JD 110 TLB Hydraulic Help

[kennyd]

WOW, what a sad story!

I would be nice if you can post the pictures here in this thread, there are a lot of 110TLB owners here, as well a good freind of mine owning one that I get to use when needed.

I understand this was a private sale, but I think I'd be knocking on his door to have a talk

 

[Zebrafive]

Sorry for your loss.

Was this a rental machine or multiple owner machine?

I can see where you are in no way slamming Deere, just the poor, most likely cobbled non dealer fixes.

I too await pictures of the cause of the failures.

One resently sold at auction for just short of $17K. It still had rental company stickers on it, so I looked no further and did not bid.

 

[CurlyDave]

I, too, would like to see the pictures.

 

[Stonehaller]

Sounds like seller lied to you . Very difficult to do anything about in a private sale unless the seller has a conscience. I would sure contact the seller.

Although you may recoup some of your cost through parting out the tractor, that can take a while and you are stuck without a working tractor.

I was looking hard for a used JD110 a while back. The tractor was popular with small contractors and there were quite a few used ones available when the economy tanked. I looked at a lot of them within a 600 mile radius, but everyone in my price range I could tell had seen hard use without proper care and maintenance. It saddened me to see such abuse to a costly investment. I ended up finding a Kubota L39 in good shape that I have been happy with.

 

[JoelD]

I would not give up on the machine.
Take an inventory of what is up, what is mission critical, and post, I bet there are more than one on this forum who can propose fixes to keep you running.

Might be a matter of some welds, some tapping, etc.

I would not give up yet.

Maybe some elbow grease can buy you some operator time.

Joel

 

[DIGnVT]

Update:
My JD 110 TLB is back up and running. After the dealer quoted a repair cost of $16,000 I thought for sure that I would have to scrap it. After getting it home, and spending about two weeks thinking about, I decided I couldn't make it any worse and decided to try to fix it myself.

Ironically, one of the reasons I bought the thing was to prep an area for a garage, so as you will see in the pictures I did all the work outside in my yard. By the way, not a lot of fun in Vermont in the winter.

The basics of the problem was that the prior owner(s) not only did not take good care of this machine, they took steps to hide damage. For example, they cut the heads off bolts and epoxied them to holes to make it look like they were properly installed. Every hole in the the oil pan extension was stripped. Because the front of the tractor bolts to the oil pan extension, it was out of alignment which caused the pump coupling to break which resulted in the hydraulics quitting. Where the loader arms attach on the left side the holes in the bell housing were stripped out and the holes in the transmission were broken (cast). On the right side two of the holes were stripped and one hole had a broken bolt still in it.

For the repair, I split the tractor and pulled the engine. Changed the oil pan extension, at $475.00 the most expensive part. I did not consider fixing the stripped holes in the extension given the total number of holes and the critical nature of how everything is tied into it.

I used M16x2.0 24mm timeserts to repair the holes in the bell housing. I used 38mm long timeserts in the transmission case so that I would have deeper bite into the transmission case. I made sure that I was not going so deep as to be into the inner part of the transmission. I then purchased over length bolts. Getting the broken bolt out on the right side was a PITA, but after about 2 hours I was good to go.

While doing the work I found a lot of loose bolts and missing hardware. I replaced any bolts that had any signs of wear, stretching, or damaged in any way.

Reassembled and it fired right up. My wife stood there looking puzzled. She didn't understand why it sounded different. I told her it was because it wasn't rattling anymore.

Total cost of repairs: just under $1100.00 with about 45 hours of time. I will be posting pics in just a few minutes.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/photos/member.php?uid=105416&protype=1

 

[kennyd]

WOW, thanks for the update! Nice job:thumbsup:

 

[GreatWhitehunter]

With the obvious intent to hide the damage, I'd be at the sellers house and then my lawyers. I can understand as is but this is a whole new dimension of low. Your pics give new meaning to buyer beware. I could live with not properly repairing the unit but epoxying the bolts is just deceptive and evil.

Matt

 

[wdchyd]

Good going DIGnVT,

Sometimes you gotta take the bull by the horns full steam......unfortunately you were on the wrong side of the money making......Sad but a reality that catches up to us unsuspectingly......

Glad you are able and willing to tackle your problems (passed on to you by others).....

A good saying I like is......"You can eat an elephant, but only one bite at a time"

I have a friend that bought an old MF tractor and he's had nothing but problems (Not MF's fault also).....unfortunately he's spent more time under the seat than on the seat.........

 

[Greg9504]

Nice job on the repair!

If I were you I would put all those epoxied bolts in a bag, head over to the guy who sold it to you and hand them to him. Telling him he fooled no one, and karma has a way of working things out... but suing him also works