6080 Issues To Look For

 The pto on these tractors work fine as long as they are operated correctly. To engage the pto bring the tractor to idle. Pull back the pto temporary disconnect lever to the right of the seat. It is a long lever with a yellow hand grip. The yellow pto light will come on in the dash. Reach down near the floor on the left side of the seat and pull up the pto engagement rod. You may have a little grind as it engages. I usually shut our 6060's engine off to prevent this because I don't like to hear it. Then I restart the tractor, and slowly engage the pto temporary disconnect. At this point the pto is engaged and the yellow pto light goes off. The best way for me to explain it is when I am baling hay and lets say I have 200 ft to get to the next windrow I can pull the pto disconnect lever back to temporarily disconnect the pto and then slowly re engage the lever to start the baler again without stopping the tractor as I approach the windrow. Works great for hay farmers. Now the problem that arose is when folks left the pto temporary disconnect lever pulled back when not using the pto. This puts a lot of pressure on the front crankshaft bearing and causes issues. AC came out with a crank shaft bearing support that mounts on the front of the engine. Dealers were supposed to install these on customer tractors they had previously sold that did not have them from the factory at AC's cost. That did not always happen as our father was never notified to have one installed on his new 6060. By the time we found out about the issue, AC had shut the doors. If it's used properly there should not be any issue, our father and my brothers and I have always operated it per the AC manual. Most likely it will have a bearing support installed on it, just look in front of the engine. Grease it at each engine oil change. When you go look at the tractor see if the temporary lever is pulled back. If it is that's not a good sign. Ask the seller how he operates the pto. If they leave it pulled back, personally I would walk away from it even if it has a bearing support.  Just my opinion

Well, went and looked at the tractor.  Has a Westondorf loader also.  The brace is on the front of the tractor.  The PTO lever was pulled backed into the off position (good/bad?).  The PTO engagement lever on the left side of the seat was in the up position (on I guess?), which I interpreted was the engaged position.  The owner said he would shut the tractor off when engaging the pto lever on the left side of the seat.  He has only owned the tractor for six years and used on his 3 acre lot.  It drove and operated well.  I made him an offer, he counted, and I accepted, so now I have a new to me 6080.  We'll see how it operates.  Less than 10 miles from home, so . . . Let me know what you think.  Thanks for your comments.  Dave

That lever should be forward when not in use and the rod to the left side of the seat pushed down when not in use. He is right about shutting the tractor off when pulling up on that LH rod.  Great tractors though.

skateboarder68 wrote: Sometimes the fitting at the bottom of the fuel tank gets some crud in it. I remove the line and poke around with a real thin piece of wire to get fuel flowing again. If it dies in the field look here before assuming fuel pump issues

We’ve learned to take the cap off the tank and the bleeder off the fuel filter then blow back into the tank.