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Jim in rush co

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Rush Co. Indiana
Don't you just love buying something new and discovering it has flaws! Bought the new 3 way back blade about 1-1/2 yrs ago for other place to use on drive and ditches. First off the cat.2 quick hitch was too narrow by about 1/4" for my JD old style quick hitch and had to beat apart with a sledge hammer in four different places. Got on tractor then discovered the parking stand would not raise enough because bracket welded on wrong and had to remove stand when using blade. I brought home and did a little weld cutting, welding and painting.

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I guess folks in Tennessee are just easy to satisfy, I have sold several of that identical blade and never had any complaints. I am not sure what you are saying about the hitch, I guess you are saying the tabs were too close to each other . Relocating the parking stand I have never had anyone need to do that. What was it hitting or why would it not work?
 
Case IH and fiat owners have suffered that same fate since the begging and they have gotten used to it they?ll even brag about them
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It would not raise because of hitting the top link mast support, could only get about 12-15" above ground and needed to go higher when doing ditch work to keep from hitting ground. I even bent the stand once and had to remove and straighten. The hitch tabs too close and had to spread apart, really should have cut and repositioned. I would have thought they would have made sure they were wide enough for the older quick hitches.
 
The tabs are set to meet cat one specs but I will pas it along, might get them to look at opening them up another 1/2 inch. I am to be up at the Land Pride plant latter this month so I,ll take a look. Thanks for choosing Land Pride.
 
My Woods Brush Bull and JD Frontier land plane are both a little older but fit the quich hitch ok. I really like the blade, had looked a JD & Woods also. The one I looked at, at the dealer I had measured and I think it would have been wide enough. I bought mainly because of the offset and tilt. I'll say one thing their paint matches good, I went to dealer 4 miles north but did not have had to go to the one 15 miles south to get the paint.
 
In 1970 a friend of mine bought a New Plymouth Cuda, 440 magnum four speed. Well it and the Dodge Challenger must have came down the same assembly line. About a year after be bought it he noticed that the ribs in the bucket seat on one side ran up and down, and on the other side they went crossways! Quality control wasn?t very good back then!
 
Doing bodywork all those years I saw a lot, Had one local farmer bought a new Pontiac Star Chief and had 3 years or so, his wife messed up a fender. When we had in shop I discovered it had chrome around windows on one side of car but not the other? I think him and the dealer had a good laugh!
 
We used to get a lot of Purolater filters in the gas station with no threads.There was an article years ago about Chevy Novas being found with no valve stems in the wheels.I thought it was a joke until I found how they mounted and inflated their new tires.When I saw the clip of tires being mounted and inflated I realized,yes,they can blow them up without a stem.
 
There was an old star chief in the woods down the road. I use to set in it deer hunting in my younger days. We bought the farm a few years back and dad pushed it and an old studebaker out with the dozer before I got the chance get the chrome emblems off of them.
 
Not uncommon at all for Quick Coupler jaws to be thicker/wider than the ball in the end of standard hitch arms. They did not need a snap pin to stay intact with the hitch pin. Your quick coupler was the problem. Your blade would have fit directly onto your hitch arms without the QC.
Loren
 
I used to save a lot of the old name plates and emblems, One of the younger guys got to collecting them, I kind of made his day! Last year at the Rushville steam show I gave an old friend an original Pony from 1965 Mustang grille. Had been in one of my tool boxes since 1966.
 
Years ago, (1960?), while walking up a stone filled creed, I found a couple of old milk wagons and a large 1920s vintage sedan with wooden wheels. Water had been running through all for years so nothing was salvageable but I took the "Roosevelt 8" emblem from the car. Must have been a Franklin. It's still there but one can only imagine the condition.

Still have the emblem somewhere.

Dean
 
There's been a lot of commotion in the auto body business of aftermarket versus OEM sheet metal. Insurance companies love to mandate OEM sheet metal, and body shops love to advertise that OEM is all they use.

When I had my shop, I had occasion to replace the right front fender on an Olds Cutlass Ciera. The owner was paying for it, and he was more cost conscious than picky so he insisted I use an aftermarket fender. While installing the fender, I spotted a manufacturing defect. Just an odd twist in the metal that was hidden after the fender was installed.

Several months later, by coincidence, I had to replace the right front fender on a different Ciera. That was an insurance job and they insisted I use an OEM fender. Guess, what? Same defect.

I also noted an oddity in an aftermarket Chevy pickup box side. An OEM replacement had the same oddity. Made you wonder just where the heck GM was getting their OEM sheet metal. I always suspected they were purchasing aftermarket sheet metal primed to their specs and selling it as OEM for a bigger mark up.
 
My first cousin was a REAL motor head in the 1950s and 60s, even more than I was in the late 1960s.

Among others, he had a 1969 Hemi Cuda with torque-flite (bought new by his half brother) and a 1970 Dodge Challenger 440, 6 Pack, 4 speed, convertible (triple black). He told me that the Challenger would dust the Hemi Cuda any day of the week. Knowing who he was and what he had done, I believe him.

Dean
 
Rather, I would have wondered what the Chinese manufacturers were using for patterns.

Dean
 
I worked in a Dodge dealership right out of highschool. Someone brought in a car complaining of valve clatter. Slant six engine, rocker cover was pulled to adjust the noisy rockers and it was found the oil passages were not open and no oil had ever been on the topside. Shaft and rockers were worn. Car had over 60,000 miles.
 
My Son had a 1969 Cuda in the mid 1970's. He needed my pickup so I drove it to work over 30 miles one way. I determined it needed at least 200 pounds in the trunk.
 
Went to the parts counter for a set of plugs for a nice Torino with a Cleveland. One of the plugs was all of the parts of the plug not assembled or crimped. Jim
 
(quoted from post at 17:17:06 03/22/19) In 1970 a friend of mine bought a New Plymouth Cuda, 440 magnum four speed. Well it and the Dodge Challenger must have came down the same assembly line. About a year after be bought it he noticed that the ribs in the bucket seat on one side ran up and down, and on the other side they went crossways! Quality control wasn?t very good back then!
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friend of mine had bought a brand new from the factory ten wheel Chevy truck, had it for ten years and it was time for new tires. After they changed the tires the tire shop salesman asked if he knew about the one side having dayton rims and the other having budd rims. until that time nobody had noticed the difference .
 
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