What do you think?

[Farmer_Randy4020]

I am almost done restoring my 2510 John Deere Power shift. Complete engine rebuild, and complete transmission rebuild. Its runs and drives like its brand new. I have the dash off of it right now, and the tachometer reads 8951 Hours. Should I turn it back to zero, or should i leave it alone? How done i roll the number back anyway?

Thanks

My email is [email protected]

 

[IaGary]

Leave it alone.

It is not a brand new tractor.

Gary

 

[Larry59]

I had my turned back. All the new stuff in and on it makes it new as I see it. Be hard to keep tract of hours you put on new engine and if I seen that many hours on motor and you said it was newly rebuilt. I would question that myself.
Just my thoughts on matter but mine is turned.

 

[IaGary]

Would you do the same to an automobile if you put a new engine in it?

Here in Iowa it is against the law to roll back the miles and it is the same with farm machinery rolling back the hours.

Gary

 

[bradk]

Even if you renewed EVERYTHING,(which I'm sure you haven't), it still doesn't justify rolling the numbers back.Just not right.

Only Wal-Mart is allowed to have roll-backs.

 

[thurlow]

Sounds to me like it's a tractor with 8951 hours on it......when your wife gets her hair done, manicure, pedicure, teeth straightened/whitened, face lifted, liposuctioned and her plumbing fixed, does that make her an 18 year old again?

 

[wfw]

jot down the number of hours on the hour meter and whenever anyone ask tell them it was rebuilt at that number of hours, I had a minivan I had the engine remanufactored at 141,000 miles and that is what I did whenever I got rid of it, it had 210,000 at the time

frank

 

[Anonymous-0]

I'd make note of the hours and leave it be, the honest thing to do even if you don't ever sell it.

A friends father owned a well known body shop, he completely restored a '55 T-Bird. Every nut, bolt, bushing, weatherstrip, frame off, motor trans, rear, etc. etc. NYS DMV allowed the odometer to be put back to zero, not sure how that worked, but if something ever qualified, this car sure did. Not sure if I'd have done the same thing, but it was a complete disassembly, all parts checked, rebuilt etc.

 

[Goose]

If I was buying a tractor, and if it showed 9500 hours and the owner proved the engine had been rebuilt at 8900, and if everything else fell into place, I'd buy it.

If I encountered one that had had the hour meter reset, I'd walk. I'd have only the owner's word how many hours it had on it before it was reset. Even if the owner had a photo of the hour meter showing "X" number or hours, it could be a photo of his buddy's identical tractor.

Legalities aside, and they vary from state to state, my personal opinion is you'd be harming the tractor's value moreso than enhancing it.

 

[Gary in da UP]

I would'nt tamper with your original, but you could install a new hour meter set at zoro and Icouldn't fault you for that. gh

 

[Anonymous-0]

Do what ever you want. It's your tractor and your meter. If you want to keep track of hours since rebuild, what better way to do it. If you keep the tractor then who cares. But if you sell the tractor you must be up front and tell that is NOT original hours. Everyone will know however that a 50 year old tractor will have more than 20 hours on it. I had the hour meter apart for repair on my 2440 and I rolled it back to zero at that time. As long as you don't advertise it as original hours I see nothing wrong with it. To do it you simply bend the flange off the glass and remove the guts. Then pull the pin out of the wheel spacers and line up wheels to zero or what ever numbers you want showing then put pin back in and reinstall in body. Put the glass back in and crimp flange back down.

 

[paul]

It's up to you,I'd prefer it showing the hours the whole machine has been through. Reset would be a turn off for me.

--->Paul

 

[Bruce Hopf]

What I recommend to my customers when I do an engine overhaul is to put an hour meter underneath the hood near the battery box. Just in case they decide to sell the tractor, or if the original hour meter quits, they have the proof of how many hour of service is on the rebuilt. Hope this helps.
Bruce.