The one I changed had a plastic front cover, and it had a crack about an inch long leading out from the insert that the oil pressure relief valve cap screwed into. The new covers are all aluminum, which tells me that Deere realized that the plastic covers were junk. Unfortunately it was too late to save my customer from having a problem.
Talking about Loctite, the last person to work on this machine had used either red or green Loctite on every fastener I had to take loose. The castle nut on the bottom of the belt tensioner was on so tight that the whole bolt/stud assembly backed out together. I tried to take it loose but it rounded the head off and never moved. I wound up having to clamp it in a vice, heat it, and then use a long handled 1/2 drive ratchet to ever pop it loose. The nuts holding the fan on had been tightened and rounded off. Between the fact that the only thing you could put on the rounded nuts was an open ended wrench, and the fact they had Loctite on them, I wound up having to split them, and then still had a time getting them off. I think they actually used the green retaining compound given how tight everything was.
An idea how big of a PITA it was....it too me nearly 8 hours to get it apart, but only 4 to put it all back together.
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