Vista still earning it's keep

F-MM

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Since the postings are a little slow here lately, here's a picture for those that like to see the old MMs still out working. This one is a 1968 Vista we bought new that year, it has never left our farm. I was age 22 at that time.
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I was always impartial to the regular G1000s. Never thought much about the G1000 Vistas....until I sat on one. Then I thought different as the view from "up there" is spectacular.
 
Really good to see it working!

How many hours do you have on it?? Have you had to do any major surgery on it??


Howard
 
Yeah I they were a parade tractor in its day and still are they had a nice step to get on them and like you said sit nice and high, i really hope someday I can find my dads old one back, if not I will buy one like it with the factory cab. For now I gotta finish on my g1355
 
Yes, we overhauled this one after about 5,000 hours & a dealer bored it to 60 over but when we got it home it would knock as soon as you worked it. The dealer blamed it on the boring so he insisted on putting it back to standard blocks so that's what is still on it. The tack was once replaced and a couple of broken cables over the years so I bet by now it probably has 7,000 or more hours. We gave it a new radiator core 2 years ago. The tranny cover has never been off and the torque has never slipped. It used to pull 6-16s plow/packer in 3rd low in our toughest clay & 24 ft JD C21 with heavy harrow in 2nd high. I had lugged that engine right down to an idle and it would climb right back to full rpms when you'd get through the tough spot. We kept those bored blocks and later put them on another Vista and it did the same thing, knock, so we opened it up and saw that one piston was higher than the block, we had it shaved down and that took care of that and those blocks & pistons are still on that other Vista today.
 

Seems like it is really easy to find machine shops that don't know what they are doing!!

I had a turboed HD800 irrigation engine one time freshly overhauled from a shop I didn't normally use.

Set it on the well - fired it up - let it warm up good for 10 minutes or so - and then brought it up to full load. It got water to the top of the ground and about the time I thought everything was good and about to leave - it started pulling down and then stopped with a weird squeak!

And was locked down tighter than a wedge.

Came back a little later to see if I could figure out what was wrong - and it spin over! And fired up fine. But then did the same thing again...

Anyway, long story short - the dang machine shop had bored the cylinders just a little too tight - and as the pistons got good and hot, it would seize completely up.

Howard
 
Howard, I had about the same thing happen with a 51 UTU,LP tractor. Had a shop bore it to 4&3/8th for alum. pistons that went to the shop with the blocks. That tractor would 'swell' up one or two times every spring on the first day in the field. Let it set for 5 min , start it up and go on like nothing happened. It never used any oil for the next 6 yrs. that I had it. clint
 

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