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Faunsdale, AL | Our 5325 has been the worst of all of our collection of xx10, xx20 and xx25 tractors. Electronic problems. Stopped going forward within 6 months of new. It has done this about every 6 months since then. Sitting in the shop right now scavenged to keep some of the other 20 series tractors running that didn't have the electronic reverser.
Ours get run in the cow lot pulling a rubber scrape and doing 4 wheeler duty out in the pasture. Water, manure and electronics don't mix. The location of the fuse panel on all of the xx10 and xx20 tractors was bad. It was under the dash panel just above the transmission/clutch housing with no protection from boots, water and mud.
Then we got the 5325 and the electronics are under the sheetmetal in front of the rear axle! Talk about jumping from the frying pan into the fire! First time it quit pulling, I went looking for the fuses and couldn't even tell there was a fuse panel and electronic control in there for all the manure and mud that were packed in that space. Really bad choice of places to put that stuff. It needs to be under the hood somewhere high so it will be protected and if it does get wet, it will be dried quickly by the engine heat. Some of the fuses in the panel on the 5325 are sealed in a covered box, but there are 4 or 5 additonal ones on our tractor (MFWD is there I think) that are exposed to whatever. All the wiring harness grounds are in there as well, I think that stack of grounds is part of the problem since it takes very little corrosion to stop it from working.
Maybe you don't abuse a tractor like our folks do, but JD could have made an effort to improve this thing. We have a 5055 now. Too new to tell if it's going to be reliable or not, but it has a whole lot less electric stuff on it. Unfortunately not reverser equipped, so we'll probably be changing clutches instead. | |
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5 cyl in John Deere 5325 any good?
