When our partneship just got into swing my dad bought a 686 with the German Diesel. It was a lemon from the first week. It was a demonstrator so it had a couple hundred hours on it so we thought it would be OK. Well the batteries wouldn"t hold due to no copper in a section of the alternator wire. The harmonic balancer fell off at 200 hours. They drilled the holes for the wide front too deep and hit the oil cavity for the power steering. The sleeve o ring surfaces leaked on two sets of sleeves The pinion gear stripped off at 4000 hours. the fuel pump went nuts one year. The clutch springs broke twice causing the clutch to fail. And the best is one year when we were splitting up the partnership,my brother came down wanting to use my 706D because the shop had his tractor for a month. I told him to go back to see what happened,they should furnish a tractor. Came to find out they overhauled it due to the sleeves leaking and put it on the dyno to break it in with out putting oil in the crankcase. The insurance company wanted parts so it was on hold until they got them back.I did like that tractor for cutting hay once you got on it.The brother got rid of it before it made 5000hrs.
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