175 tracked loader

[Fishfiles]

I have got to spend a lot of time under the cab of a 175 and it is a real piece of chit , if you have any thoughts of buying one I would suggest you stay away from this machine , at 1053 hours and right out of warranty the travel motor locked up on one side , opened the plantary and all gears and bearings were fine , removed the assembly from the machine and opened it up and the brake pack was fine , the rotator group of the hydraulic motor is fried and found bronze chunkes of metal in it , the sunstrand disenergrated and sent metal through out the system , 50 hours past the warranty and the machine is trashed , $4,800 for a new travel motor , don't have any prices on the sunstrand yet , the other drive is got to be full of metal also , New Holland doesn't sell parts for the motor in indivual pieces you have to buy small sections and to buy the parts needed to rebuild it would exceed the cost of one , I can see $20,000 into this machine and it will still have metal in the system and unseen damages as you can never get all out of every hose , cylinder , valve , especially don't buy a 175 at any auctions in Louisiana the near furtue

 

[Tazza]

OUCH
Not at all nice......

 

[frogfarmer]

OUCH
Not at all nice......

Thanks for the heads up at the LA auctions. Parts for some machines are very expensive and prone to failure and others have cheap parts and last forever go figure.