Bought a 1610 from RCO

[houstonscott]

Just bought a 1610 from RCO in Austin. The unit is a complete rebuild here in USA. Garden duties like rototilling and finish mowing and fence repairs are what's in store for this guy. On 55 acres in Gatesville Tx. Take delivery at end of April. Pictures when it arrives.

HS

 

[California]

... from RCO in Austin. ... complete rebuild here in USA. ... delivery at end of April.

Will they let you go up there and watch the rebuild?

 

[houstonscott]

You get a shop record of #hours on tractor when received from Japan. You get a list of items checked, and parts used in rebuild. You get a copy dyno test done after rebuild. You get a one year warranty. You get to look it over with a fine tooth comb before you buy. I'm good with that, looked like a good rebuild to me, they replace all the parts I would have had I rebuilt it myself. This one got new liners, pistons, rings, head gasket, water pump, radiator, hoses, connecting rod bearings, voltage reg., exhaust manifold, muffler, head got cleaning and valve job. All new electrical wiring, shall I continue...Not much more I would have done had I ordered the job done myself. Looks like the whole unit was blasted, primed and painted with modern paints. It maybe a better tractor then when it was built, with new synthitic oils, better coolants in it, and better paints then 1981 when it was manufactured the second thirty years maybe better on it. Allot has happened in thirty years.

HS

 

[rmully]

. This one got new liners, pistons, rings, head gasket, water pump, radiator, hoses, connecting rod bearings, voltage reg., head got cleaning and valve job. All new electrical wiring, shall I continue...

HS

Seems like a lot of rebuild to me but you know you should be good for a long while.

Enjoy it !!

 

[kenmac]

He may be correct about the rebuild. I called Fredricks about trading my yanmar for a larger mahindra. He told me that he would have to take my 3110D apart to install new pistons, liners,Install new radiator, etc,etc, to make it a new UTDA certified tractor B-4 he would sell it. I wonder if all UTDA dealers perform this type of rebuild B-4 they sell or re-sell ? He told me I would be better off to sell the tractor myself

 

[houstonscott]

The main reason or thinking behind this purchase was we had need to rototill a garden and mow a lawn around a house that sits on 55 acres. The mowing might even extend to the sides of the road maybe 2-3 hundred yards. This would be finish mowing and would at time be done by the wife. So a riding mower (diesel) like a JD 740 is 12K with no implements! North of that with a rototiller and things like a posthole digger. In comes the rebuilt 1610, the transmission allows wife to mow, got the tractor, a new rototiller, finish mower, and posthole digger, for about half of what a JD 740 would cost. In the end I think we ended up a much more capable machine.

HS

 

[kenmac]

liners in a 1610 engine???

 

[houstonscott]

They are wet sleeves.

HS

 

[clemsonfor]

Hope all is well. Im not sure if your the one who asked in another post about RCO or not. But MAKE sure you check it out well. CAR DOC a member got one of the rebilds from RCO and found that his head, while may have been "off" had not had the valves ground the head was warped and he could tell other "Performed" tasks were not done. He himself is a mechanic so he can tell if something had been rebuilt, ground or replaced. I think this is what California was getting at, by can you make sure that is all done. Cause chances are the tractor off the container from JAPAN would probably run several hundred more hours to thousands of hours no problem.

Car doc was out of the warrenty period before that gets brought up again, but the point is things were said to have been done which to the experienced person clearly were not. Hopefully these bad apples have been removed from RCO and the mgt has figured out how to properly fullfill what they say.

Your tractor will probably be fine for yrs and yrs. Just think how many are out there straight out of the container and been going strong.

 

[houstonscott]

I think that post was from a few years ago maybe as much as five or more. I think RCO was scammed by rebuilds from Vietnam too. This guy got one of those. That's well know now and avoided. The process to get these tractors from Japan and deliver them to their shops is a much better process now and RCO has their own guy in Japan picking the units out. At least this is what they tell me. I understand there are stories about the Vietnam rebuilds and they still exist out in the market so be careful who you buy from, even RCO was careless in the distant pass and got some bad PR by selling some these. I think those days are gone for RCO.

HS