Found a 4-175 White in a barn that has not been run in 5 years per the owner. It as a red strip and the serial number is 299884-422. Radiator is holding antifreeze but there are some issues. Apparently the farmer net his neighbor use it to do some heavy tillage work one fall. When he was done he parked it in the owners barn and told him it had a fuel leak. This appears correct since the fuel tank is empty, almost bone dry. Some of the other items I found including the engine oil barely touching the bottom of the dipstick. It is also very black for the barely 1/4 that shows. I don't know how short the oil may be but it looks like it was parked that way. The owner said he gave the neighbor a new oil filter and he was supposed to change the oil. Looks like that didn't happen and they also ran it low.
There is no hydraulic dipstick, the hole was plugged with a makeshift plastic plug. No oil could be seen. The front differential dipstick also didn't show any oil. Most disturbing was the three speed dipstick had no oil and the stick was tarnished with an almost rust looking color. No mice nests in the air cleaner.
Batteries are dead but he hooked up a battery charger so I could see the read out screen. It came up in a sporadic mode calling off codes like c31 32 40 41 45 79 81 76 70 80 82 18 79 84 ccc 901 908 101 47 90 2 33 67 97 73 and so on. It just kept flashing numbers, so many I took a video of it. I will admit I am not familiar with this specific model or the computer system utilized. It looks like the codes are cycling through citing everything that is not working or wrong with it. Without a cheat sheet to see the codes I am at a loss.
It has 3584 hours on the meter and looks like a nice heavy duty tractor. However there are way too many red flags especially the engine oil and 3 speed oil. Is there anything good regarding this barn find or should I just walk away. They want way to much $ for a non-running beast. Looking for insights.... My biggest concern is the engine oil. Looks like the neighbor ran it into the ground and parked it. I suspect that he may have known something else was wrong because he didn't ask to use it again after parking it.
Based on the serial number it was second to last one built in 1981.
There is no hydraulic dipstick, the hole was plugged with a makeshift plastic plug. No oil could be seen. The front differential dipstick also didn't show any oil. Most disturbing was the three speed dipstick had no oil and the stick was tarnished with an almost rust looking color. No mice nests in the air cleaner.
Batteries are dead but he hooked up a battery charger so I could see the read out screen. It came up in a sporadic mode calling off codes like c31 32 40 41 45 79 81 76 70 80 82 18 79 84 ccc 901 908 101 47 90 2 33 67 97 73 and so on. It just kept flashing numbers, so many I took a video of it. I will admit I am not familiar with this specific model or the computer system utilized. It looks like the codes are cycling through citing everything that is not working or wrong with it. Without a cheat sheet to see the codes I am at a loss.
It has 3584 hours on the meter and looks like a nice heavy duty tractor. However there are way too many red flags especially the engine oil and 3 speed oil. Is there anything good regarding this barn find or should I just walk away. They want way to much $ for a non-running beast. Looking for insights.... My biggest concern is the engine oil. Looks like the neighbor ran it into the ground and parked it. I suspect that he may have known something else was wrong because he didn't ask to use it again after parking it.
Based on the serial number it was second to last one built in 1981.
