ak_snowbear
Well-Known Member
The continuing saga of the trashed CT332 final drive. The cost of parts to rebuild are way high so we are moving on to replacement. Machine has 2100hrs and is in decent shape.
A new drive from John Deere is 4100$ and no core charge.
No one has any rebuilds in stock. Folks have to send their broken drive in to be rebuild. The round trip freight cost makes this option too expensive.
Texas Final Drives has a pair of new aftermarket drives for 5500$ plus shipping. Couple things about these aftermarket drives concern me. One is replacement/service parts, they don't have any. They don't use the machines brake line, it gets capped, the drives have internal brakes. I'm not familiar with these, can someone school me? Finally all the hard lines are replaced w/hoses. I don't see the hoses fitting under the protective covers and would be exposed. The machine is used in the woods a lot where running over 2-3" trees is common.
What do you think?
Here is a pic and video from TFD of the aftermarket drives
A new drive from John Deere is 4100$ and no core charge.
No one has any rebuilds in stock. Folks have to send their broken drive in to be rebuild. The round trip freight cost makes this option too expensive.
Texas Final Drives has a pair of new aftermarket drives for 5500$ plus shipping. Couple things about these aftermarket drives concern me. One is replacement/service parts, they don't have any. They don't use the machines brake line, it gets capped, the drives have internal brakes. I'm not familiar with these, can someone school me? Finally all the hard lines are replaced w/hoses. I don't see the hoses fitting under the protective covers and would be exposed. The machine is used in the woods a lot where running over 2-3" trees is common.
What do you think?
Here is a pic and video from TFD of the aftermarket drives