John Deere 7730 with 10,980 hours replacing EGR Cooler

[@toddpetry7859]

Once again taking on a repair that would make those big KZbin farmers cry. Great job as always.

[@PatsPurposefulPutzing]

One of my favorite episodes -- really enjoy your thinking out loud about the repair as you "educate" Christian. Also thanks for modeling the merch; I have one of those hoodies on my Christmas list. Being a mechanical engineer myself, I enjoyed your "genius" comment. I appreciate you. 🙂

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Merry Christmas

[@mitch8226]

Merry Christmas for your team ,farmers feed the world

[@ztracks7600]

It's mind boggling when you think about it. A tractor like this new probably costs around $300,000 and when you eventually reach 11,000 hours it still costs you $30 an hour to own. Plus fuel maintenance and repairs. Crazy. In 1981 my dad bought a JD 3140 brand new. It has 11,000 hours on it now as well but only cost $13,000. The economics in farming has certainly changed in 40+ years.

[@richardradawetz8788]

30$ an hour is pretty cheap usage

[@fernandogonzalezfarinas9685]

In spain ,the 7730 (new of course) its around 130.000 €. Fendt or Valmet are now 1000€ per HP

[@MorganOtt-ne1qj]

Amazing how the Government can make a simple diesel engine complicated. People writing rules about things they know nothing about, and "engineers" that never turned a wrench, but designed something they will never use or repair. Keep at it, Andy! Merry Christmas to the whole Hourigan crew that keeps it going!

[@smoothbore4377]

On behalf of Engineers everywhere, I appreciate the recognition. Just hope the Bean Counters let the Blower Designer build a blower that will last.

[@cluckhead1913]

Only an engineer would crawl over 30 beautiful women to screw a mechanic!

[@davidholder3207]

Merry Christmas to you and the team for all the info and entertainment of 2024.

[@JimMiller-y9n]

Andy, I love that you pay attention to detail. Keeping your equipment OEM as much as possible and even keeping up with the decals. I work the same way. Merry Christmas to you and your family and all your crew.

[@rodneymacfarlane1707]

MEERY XMAS ANDY TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AS WELL AS YOUR EMPLOYES / KEEP SAFE AND WARM TO YOU ALL /FROM AUSTRALIA

[@BernardBouchard-qq9kq]

Your going to need your own body shop.

[@280813jb]

Merry Christmas to you Andy, your family and staff at the farm, always enjoy your videos.

[@scottmills8089]

You are a great mechanic Andy ,also have a lot of patience!! Save you an your family a lot of expenses. Keep up the great videos. Merry Christmas an a Happy New year to your whole family an employees.

[@paddymickiemickie8221]

We love your work Andy Merry Christmas from Paddy in Oz 🇦🇺🇮🇪🍀☘️🚜

[@kaldudas9651]

Andy good to see Christian learning from you we need more young people learning to fix things with price of new equipment.Merry Christmas you and your family and to all the people that work on your farm 👍🚜

[@martinboilard2265]

Hi Andy good looking tractor for all most 11000 hours . Good job ! Thanks for your time and have a good everyone ! 🙋‍♂️

[@philglover2973]

Awesome video thanks Andy for your time and consideration top job top team have a great Christmas and a happy New year 🇬🇧🇺🇲🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

[@markbowling3475]

Merry Christmas Andy to you and your whole family

[@alfredomarotta6604]

Merry Christmas to you and your family and staff. Happy, healthy, prosperous and blessed New Year.

[@mikegozdziewski3289]

Love how you guys fix the littlest parts. Says a lot about you all how you care how things look. Great job!

[@rayhein8205]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family! Thanks for taking us along on your journey! It has been entertaining and educational. Truly admire your work ethic and family involvement in running a successful operation. Not sure everyone realizes the complexity of your successful dairy farm. Best wishes for continued success!

[@BigTader]

Great video Andy Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

[@brandygray5894]

Merry Christmas to all.

[@flytwin1772]

Andy, as I do service for industrial machines for years it is often a pain because the lack of space pieces are cramped together. The reason why this is so, the engineers always tell it is time and money, means make it fast and cheap so the company can earn a lot !

[@jamesmorrison1884]

Hello Andy enjoyed your video. Thats what i say how do the engineers figure out how to get all this in and still have have it functioning properly great job. I think well done. Excellent repair have a good day.

[@rothfarms]

Merry Christmas 🎄🎁

[@kevinrutt5949]

Merry Christmas to you and the family I hope your holidays are good one plus new years too ! You guys are the best and keep safe

[@geraldfrench3287]

Merry Christmas Andy.

