Check out 1206 on ebay

[Anonymous-0]

Check out this 1206 on EBAY. Wish I had some extra money laying around. Item # 280334794865 . Don't know about it running 145 hp. I guess it's possiable but don't think that 361 will hold up very long running it that high.

 

[the tractor vet]

I would hate to tell ya what my old bosses and my uncles old 806's were turning as they had the first two in the area when they first came out in 63 . now both had turbo's installed with in a week of delivery and the old RD pumps tweeted they were both running 165 and stayed there for as long as they were on the farms . My old boss liked the 806 so well that in 1964 he bought 806 #2 AND IT GOT THE SAME TURBO SET UP , in 1987 i bought that tractor off the farms second owner for the low end of nothing as it had a steering leak and had sat in the barn for several years as they had got a price to fix it from some guy and they told them that it was going to cost over two grand to fix and when i heard about it it was up for bid on trade in with several dealer . I did not have much play money and put a bid in for 2400 bucks and won the bid . Fixed it where it sat for now get this 14 bucks and change and drove it out . I did have to install two new batterys as they had froze but she ran like a top . and she was set at you guessed it 165 hp. So 145 is not a big deal.

 

[Larry B 1486]

165 hp. Could you keep them cooled down enough when they had a load on them. I still use two 806's today, stock hp and also have a 856 that I use to run around 125-130 with a windmill on the exaust manifold. The 806's out lasted the 856 by a long shot. Three years ago my 407 just would not go much longer and I found a 1206 with a bad rear end and the motor just gone thru about two years earlier, I bought the 1206 for 3,500.00 and put that motor in my 856 and had it on dyno , backed out the screw and set it at 120 hp. I love the sound of that DT361 and can not tell any difference from the old 407 when it was up to power and it don't run as hot as the 407 did with the same load. I just don't think you can beat thoes 361;s

 

[billonthefarm]

I suppose it was about 1977 when dad bought the 1206 that he still has. The local farmer who traded it in took fabulous care of his equipment so it looked just like new. He also liked things to run better than average. I dont remeber what he did to it but I remember it on the dyno going 181 hp. The original turbo lasted 20 years, the inj. pump has been rebuilt, new mcv hyd pump and one t/a has been put in. It has almost 9 thousand hours on the engine today and still has never been apart. Some people tear tractors up set at stock hp and others run them a lifetime way beyond stock hp and have very little problems.
bill

 

[the tractor vet]

Well , It ran like that from a week after it hit the farm for many years . The only problem that my uncles 806 had was operator error and that is only because my uncle installed a Mico brake lock. into the brake system. As many know you can not trust the over center park loc and this was way before the spring loaded park loc came out . We found out real fast that the over center park lock would not hold the tractor and potato harvester on a hill and that is why the micro loc was installed as one thing we have around here is HILLS . So when the web would break because of a huge rock someone would have to set on the seat and hold the brakes while repairs were made. Well with the amount of different people running tractors and truck that really did not know just how everything worked Sometimes someone would set the micro lock and also the park , then someone would jump on the tractor fire it up release the park loc but not the micro loc and come off the clutch and bang tear something up in the drive line . As for over heating i never saw it and i did a ton of plowing and discing . We had the first wing disc in the area just a 16 footer but over here that was enough pulle4d 5x16 and would run along in first high on the hills ya would have to use the t/a , don't ever remember her getting above the middle of the gauge . And besides it was still less then a half horse per cid. Look where we are at today as to Hp. per Cid.