Damper

[TomDafis]

I'm a dairy Farmer. I understand very little & have very little interest in machinery. My tractor (MF 6485 dynashift) is sat in a workshop ......the damper has gone. I understand what it is. Why would this go on a 3000 hours tractor?
Could it be that it has been doing a lot of very heavy towing latley. Or any kind of mis use.
I'm fustrated with my machinery repair bills.

 

[Rob Holmes]

Snap! My 6480 did same on Monday, turns out its drive shaft not damper

 

[essexpete]

I'm a dairy Farmer. I understand very little & have very little interest in machinery. My tractor (MF 6485 dynashift) is sat in a workshop ......the damper has gone. I understand what it is. Why would this go on a 3000 hours tractor?
Could it be that it has been doing a lot of very heavy towing latley. Or any kind of mis use.
I'm fustrated with my machinery repair bills.

I don't know anything about the MF but unless there was a fault with the original part then the use must have something to do with the failure. I would guess continual sudden shock loads would have more of a bearing than a heavy load per se.

 

[davidroberts30]

Snap! My 6480 did same on Monday, turns out its drive shaft not damper

I don't know anything about the MF but unless there was a fault with the original part then the use must have something to do with the failure. I would guess continual sudden shock loads would have more of a bearing than a heavy load per se.

it is quite known for the D6 to break that input shaft

 

[Bullring]

Mine done the damper plate and shaft at just over 3000 hrs, turns out the new parts are uprated so guess they had a problem with them.

 

[Rob Holmes]

Just had a price, less than £400 for parts!

 

[Farma Parma]

Its a bit like oh you havnt got a clutch anymore so that wont need to me replaced...
Lets design something else in the setup thats a weak link so farmers have to buy parts & labour bills to repair this.
if your ever splitting your tractor & if its done only 3000 hrs just replace it
Its a wearing part some last for 10000hrs some dont.

 

[Bullring]

Just had a price, less than £400 for parts!

That's not bad, the parts for mine were £2000 and the labour about the same. Was the last time it will ever visit the main stealers again, have now use an agco trained mechanic who has gone on his own.

 

[Chae1]

Damper plate failed on our t3 6480 too. Lost all drive and hydraulics. Was never the same after, developed a loud whining noise from backend on over run.

It also used to sometimes randomly lose drive. Did this before and after damper plate done. No error codes or anything.

Feel sorry for Massey owners on here at moment. Most threads seem to be about problems with them, and people criticising them. They aren't that bad.

 

[J 1177]

Snap! My 6480 did same on Monday, turns out its drive shaft not damper

Any signs before it went or just suddenly?

 

[Rob Holmes]

Not really, i did think it felt a bit sluggish, but it just went without warning
(in the middle of a country road with a load of wheat on the back!)

 

[J 1177]

Not really, i did think it felt a bit sluggish, but it just went without warning
(in the middle of a country road with a load of wheat on the back!)

Oh something to look forward to then [emoji19]

 

[balerman]

Buy a Deere instead,if they have damper plates it will be much easier to replace cos of the open shaft in the middle,most other makes suffer the same as MF,done 2 NH ones at around 3000hrs.

 

[njneer]

Buy a Deere instead,if they have damper plates it will be much easier to replace cos of the open shaft in the middle,most other makes suffer the same as MF,done 2 NH ones at around 3000hrs.

Except when the shaft goes it wipes out the front of the gearbox casing££££

 

[Chae1]

Must have been lucky with our other tractors. Our t3 6480 is only tractor we've had damper go on.

 

[njneer]

Tell tale for damper plates is when you turn tractor off and the engine rebounds on the compression as it stops you can hear them " clunk clunk" as the engine stops.

 

[J 1177]

Tell tale for damper plates is when you turn tractor off and the engine rebounds on the compression as it stops you can hear them " clunk clunk" as the engine stops.

Metallic sound is that right?

 

[njneer]

Metallic sound is that right?

Yes you can almost hear the springs rattling about.

 

[essexpete]

Do these damper plates change in build across a given range of tractors? I notice with our old Ford that the same part was fitted to several different models.

 

[J 1177]

Yes you can almost hear the springs rattling about.

Il keep an ear out on mine. For now it seems fine. Touch wood. I think it may have been apart before as the propshaft uj was barely on the splines where u split the tractor (as if it hadn't been put back on properly)