hour service

    50-hour service requires new oil! I disagree with everyone who just changes filters at 50 hours. That new oil has a lot of metal in it! The owners manual on my new L3700SU does not specify changing the hydraulic oil until 400 hours, only the filters like Happyman did. Do you really want all...