Turbocharging new L3940 Gutless Pig Tractor

[LD1]

I dont think it matters what forum you post it in, the advise will be the same.

Well I take that back. Instead of advise telling you to trade up to kubota model XXXX, it will be advise telling you to trade up to deere model XXXX

 

[PHILIP8N]

OK ok ok I can screw with the best of you as you screw with MY thread.

Thanks, Fred

Actually, I am disappointed in you. 'Maybe I should post this in the Deere fourm'. Is that really the best you can do?

You have been given excellent advise here, just not enough matter between your ears to absorb it.

Good luck, Philip.

 

[TripleR]

Maybe I should post this in the Deere forum.

Why not, the wrong size tractor is still the wrong size tractor whether it's green, red, blue, orange etc. We own Kubota, John Deere, Massey Ferguson, Case, Kioti...

 

[kuboman]

Maybe I should post this in the Deere forum.

I think you just pissed on your credibility. Its time we all quite wasting our time on this thread.:talktothehand:

 

[Grandad4]

Fred,
Has anyone told you when the tractor bogs, you back off the HST pedal instead of flooring it? I scanned this thread and didn't see it mentioned... maybe I missed it. Your problem sounds exactly like an operator who is using the pedal just like the throttle/accelerator pedal in a car or truck. It's not like that... it's a variable speed transmission... the more you push the pedal, the taller the gear ratio so you get more speed with the same engine rpms, but less pulling power. An L3940 has plenty enough power so you run out of traction long before the engine bogs, but you gotta know how that HST works to use it. By the way, Deere and other brands with HST are also like that.

 

[TripleR]

I think you just pissed on your credibility. Its time we all quite wasting our time on this thread.:talktothehand:

Yep, pretty much.

 

[k0ua]

Well everyone else has "weighed in", I guess I will. We think nothing of asking manufactures to put 300-400 horsepower engines in our pickup trucks, so that we may pull heavy loads up hills at fast speeds, yet when we buy a tractor with less than 40 horsepower to the wheels we complain when it cannot pull an 8 foot landplane heavily loaded with dirt/gravel up a steep hill? Why is the 3940 a "gutless pig"?.. You have simply sized the tractor and the implement and the terrain wrong. There is nothing wrong with the tractor that a smaller implement would not fix. Going out and attempting to modify a new tractor with a turbo seems seems like the hard way to solve an easy to solve problem. Why not downsize the landplane? You and perhaps the implement dealer made a mistake, it is not going to be that hard to fix it. But if you want to be hardheaded about it, do as you will, it is your tractor, your implement, your property. But I would suggest that thousands of L3940hst owners do not think of their tractors as "gutless pigs", and have sense enough to size implements and tractors and terrain to make for happy experience. There is my 2 cents.

James K0UA

 

[Bluegill2]

I think you just pissed on your credibility. Its time we all quite wasting our time on this thread.:talktothehand:

Yep!

Fred,
Has anyone told you when the tractor bogs, you back off the HST pedal instead of flooring it? I scanned this thread and didn't see it mentioned... maybe I missed it. Your problem sounds exactly like an operator who is using the pedal just like the throttle/accelerator pedal in a car or truck. It's not like that... it's a variable speed transmission... the more you push the pedal, the taller the gear ratio so you get more speed with the same engine rpms, but less pulling power. An L3940 has plenty enough power so you run out of traction long before the engine bogs, but you gotta know how that HST works to use it. By the way, Deere and other brands with HST are also like that.

Grandad my man, I think you just nailed it! Operator error...My L3800 would pull that thing up hill no problem.

 

[LD1]

I think you just pissed on your credibility. Its time we all quite wasting our time on this thread.:talktothehand:

Yep, pretty much.

Ditto. Count me out:thumbsup:

 

[94BULLITT]

The thing I don't believe about this is he running out of power before he runs out of traction.