Death comes to us all. Life's but a walking shadow | I have a 3588 which I used for plowing & tillage. I've had two drive train problems. One was the front pumpkin locked up but we didn't take it apart but rather swapped it out for another one. The second was 3rd & 4th gear failed in the transmission but I may have caused that by trying to shift going down hill and locked it up. It came loose easily by pulling the tractor backward a little to take the pressure off the gears but it failed a few months later. The torque amplifier failed but that was probably because the CaseIH shop that repaired the transmission didn't reconnect the control rod tight enough and it ran in between for some time. Since we very seldom used the torque amplifier we didn't discover it until we were doing other maintance. Since then we only use the high range. When I got mine I suspect somebody had turned the engine up because when I changed out the injector pump a few years ago it never seemed to have the same power.
In the book they warn you not to put duals on the front, probably because of the traction. The 3588 is rated at 150 hp but you'll run out of engine before traction so I would guess the load on the drivetrain is pretty high. I only run single 18.4x38's all around and I still have plenty of traction to pull a 6 bottom 735 plow.
The big drawback with the tractor is the driver fatique steering it. I can only stand to plow 5-6 hours before my shoulders just get too tired. The thing is when you're moldboard plowing you need to actively steer at all times because the big front wheels will walk right up out of the furrow in blink of an eye. The tractor works pretty well to pull a JD 1650 chisel plow with 12 shanks because you don't need to follow the furrow so close. |
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