Belarus Tractors

[jesnic]

Sounds like the decompression lever. Small, short and pull it up to engage decompression, hit starter for a few seconds, then push lever down and compression begins (start engine). The gearshift lever closet to the steering wheel is forward/reverse. The next gear shifter is 8 speed trans, high/low, creeper. The furthest lever tot he right is the aux. hydraulics, the next to the left is the 3 pt lift. Diff lock on the floor with foot.

 

[sandybay]

it activates the ejection seat

That explains why I keep falling of the tractor! lol

 

[sandybay]

Sounds like the decompression lever. Small, short and pull it up to engage decompression, hit starter for a few seconds, then push lever down and compression begins (start engine). The gearshift lever closet to the steering wheel is forward/reverse. The next gear shifter is 8 speed trans, high/low, creeper. The furthest lever tot he right is the aux. hydraulics, the next to the left is the 3 pt lift. Diff lock on the floor with foot.

That is what I was thinking thanks.:thumbsup:

 

[Dargo]

... he finally parked it in a barn, got tired of it being in the way, couldn't give it away. That's been a number of years ago, and it is now sitting in the back of the pasture frozen. What a deal. Wonder if Yugo will make a tractor. LOLOLOL

That is the typical history of a Belarus; sitting in fields, where they quit, rusting away. They are the Yugo of tractors. No way I'd give $43.00 for it! Can't think of any worse made tractor.

 

[Bison]

My god i cant believe this many people could like these things ,
" Run away from it"
Regardless of what people say on this forum it is THE worst quality tractor available nothing more reliable has ever been built , Just check out any other forum or even compare prices to real tractors of same age , I know dealers yards full of these things that have sat there for 4 years , Ask a farmer if he would buy one ?

BS,i own a belarus 800 for over 20 years,i must have put 15000 largely trouble free hrs on it,i reringed the engine once.I still use it almost daily,it fires up in a split sec every time.:thumbsup:

The problem is a lack of knowledge on these tractors,even the dealers know dick all.

 

[Mark @ Everlast]

I agree. They were the world's largest manufacturer...They have some of the toughest diesel engines ever built, with typical engine life well over 10k hours before rebuild. I know of some that are in excess of 35 years old purring away with that low knock they had with the old 500's. They are quite popular still in Europe and have been sold in many countries. Parts are readily available. There were some soft bolts, some leaks in hydraulics because they were all external, and some electrical issues, but the basic units were solid.

 

[ArtMech]

Belarus was and still is the main tractor supplier to the USSR/Russia (with no any other competitor), that's why it is one of the largest world's tractor manufacturer.
Some Western Europe Belarus owners are selling out their used tractors to post communist countries. These tractors are supposed to be of better quality, than those Belarus sold in former USSR.

 

[Dargo]

BS,i own a belarus 800 for over 20 years,i must have put 15000 largely trouble free hrs on it,i reringed the engine once.I still use it almost daily,it fires up in a split sec every time.:thumbsup:

The problem is a lack of knowledge on these tractors,even the dealers know dick all.

I'd have to say that 99 out of 100 people who bought them will strongly disagree with you. The only place I see them now is sitting out in fields rusting away with trees growing up through them. They gave Yugo a good name!

 

[Bison]

I'd have to say that 99 out of 100 people who bought them will strongly disagree with you. The only place I see them now is sitting out in fields rusting away with trees growing up through them. They gave Yugo a good name!

That means only one person out of the 100 is smart enough to know how to fix it himself,the other 99 you can lump in with the dealers,LACK OF KNOWLEDGE

BTW,if what you say is true,then why is there hardly a belarus up for sale,i been looking for another one and can't find any.
So please tell me where they are sitting in the trees and i might go get them(depending on distance)

 

[Dargo]

That means only one person out of the 100 is smart enough to know how to fix it himself,the other 99 you can lump in with the dealers,LACK OF KNOWLEDGE

I will concede that I most certainly do not have any direct, first hand, experience with a Belarus tractor. I've only heard all the horror stories and seen them laying around in fields. So, I cannot say you are wrong. All I can say is that the statistics sure don't look good. And, sincerely, I'm glad you've gotten good use out of yours. I hate to see anyone get ripped off. There are more than enough out there willing to take your money and leave you with nothing.

