Steiger tractors

[SVcummins]

Facts

 

[ss55]

Specifications and advertisement.

 

[jon f mn]

Most of them are tough as nails. Only issues I know with them is some had less than ideal engines.

 

[rrlund]

There were a few used ones that found their way here eventually, but Versatile was the big one here among the potato growers. Those and the big 4 wheel drive Cases.

 

[4020man]

To jon f mn You must not be familar with tjhe ST310 with the hungarian final drives.

 

[SVcummins]

After running versatile and Steiger I like the versatile they are both component tractors but I really liked the versatile

 

[4520BW]

They put V8 diesels in some. The 555 was the worse.

 

[showcrop]

That was back when we were still doing preventive maintenance, before it became preventative maintenance.

 

[4020man]

To 4520bw Get a 855 old cummins and put the button in the pump. 400+ H.P.

 

[Bob Bancroft]

Phooey

The axles in my ST320/Turbo Tiger II were made by RABA in Hungary.

 

[Bill(Wis)]

Friend of mine has 4 Steigers. Has been running them for years and years. He farms 3000 acres of corn and soybeans plus he helps out on another 2000 acres. I believe they are pretty good tractors.

 

[SVcummins]

It was still preventive in the year 2000

 

[wore out]

(quoted from post at 17:29:23 07/30/21) Phooey

The axles in my ST320/Turbo Tiger II were made by RABA in Hungary.

Bumpcroft, WHY did you say "Phooey"?

IMHE those RABA axles and planetary final drives are almost BULLETPROOF.

Have you had a negative experience with them?

 

[the tractor vet]

Put a Button in it ya sure , son i have built Cummins to flat out and RUN and that is the last thing ya want to do . say you have a # 25 Button in it now and you drop top a # 10 all your going to do it make it run HOT . I built a NTC 350 small cam that would plum knot the socks off a KTA 600 turned up 20% and i DID NOT change out the # 35 Button that was in it from the FACTORY . I was pushen 580 PSI on the pump fed to six shooter injectors that were matched to 178 CC of fuel per 900 strokes and 68 Psi of boost from the hair drier with a gov run out of 2450 and would pull down to 1750 before we went under the charger . I can not tell you just how much pony power it made due to the fact that went placed on the dyno after a KTA 600 that they had just bumped up 20% layed down 478 ponies at 55 MPH to the ground and mine was a WEEEEEEE bit over that at 65 MPH when she broke the chain and went out the door taking the gauge conceal with it and stopping inches from the retaing wall . This happened back in early 1978 with my new 1977 I H 4300 Eagle . There were two 4300 eagles that were Built by me , mine and my one buddy 's He and i bought almost twin 4300 eagles on the same night at the same dealer and both trucks were built back to back on the line with only one number in the S/N different and the colors . we pulled coal buckets we hauled extremely heavy and fully loaded he and i could smoke anybody on the hills like we were Empty . Here east of the big Creek there was not one hump that neither Mikey or i could not take 48-50 TON Net up at less the 72 MPH . I have set up several other Cummins to run . None as far as Mike and i went . Now due to the factor of Old age as of NOW only one still alive that knew these two trucks that i am aware of is another friend that rode with me a couple times and who got to dive it for a week when my first daughter was born as i needed someone i could trust to run it . I was on my way to load a double load of C F C salt for a feed mill in Ill. when i was stopped before i pulled out as the wife called and got me stopped as she went into labor . I called Sid and put him in the truck to make the run . when he came back from that round he said it was like driving a Hemi Road Runner pulling a 16 foot boat , That double load of salt was 96000 in the wagon , the load of scrap back was 92000. Ya want real power out of a 855 , ya need the gear pump off a 1750 Cummins V 12 , next ya need the purple spring in the ft. of the pump , next ya take a 5/16th drill bit to the throttle shaft , next ya machine a slug to do away with the android and depending on Gov run out some shims , next up is a valve adjustment change and it is NOT factory as the same goes on injector settings , next up is resetting cam followers or as some call it a timing change and that is another thing i will take to the grave with me . Many ah Cummins have gone to there early grave with let's change the BUTTON . I could flat foot that sap sucker up Fancy gap Bald eagle and never see the pyro go above 1150 or water temp go over 190 with a charge on running with the cars like i was empty . Only truck i never ran against was the SOUTHERN Shaker as we never crossed paths .

 

[showcrop]

(quoted from post at 20:44:14 07/30/21) It was still preventive in the year 2000
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It is imperatative to superlatative preventative maintenance.

 

[Geo-TH,In]

SV,
I think the Old Steiger is still for sale in Terre Haute.
Interested, I'll get the number.

 

[big tee]

Had a ST-250 with a Cat 3306 and a Cougar 1000 with a Cummins L-10--Both good tractor but went back to Deere--Still have the old 2200--Have the tile plow on it---Tee

Son's 8630 with a Cummins and the Steiger-2200 putting tile in

6-V-92 Detroit

 

[Olliejunkie]

I dont know what I will ever do with one but I want one someday. Spent alot of hours in a ih steiger back in the 80s and a few years back I spent the fall in a ford steiger. I believe its engine was swapped out to a n14. They sure beat the crud out of a guy working down a field.

 

[Tom OConnor]

I had the first 325 that came into the State of Michigan and it was a big disappointment. The three gear planetary hubs had to be changed out to the five gear hubs at a cost of over four thousand a corner. The old ones would get hot enough you could fry eggs on them. Next the banded duals were hard to keep tight and would easily load with dirt between the tires if you hit a spot that was too wet, the air conditioning system was only a touch better than nothing at all, the hydraulic system was inadaquit in volume and pressure and the clutch was a dry clutch and had to be always be engaged at idle and the implement out of the ground. The engine was a 325 horse Cat 3406 and was as good the day I sold the tractor as the day I bought it.

 

[caterpillar guy]

I'll take the Stieger over the Versatile. They are heavier and better built to me. We have 3 different Ones. 2 cougars and a panther. A 325 ,310 and 270 the 270 is tired with about 15,000 hours or more on it. Changed one wheel seal and a swivel bolt in the bottom of the frame joint on it. If you want it perfect it is not. Slow on the road yes. The bigger ones are a bit faster on the road. They will pull a 30 foot Sunflower disc and not know it is back there. Pulls the chisel plow faster yet. Need a 35or so foot field cultivator for them.