TylerScott
New User
Just a warning to you guys buying Tisco parts. I recently bought an engine kit for my father's '77 Ford 6600 utility tractor. One piston was marked wrong (it was marked as .030" over, but measured out to be standard). It took 3 weeks for Tisco to sort things out and send the right one. My guess is that the wrong piston had been sitting on a shelf lonesome and forgotten because it was marked wrong, but made it into my kit because it was short a piston.
A few days after receiving the right piston I opened up the boxes containing the connecting rods and encountered this:
Most of the connecting rod bearings had this damage. The damage was caused during shipping, and was the result of the bearings striking each other. There was no protective cardboard or paper separating the bearing halves. The main bearings were vacuum sealed in plastic and were fine.
I have nothing but praise for the dealer I bought the kit from (Metro New Holland in North Plains, Oregon). The parts guys have jumped right on the problems and have a deep knowledge of the tractors and good sources for parts. Tisco needs to do some work on their end. I have $4000 wrapped up in this rebuild...if I had not caught this the bearings would have failed due to restricted oil flow. They probably would have taken out the crank, too. I thought about knocking the high spots down with crocus cloth but remembered the $4000 mentioned above. I don't want to pay that twice!
My purpose isn't to run down Tisco; I did eventually receive the correct piston and have no doubt I will receive replacement bearings. However these kinds of problems are easily preventable. The lesson for customers to learn here is to inspect all parts and do the measurements you need to do to ensure the parts are in fact the right ones and in good order.
Unfortunately this problem has put me about 2 weeks behind. :x
A few days after receiving the right piston I opened up the boxes containing the connecting rods and encountered this:
Most of the connecting rod bearings had this damage. The damage was caused during shipping, and was the result of the bearings striking each other. There was no protective cardboard or paper separating the bearing halves. The main bearings were vacuum sealed in plastic and were fine.
I have nothing but praise for the dealer I bought the kit from (Metro New Holland in North Plains, Oregon). The parts guys have jumped right on the problems and have a deep knowledge of the tractors and good sources for parts. Tisco needs to do some work on their end. I have $4000 wrapped up in this rebuild...if I had not caught this the bearings would have failed due to restricted oil flow. They probably would have taken out the crank, too. I thought about knocking the high spots down with crocus cloth but remembered the $4000 mentioned above. I don't want to pay that twice!
My purpose isn't to run down Tisco; I did eventually receive the correct piston and have no doubt I will receive replacement bearings. However these kinds of problems are easily preventable. The lesson for customers to learn here is to inspect all parts and do the measurements you need to do to ensure the parts are in fact the right ones and in good order.
Unfortunately this problem has put me about 2 weeks behind. :x