 

[Bison]

Hearsay has a bad habbit of blowing thing out of proportion .

The biggest problem was that there where no service manuals made avalable by belarus and dealer support has been dismal cause they did not get to know anything either,all they had to rely on where parts manuals.
Ofcourse when one has bought a new tractor,one goes to the dealer to have it fixed.If the dealer happens to know dickall then things get hairy doesn't it.

Most people don't know how to fix their own equipment regardless of brand anyway.But if the dealers can't fix them then we really got problems.

That by itself don't make a belarus a bad tractor now,does it?

 

[Gregster613]

Interesting thread I think.
After I left the dairy farm for military service my Dad got himself a Balarus (He called it his Commie tractor). He used it extensively for cutting ROW's alongside of county roads that were out in the middle of nowheres! You name it and it could be found in the ditches! He worked/used it very hard as I recall; I don't remember the exact model but it was 2wd, air-cooled, and I believe diesel and yes it used but a mason jar of fuel for a full days worth of darn hard work!
I'd come home on leave and he'd fondly spin tales of strange things he'd done or experiences he'd had with his commie workhorse! I don't recall him having to repair much on it either. Electrics were one item and brakes were another that I recall. But, whatever he'd had to repair had had to be figured out or replaced by himself. No manual or dealer support. Just good ole yankee intuition. It didn't power compare at all to his old Minneapolis Molines, but it served him well for what he bought it for; and I believe he was quite fond of it. If I found one at a cheap price I'd take it on. A challenge at the least!

 

[boatyard]

I know of two Belarus tractors, one walking distance from here, sitting out on the edge of fields with trees starting to grow up through them. Folks around here do not leave anything that has any useful life left in it outside to rot unless it really is junk.

 

[Mark @ Everlast]

Hearsay has a bad habbit of blowing thing out of proportion .

The biggest problem was that there where no service manuals made avalable by belarus and dealer support has been dismal cause they did not get to know anything either,all they had to rely on where parts manuals.
Ofcourse when one has bought a new tractor,one goes to the dealer to have it fixed.If the dealer happens to know dickall then things get hairy doesn't it.

Most people don't know how to fix their own equipment regardless of brand anyway.But if the dealers can't fix them then we really got problems.

That by itself don't make a belarus a bad tractor now,does it?

That is not exactly correct. As a dealer growing up, we had plenty of service manuals and dealer support was excellent. (still have them) Techinicians American and Russian were available to dealers at a phone call. Extensive manuals, parts, and service were available. We had mutiple copies and frequently sold them to customers. Belarus conducted multi day service schools based on complete breakdown and repair of units at both Slidell and Milwaukee locations several times a year. Belarus would even fly service techs in to take a look at a serious or unresolvable issue. Several times they would overnight parts, even one day in a unit down emergency, they sent it overnight for Christmas day delivery. What I tended to see was that many dealers sold the tractors to make a quick buck. They did not make use of the resources available. Again, we had full technical manuals, based off of complete breakdown and repair...Full tech specs for almost any repair. One of the oldest "retired" dealers in the US dating back to the late 60's early 70's live near me. He has customers scattered throughout the woods still running, and still a parts room full of some of the most obscure parts. Another friend of mine has a dealership from the early 80's with a Cotton Gin warehouse full of parts. His office is stuffed full of all manners of repair manuals and operator's manuals.

 

[IH3444]

Quality and marketability usually dictates what brands survive here in the states.......Belarus, Fiat, MG, Renault, etc, etc.

