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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fishfiles" data-source="post: 41274" data-attributes="member: 782"><p>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</p></blockquote><p></p>