I just bought a JD 410 (not a letter series). I am fairly certain that it was imported from England based on an old phone number painted on the tractor and some decals.
The hoe has an odd "slide" that I've not seen before. The hoe functions normally but also has the capability to slide side to side across the width of the machine.
Does anyone have any info on this machine and are there any known problems/weak points?
I am the "proud" owner of one of these, commonly referred to as a white or grey machine that I purchased in early 2005. I say "proud" because all the JD parts people I've talked to in US, after telling them what I have offer their condolences...
The frame came out of the Manheim Germany plant, the engine out of France and the double 4 front end loader out of England, so I lovingly refer to it as my Johnny Cash Cadillac John Deere...
They are similar, but subtly different than the ones coming out of the
Dubuque,
Iowa plant and had some problems finding correct parts until someone pointed out the correct parts catalog for this tractor (PC4137).
recently after logging close to 800 hours, I split the tractor, pulled engine sent it to Michigan and had a custom remanufacture done on it, put a new, not rebuilt, hydraulic pump, replaced with new, clutch and pressure plate and had original starter and alternator remanufactured.
Over the years, the hydraulic system had seen some abuse, so months before the split, I started cleaning it up as best I knew how by draining, changing filters, running for 4-5 hours then repeating process. The system holds 20 gallons, but one can only drain about 7 at a time. By the time of the split had run about 60 gallons through this way and oil at dipstick looked mostly clear.
At post install start up, new pump acted like it was starving a bit for hydraulic oil and after some inquiring learned of transmission screen. Drained it, pulled it and it was chock full of all sorts of nasty sludge and replaced it with a new screen. On post start up pump sounded much better, so I took it up in pasture for a little break in run. After a couple hours use hydrostatic steering, I've never had problems with, started getting hard so I took it back to shop. Let it sit for a couple days before starting again and steering improved, so I took it out again. Within about an hour, steering got hard and eventually quit. Didn't want to leave it in pasture, so cracked hoses open on return side of steering cylinders and pried wheels in the direction of travel, retightened connections then drove tractor as far as I could, then stop and repeat process. By this time I figured the culprit to be some remnant trash in hydraulic system, but where? At one point in the process, I loosed connection from the pressure steel line from steering box at the hydraulic hose going to left steering cylinder and was surprised no fluid came out when started. finally backed tightening nut all the way off started, still no flow. Finally physically pulled hose connection apart and started and got a steady but low pressure stream of fluid. That told me there was a trash blockage in steering box. After getting back to shop, loosened both connections and fired it up, started working steering wheel and in about 90 seconds of run time it passed about 5 gallons of fluid. Shut it down, filled with fluid, retightened connections, restarted, but steering was still very hard. Probably going to be a reiterative process until the trash finds a happier place, as in one of the two clean filters...
