Problems with Tisco parts...

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:
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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
 
Big question is this. Some place on the box they are in will say where they are made and I bet you will find they come form the land of almost right
 
I got main bearings for a Buda last year with the same damage. Not from Tisco. Labeled "Advantage Engine parts" but were from Federal-Mogul. I called the supplier to get them replaced and he said they had a bunch of them lately. You can see how they were packaged. They sent me a new set and the center thrust shells had no oil hole. The way ;manufacturing is source these days I think that can happen anywhere.
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I'm with vtjoe. I'd use them. There some older cat
and Cummins applications where you had to drill the
oil passage holes in them. Allowed for them to sell
the set for more applications. I have a 1951 855
cummins operators manual that shows this and ive
done it in a cat. In 1951 they had a different attitude
about what was expected of an operator. A complete
overhaul was part of the job description back then.
 
Last couple motors I have put together the bearings all
looked like that. Federal mogul, sealed power and trw. Some
were shrink wrapped, some were boxed like in the above pic.
Used them and never had a problem.
 

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