7610 tractor

Just wondering how well the turbo four banger holds up.There is one for sale near me.Looks like it would be a handy utility tractor.I've had a few 4000 Fords with 3 cylinder diesels and had good luck with them.Right now I pull a 10 foot Deere discbine with a IH656D and its a good load on the tractor in heavy hay.Just wondering how that 7610 would do in those conditions.I realize the Ford will have about 20 more hp than my 656.Just wondering about the possibility of overheating issues with the 7610.Thank's
 
Overheating will likely be your biggest complaint with this model. The radiator needs to be fairly clean to sustain full power loads for any length of time.
 
The backbone of my entire hay business....

7610 2wd c/h/a pulling a NH 644 round baler
7610 4wd c/h/a pulling a NH 1411 discbine
7610 orchard model on a NH tedder

the newer configuration NH TB 110, and the older configuration Ford 7600 x2

Highest hours are on one of the 7600, meter quit at 3304 after it rolled over once (so 13,3304 hrs). The other one has 10654 on it. It runs around 400 hours a year pulling a 15 foot Bush Hog. The older one with the higher hours pulls the square baler.

As to durability. The 2wd 7610 had a NH long block repower at 5400 hrs due to a dynamic balancer failure, its also had a clutch replacement at 5100 hrs and both hydraulic pumps replaced at 5675 hrs. The 7610 orchard had an in house repower with sleeves due to cavatation at 3400 hrs.

To date, no injection pump failures on any of these though I have put 2 pumps on my 5600 (with right at 5000 hrs). They are reliable tractors, logically assembled, reasonable parts with great after market selection. Worst thing I've found, as stated elsewhere, is cooling system capacity. At full load (11 foot disc mower, with full roller compression, in first cutting hay (timothy and orchard grass yielding 7 plus 4x5 rolls per acre with a ground speed of 8-10 mph), 2 row silage chopper, or 9 shank chisel plow) we normally clean radiators daily to twice a day.

Easy on fuel, especially compared with 6 cylinder tractors I've had of similar horsepower. Just from observation about a 25 percent savings but they use more fuel than the 4 cylinder Case tractors of David Brown ancestry.
 
They're a good solid tractor as others have said... Personally I don't care a lot for the straddle chassis unless they're open station. Cabs and loaders make them miserable to work on.
Overheating can be an issue with them. Need to keep the rads clean. They're usually not too bad unless you get a lot of the bloom coming off the hay... that gets in there and plugs them up quick. Aside from that I might clean mine a couple times a year. The other thing to be aware of is that the 268T engine can be turned up A LOT. 20% is well within it's range of survival if you mind the temperature and don't bake it. Just beware that the 20% (or more) can strain a lot of other things depending on how it was used...
I would dare say that kyhayman has his smoked up pretty good too if it's running an 11' discbine at 10 mph... so little wonder it's getting hot.
For what it's worth, my 7710 is now at 8500 hours and the engine is original save it's now third head gasket and one turbo and probably 2-3 water pumps now... and it's turned to over 100 hp since quite some time and shown little mercy. I don't expect it to see much more than 10k hours but so far, so good...

Rod
 
104 dyno on that one.... :). 96 dyno on the baling tractor..... When I put the engine in the orchard model (I bought it used, untouched by me but it had been touched a lot by someone else) pistons had aluminum displacement where the injector spray was.... I turned the pump down 4.5 turns to get it to 92.... :/ so she was a tad bit too hot.....
 
4.5 turns... OUCH. And it's still got a turn over stock no doubt. I've always figured mine is about 103 with 1.25 turns on the screw (I measured rack displacement to arrive at that figure) but it may actually make more power than that. I know it burns fuel enough to make more power... and still no marks on the pistons. For an 8500 hour engine it looks remarkably good aside from having it's third gasket now.
Last spring I had the old girl drinking 7 gal/hour dragging a 16' Salford RTS 1100, wide open in 6 low... That should average out to 108 based on Nebraska numbers for efficiency.. but to average that it would need to peak at somewhat more...

Rod
 

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