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    John Deere 3032E problems

    Well. It looks like I’m screwed. I have had emails flying back and forth with my dealer and right now everything is up in the air. I have a PowerGardTM Protection Plan Residential on the tractor until 2021 or 1000 hours. I have 450 hours on the machine and am asking for it to be up graded to...
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    John Deere 3032E problems

    I got my tractor back last Thursday. The mechanic rode shotgun with the driver so I was able to ask questions. They put new seals in the front axle but did not put the new dipstick vent in the axle. Never got a good answer why but I will find out. Could not determine if a valve was replaced in...
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    John Deere 3032E problems

    In 2015 we bought a John Deere 3032E with loader, 6’ mower deck plus a landscape rake. It was new but had about 15 hours on it from, (what the sales guy said was from being driven around the lot). After we had it for about a week the left rear wheel fell off. They said I should have checked the...
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    John Deere 3032E possible lemon??

    I have been hoodwinked. My JD dealer is trying to pull a fast one on me. When the dealer extended my protection plan to 2021 and 1000 hours he did it with PowerGard Protection Plan Residential. The plan is one of two and called “Comprehensive”. The plan has these features, (Comprehensive...
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    John Deere 3032E possible lemon??

    I am in NC and we don't have a lemon law for tractors. I am 13 miles from VA and they do. Maybe I should pitch a tent across the border and claim it as my address. BTW, in small print that you see in a warranty packet when the tractor is delivered it says the customer pays for service calls and...
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    John Deere 3032E possible lemon??

    JOHN DEERE 3032E (Not heavy equipment maybe???) We bought this tractor in May of 2015. It had about 20 hours on it and the sales guy said it was from people like us driving it on the lot. It was delivered and we bought it with a front bucket, 6’ mower and a landscape rake. The first week the...
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    Case 580SE dry brakes replacement.

    Job all done, the right hand brakes are working. Time will tell if the seals hold up. Here are a couple of tips from what I did. In order to remove the small seal I used a long wood blade from a sawzall. I ground it with a little hook at the end and ground it sort of like a knife edge. Extracted...
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    Case 580SE dry brakes replacement.

    Thanks alrman. Bit of a mess, maybe, I will find out tomorrow. The shims are clean as are all the other parts. It looks to me that if I remove the housing leaver pin, reinstall the housing then attach the brake cyl to the leaver and reinstall the pin and roll pin that it might just go smooth. I...
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    Case 580SE dry brakes replacement.

    I am thinking I can answer all my questions and it is not looking good. What the side gear is hitting is the final drive gear. The manual does not say or indicate that it must be out of the differential in order to remove the side gear. Had I known that I would have left the housing in place...
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    Case 580SE dry brakes replacement.

    I have had this 1984 580 since 2015 and have been using it with one, (Left) brake. I am now at the point where it can be down for a while and I have been taking the right brake off. It was full of oil and a few years ago I replaced the large seal. Never knew there was a smaller seal but now both...
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    Backhoe and a Pole Barn?

    My wife and I built a barn for our 580SE a couple of years ago with all material cost at $1700. Took us 10 days with the last two in rain and a broken generator. It is 12'W X 30'L and the door is 10'W by about 11 high. I just leave the boom down. Slide show here...
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    Me BLUTO and my wife built our new house.

    Last year we spent 3 months in NC putting in our foundation. This year we went up from FL in April and finished the house in the end of Oct. We did it as owner/builder and it is my 3rd house to design and build. Because I'm old my wife would not let me on the roof so we hired a crew to hang the...
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    1983-4 580SE foreward/reverse

    I went under the machine today and found nothing amiss. Linkage was straight, nuts on the linkage were tight, nothing moved. Control arm can only move so far back and it seats on the casting of the case. However there is something strange. At the end of the shift shaft there is a lever that the...
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    1983-4 580SE foreward/reverse

    jimr That was my first thought but I have not run over anything that would bend it. However that is the first thing I will look at, thanks.
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    1983-4 580SE foreward/reverse

    All of a sudden my reverse shift lever drops all the way to my lap. The shift works fine but the entire F,N,R has shifted or rotated to the left. I looked at the manual and from the photos can't tell if the control arm (with the three holes, indents) is keyed to the threaded part of the control...
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