8310

[Anonymous-0]

any of you people out there familiar with the problems with the 8310 jds. i just bought one with 3900 hours. my mechanic says trade it off.
the 8310 were just a lot of trouble. has anyone herd of any problem they had with this model.
thnx jim

 

[buickanddeere]

herd?

 

[Kevin Schmidt]

You need a new mechanic.

That is one of the better tractors out there. Period.

The 1st year or 2 of the 8300 was a tractor to stay away from, they did have some factory updates for them, can't tell you exactly what.

You can ask over on this site, lots more 'real' farmers on that site, with a lot of knowledge on the newer stuff.

http://talk.newagtalk.com/category-view.asp?showall=true

 

[rexhellwig]

Those things are a real pile of junk. I could probably take it off your hands for salvage price. . . but seriously..

They are a fine tractor. If I owned one, I would spend whatever it took to keep it running and figure on keeping it at least another 10,000 hours and probably more. They are comfortable to run and produce a ton of power fairly efficiently. They still have a steel hood and common sense electronics - unlike their replacements.

If you don't know when the trans oil was changed last, I would change it NOW. If the rocker arm cover gasket still has green paint, the engine valves have probably never been adjusted. I would do that NOW. I would change the MFWD fluids also, being very careful not to overfill the hubs. At 4500 hours the rubber drive cushion in the flywheel will be due for replacement. Change the front crankshaft damper at this time, too. Get yourself an operators manual and learn it.

The 8310 did have a few problems unique to the entire ten series: The biggest was a problem called "piston de-bonding". This usually happened in the first 3000 hours. The pistons (built by Kolbenschmidt) would begin to separate between the steel piston ring insert and the aluminum crown above it. Eventually a chunk of the piston top would come loose and wreck that particular cylinder, two valves, an injector, and the turbo. I would always try to sell the guy the other five pistons also since they were likely cast at the same time and prone to fail soon. I never saw a repeat failure if all were replaced. It has been at least three years since I have had to do one of these, so hopefully most of the problem pistons have been changed.

Another problem you may run into with the ten series is the plastic water pump impeller. I have seen 4 or 5 come loose and cause the motor to overheat. The new pump will have a metal impeller.

To my knowledge, these are the only problems unique to eight thousand ten series that you might have a chance of seeing.