- Location
- Somerset
So you may remember I put something on here a while back about our 398 with it's 880 loader. Well, one of the 880s tip rams will not seal round the flange nut, keeps leaking even after some of the local agri engineer's "magic glue" and 2 or 3 times of fixing it... the loader is completely worn out, the pins are eating about half an inch into the thin bracket metal at the pivot pins, and the rest of it is all very worn as well. At this point, we are thinking a new loader is in order. Dad seems to reckon that the old brackets will not come off (even though i cant see much rust at all on the bolts, as they have been covered in flour and oil most of their life) and so we should get something that will fit the same brackets. So does anybody know of a list of loaders that will fit 880 brackets that would work well for a 398? I would ideally like something with self leveling and euro 8 to replace the 880, but that would probably require a bracket change. I'd like to fit a joystick as well if that isn't too dificult for me to do, preferably an electric joystick as they are much nicer to use than the cable ones. The tractor is more or less only used for it's loader, so a nicer loader + a joystick would be a welcome addition. Anybody have any ideas as to what a good replacement would be? There is an 820 on ebay at the moment that looks OK, but no self leveing on it...
