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today in Welshpool Smithfield I was talking to a guy whose brother fixes tractor engines at weekends and he told me that I should never fit Agriline parts because they are absolute rubbish
So I think any generalisations are probably wrong - all of the parts companies have good bits and bad bits, it seems.
Who is the best then?
Having a job getting a good quality rocker gasket,got genuine case gasket ,made in india! And it still leaks oil.for David Brown 996.If that were consistently true I reckon they'd have been out of business long ago.
I have heard something different, that Agriline keep a fairly tight control on quality and any parts that fail are sold separately as part of their 'seconds' business - but how true that is I don't know.
What I do know is that I ordered a rocker cover from DATS (England) which arrived, very nicely made, but with NO BREATHER whatsoever! I then ordered one from John Conarty instead, which did have the breather, but was too high (as in, the retaining nuts couldn't be fitted as the studs didn't poke out of the top). So I still have the leaky original on at the moment. And as detailed on my 35X thread, I ordered some hose clips from Old20 all of which except two didn't fit the hoses they supplied.
So I think any generalisations are probably wrong - all of the parts companies have good bits and bad bits, it seems.
Then, it should be sold as a "may fit" with a price to matchAgriline are generally okay fir bits & bobs & I wouldn't bet against most of the stuff coming from the same factories that other suppliers use anyway. The problem with tinwork in particular is that unless you have the drawings for the original press tooling (or tooling itself) then the chances of getting a close to perfect replica is virtually nill.
Whilst I agree with you to a degree but if you're going to the trouble of taking it all apart and doing the job properly then makes sense to pay a little more and put some better quality components back in??I put an agriline piston and liner kit in our fordson Major, it's been fine.
The gaskets weren't the greatest but it does the job for cheaps.
Whilst I agree with you to a degree but if you're going to the trouble of taking it all apart and doing the job properly then makes sense to pay a little more and put some better quality components back in??
Yes but your a mechanical genius @TripleSix your six hours would have probably taken me six weeks!!If it had been something more modern or valuable then yes.
But for a £900 tractor that does about 10 hours a year I don't see the need.
Whole job only took about 6 hours too.