New 1626 HST Owner, Any Others?

[skibberman]

Hi new owner here as well and love it minus some small stuff i previous posted in a forum. I painted dipstick with wifes nail polish to help.

 

[JerryK]

On my 1526 and 2555, I painted the handle of the dipsticks Cat yellow. Helps you find the durn thing. Kind of hard with a black engine and black dipstick, usually in a semi-dark area of my barn with real old eyes. The dipstick tubes are sometimes not pointed in a direction that it is easy to pull the stick out. You have to remember that the engines are put into a lot of tractors, and they just point in a generic direction that may be not a good thing on your particular tractor with your particular options like a FEL. You can bend the tubes a little to change this direction to make the stick removal/insertions a better process. Just make sure you radius it thru it's full length and just not kink it where it comes out of the block. I did mine, not hard to do with just your fingers. The factory or dealer does not assign a guy to do it for you before delivery, not saying they shouldn't during dealer prep.

 

[rushipa]

New and first time tractor owner - Mahindra 1626 shuttle with backhoe (factory installed)... Box blade and post hole digger... 7 hours in... First project is an extensive backhoe operation to prepare a planting bed (gopher proof with hardware cloth)... so far so good... heard some creaking noises when moving backhoe side to side... planning to grease up everything tomorrow and see if it repeats..