 

[Bison]

That is not exactly correct. As a dealer growing up, we had plenty of service manuals and dealer support was excellent. (still have them) Techinicians American and Russian were available to dealers at a phone call. Extensive manuals, parts, and service were available. We had mutiple copies and frequently sold them to customers. Belarus conducted multi day service schools based on complete breakdown and repair of units at both Slidell and Milwaukee locations several times a year. Belarus would even fly service techs in to take a look at a serious or unresolvable issue. Several times they would overnight parts, even one day in a unit down emergency, they sent it overnight for Christmas day delivery. What I tended to see was that many dealers sold the tractors to make a quick buck. They did not make use of the resources available. Again, we had full technical manuals, based off of complete breakdown and repair...Full tech specs for almost any repair. One of the oldest "retired" dealers in the US dating back to the late 60's early 70's live near me. He has customers scattered throughout the woods still running, and still a parts room full of some of the most obscure parts. Another friend of mine has a dealership from the early 80's with a Cotton Gin warehouse full of parts. His office is stuffed full of all manners of repair manuals and operator's manuals.

Was maybe that way in the US,here in Canada it might have changed over the years somewhat,but here out west the dealers have largely disapeared,in my area there's only one left.
But all the ones i contacted when i needed something or needed to ask something didn't know a thing.
From the main dealer i managed to get only a parts manual but no service manual. They told me they did not exist.This was prob 6-7 yrs ago.
When i first got my belarus it had a blown head gasket.The PO said it was a yearly problem.
I ordered a new gasket but found it didn't fit correct,the fire ring was bigger than the liner collar. I phoned far and wide for answers incl head office till i finally found a field mech who said,you got the wrong one,order this nr...
The dealer promptly send me the same i had,claiming it was the correct one.
It took a lot of cussing to get them to send the right one.
They kept claiming there is only one model,its the one you got.
Even head office would not budge, so i got that field mech involved,only then i got the right gasket via his outfit.

I had other small issues but i solved them myself.Piss on the dealers

 

[Taylortractornut]

I have had some experience with the 250's and a larger 90 HP 4x4 one. Mostly working on some shop customer tractors. THe biggest things were torqueing the bolt to the propper specs and using the correct grade bolt. Plus setting the valves was a biggie. THe 250 I had trouble with the driveline shear pin was the pin had been run with a smaller pin in it and it had worn the bore out. We reamed the bores out and used a better pin. The elctrical got a Delco alternator. THe best thing to do wen they were first purchased was to flush the transmission and rearends with fuel and get all the shavings out. These tractors werent made b the happiest workers.

 

[coolice64]

i have a 1978 250 belarus tractor and only thing i replace is a starter and cluch i can chage a cluch in 5 hours from start to finsh i work my tractor in the woods and plowing and i would not have anything els in the winter time i use it for 3 things woods plowing and getting them **** MF and john deer running i would not take 2 of them for my belarus MF and john deer are junk and if it was not for my tractor they would not run untill mid summer and parts are easy to get little pricey and help is just a phone call away most times or help is here on the net there not a hard tractor to work on ( they say nothing runs like a deer what a joke ) so dont go by what some say just like everthing els in this world you find a lemon in everthing made just MF and JD make more lemon than tractors as you see most ppl are saying my friend or someone they know call them junk but they dont real know what there talking about go ask someone face to face who have one let them tell you and you see most like there belarus if you find one in good shape it was well look after buy it cluch and starter after 32years not bad not bad at all :thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[Bison]

i have a 1978 250 belarus tractor and only thing i replace is a starter and cluch i can chage a cluch in 5 hours from start to finsh i work my tractor in the woods and plowing and i would not have anything els in the winter time i use it for 3 things woods plowing and getting them **** MF and john deer running i would not take 2 of them for my belarus MF and john deer are junk and if it was not for my tractor they would not run untill mid summer and parts are easy to get little pricey and help is just a phone call away most times or help is here on the net there not a hard tractor to work on ( they say nothing runs like a deer what a joke ) so dont go by what some say just like everthing els in this world you find a lemon in everthing made just MF and JD make more lemon than tractors as you see most ppl are saying my friend or someone they know call them junk but they dont real know what there talking about go ask someone face to face who have one let them tell you and you see most like there belarus if you find one in good shape it was well look after buy it cluch and starter after 32years not bad not bad at all :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Ahh,good to see an other believer in Belarus :thumbsup:

 

[ArtMech]

Just curious. I've heard tens of thousands of Belarus tractors recently have been sold to Venezuela? Is there anybody to confirm that? If yes, what are the correct sales digits?