So, its been so long that I don't know what information I've posted on here. Anyway long story short, the drive line broke and hit the steering valve and the housing started leaking. So I pulled it out to check the housing to see where it was leaking. I found a couple of bolts lose, so I re-torqued them to see if that would fix the problem. Well here's the part where I screwed up, when I put it back in I reversed two of the hoses on the steering valve (Really pissed at myself, but that’s what happens when you’re doing it at 10pm.). There is a flow through circuit through the valve, and the one hose I swapped was the supply. The supply was now dead-headed so it was putting a load on the pump from the start, thus putting too much load on the motor to start up. This was the initial problem, so there was really nothing wrong with anything else. I couldn't get it to start, and not thinking that the hydraulics had anything to do with it I called the dealer to come get it.
So now the dealer has it, and I told them EVERYTHING (Yes including the valve.) that has happened and what I had checked (Mainly electrical.). They told me that they would check everything, which made me kind of mad because I didn't want to pay them to check something that I already checked. So they went to work on it, they had it over a month and a half test the electrical, and then the fuel systems. Also messing with the injector timing a lot. According to the first service manager (The one that was fired.) he told me a couple times that they had it running a little bit, and thought they were getting close to having it running again. The first time I saw it in their shop, they had the cover plate off the injector pump. Oh yeah, the radiator and hydraulic cooler were off the tractor too. So they probably were running it a little with this hardware off the tractor. I have no doubt in my mind that this is where the motor damage happened. I had never over heated the tractor, and now the head is warped.. Rings are all stuck, and the valves are jacked up.
So they get the motor back together and get it running, and at this point they haven't figured out the hoses are on there wrong. So they run it for a while, find that the steering is not working right. So this is when they find they hoses are on there wrong. They fix this and the steering works fine, but now the hydraulic lines are getting hot. So they then find a bunch of brass in the filter screen, which indicates the pump is jacked up. They rebuild the pump, and supposedly everything is working/running fine. I must note, that I am going off what they have told me. So, what happened behind the seen I do not know. Or what lies I have been told. Remember first they said I dump gas in it.
I fully admit the I missed up on those hoses, but they instant on re-checked my electrical testing. Why didn't they re-check my work on the valve? They are "Factory trained" Deere techs., and they charge $95hr for their work. Any damage that happens behind their doors, they should be responsible for correct?
