M7060 road speed

[jimmy.voss]

I just purchased a brand new M7060HDC 12 speed, it has no power in 11th or 12th gear nor will it pull it's own weight in 12th gear on a flat road & can barely do it in 11th gear. I got it into 12th gear going downhill but to make it up the other side, I had to gear down to 9th gear, 14mph. The dealer says that is normal. Does anyone else have this problem? Is this normal in 12 speeds? Please help! tks jimmy

 

[Bulldog]

Friend of mine has a 8540 and it's gutless when it comes to hills. If it's really got 85 hp then my M9000 must be 120 hp. Even pulling a baler thru the field if you hit a hill it slows way down and you at constantly having to give it more throttle.

What are you pulling with yours?

 

[Tx Jim]

My M7040 will only lose 100-150 rpm's pulling a hill on highway close to my home BUT hills come in different grades in locations other than TX.

 

[jcummins]

Not sure the speed of my M7040....don't road it much, but think I've got more speed than that. Something doesn't sound right.

 

[lugbolt]

I've driven a couple of the same tractor.

Both are "weak" in higher gears. Any incline and you'll have to downshift. It's not that the engine is weak. It's that it's too weak to pull that much weight. IIRC the 7060HDC with a loader and a 72" bucket is around 7,000 lbs. Add a bale of hay, typically 800-2000 lbs. Tire ballast? Add a bunch. Doesn't take long to get to up around 10k lbs of weight-and it's only ~70hp.

When new, everything's tight and it'll eat up a little power. A/C on-eats up some more power. After everything gets good and broken in, typically a couple hundred hours at most, you'll likely find your missing power by then.

 

[Mtmoriahfarm]

With my 8540 I drop down a gear or two on hills. The first time I hit a hill It did drop down in speed but pulled it up over. It likes it a lot better down 1 or 2 gears.

 

[Tx Jim]

My M7040 mfwd,cab,cast rear wheels,fel with bale spears,loaded rear tires weighed 8888#s on certified scales

 

[Bulldog]

I wonder how close thee tractors are set to each other when it comes to power. I bought 2 M9000, one open station and one cab. If you didn't look at the model numbers you would swear they were different size machines. The open station would choke down with my 8' bushhog in heavy grass. The cab tractor will run a 15' batwing without issue. I bet they had 20 hp difference between the two. Even the amount of smoke is way different. Open tractor barely did smoke and the cab blows a nice black stream when it's under a load.

 

[bucktail]

Maybe the one with the cab has had the injectors turnt up.

 

[Bulldog]

It must, it has way more power than the other one.

 

[BAP]

If it's blowing black smoke when working, then someone has turned the injector pump up.

 

[Tx Jim]

I wonder how close thee tractors are set to each other when it comes to power. I bought 2 M9000, one open station and one cab. If you didn't look at the model numbers you would swear they were different size machines. The open station would choke down with my 8' bushhog in heavy grass. The cab tractor will run a 15' batwing without issue. I bet they had 20 hp difference between the two. Even the amount of smoke is way different. Open tractor barely did smoke and the cab blows a nice black stream when it's under a load.

Maybe the fuel flow on the open station tractor was restricted? Common place for restriction is in water separator housing.

 

[Bulldog]

Maybe the fuel flow on the open station tractor was restricted? Common place for restriction is in water separator housing.

It was like that from day one. It ran fine and if I hadn't bought another one I guess I would've never known the difference.

BAP,

It doesn't role coal but if it's under a load it has a nice light stream of black smoke. Now like shifting gears on the road it blows a good stream as you're building speed.
As far as being turned up, I agree but it came that way from the factory. No one but my son and I have ever worked on it and the pump has never been touched.

 

[gwtx]

I bought a 8540hdc and it wouldn't pull itself in 4 hi on flat ground. No doubt it had a problem, in fact, it had a LOT of problems.
Traded it in on a 7060hdc. It's not broke in good yet, it's not a rocket, but it will pull itself in 4 hi on flat ground. Never had it out on pavement, but down the runway I ran it up to 20mph once. Seems to have adequate power. I pull a 15' modern "shredder" (that's what we call a rotary cutter around here ) The specs say it weighs 5600 lbs.. It's a beast. It pulls it ok as long as the huisatche doesn't get too tall, and thick. I would imagine you have to get all the speed you can get out of 10th before you shift to 11, and 12. Never ran a 12 speed, but my 8 speed doesn't like to be lugged at all. Hope it "comes around for ya" as it gets more run time .