[@johnwudarcki9315]

My brother worked at the Chrysler Tech Center years ago. Because I was bitching about how things were made so hard to work on. He told me things are designed for ease of manufacturing, not servicing. One of his jobs was determining shop hours for repairs

[@Adam_Poirier]

Excellent video. The only thing I like more than watching you work in the shop is listening to you explain and give your thoughts. Pretty much spot on about the engineer thing, I don't know if you were being sarcastic or not but I've kind of always thought that myself. Imagine sitting down and designing some thing as complex as a newer piece of equipment, you've got to figure out the thermal heating and cooling load inside the cab based on all kinds of different conditions and on top of that you're gonna think about gee I wonder if they're gonna be able to get that squirrel cage out of there if the SCV harness is in the way? Let me run down the hall and ask Bob who is the engineer designing that side of the tractor. It's like yeah OK... lol. Take it easy man, don't get no diesel fuel on your gloves it's cold out there tonight

[@johnc8112]

The trackor is not even broken in yet. 😂😂 Great video keep up the awesome work you do with your family and crews. Marry Christian and a Happy New Year

[@corlehomesteadfarms920]

We have 7730 with 10,300 hrs on her. It’s been an awesome tractor. Very minimal problem. It has a loader most of its hrs are loader hrs pushing bunker and loading trucks with feed.

[@markreetz1001]

11,000 hours? Huh? Too bad you can't get substantial hour out of your tractors these days! LOL!! Sure seemed like the whole job went pretty smoothly! Thanks Andy! Merry Christmas to you, the family and the crew.

[@jimpolk]

At least its running today. Stay warm. Its only 7° real temp. Wind chill is -2°.

[@cubcadetsteve4148]

Enjoy your videos, Andy

[@davidmitchell6974]

Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you family and crew thanks for what you do and sharing your experience with videos truly awesome !🇺🇸

[@KeithRoyer-d1p]

Merry Christmas Andy and family.

[@mikegozdziewski3289]

Love how you guys fix the littlest parts. Says a lot about you all how you care how things look. Great job! Would you guys ever build a new shop. Just wondering

[@joelmoody1569]

Hi Andy,well it maybe a real mongrul to work on that tractor and it's cab but it sure beats a 4020 with a year round cab.. Merry Christmas to all at the farm and a Happy New year. Thanks for another great video.

[@ronaldfeuerstein435]

Andy. You know your P's and Q's with what you repair. Most of these Karen 's out there have never worked much less owned equipment of this quality! You keep doing what your doing.. Thank you for sharing..

[@lawrencewilliamson3303]

Love the shop videos , shop makes a lot of money for you,i assume pulling the big wagons is harder on tractor brakes and tires then field work would be

[@randybennett5417]

Good thing you folks have lots of tractors.

[@landyandy7]

Happy christmas from the uk

[@shawnclark7051]

Merry Christmas to you and your family

[@thomascurran2990]

parts are expensive, hope milk price is heading right way too. Happy Christmas to all there

[@donniehodge2548]

Another good job Andy 👏

[@stevenclaeys6252]

Thank you for another Great video. Cheers

[@Ham68229]

I do agree and yet disagree about engineers. Yes, genius on figuring out how to get it to fit, idiots when it comes to time to work on this stuff. LOL To be honest, this is the biggest reason why I just prefer the older equipment, so much easier to work on and have plenty of room to work on stuff as well. What many will fail to understand, this tractor has served you quite well and all this work isn't just maintenance, it's an investment.

[@Rodmanvt]

How about an update on the new parlor bub!!😀😀

[@timjorden8329]

I really like the look of this tractor.

[@404nitro]

Merry Christmas Andy and family. I don't know how that EGR body is built, but could you use your Vevor endoscope and look around inside and see where it may have failed? After the video you made on that endoscope, I bought one. It is a handy little tool.

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Glad to hear that it is working for you

[@maximush9811]

Do ya know the psi difference between the coolant and the exhaust inside that cooler, if any. I don't see how some of those parts keep together like they do around that exhaust.

[@jbjj860]

From an engineer, thank you

[@MrTonyharrell]

Speaking of engineers and tight spaces made me think of the 1990 Nissan 300Z twin turbo. If you put a sheet of notebook paper on the engine you could not close the hood. Exaggeration of course but not by much believe me.

[@steveharrington301]

👍

[@johnbucklerfarms]

How long will it take to burn out the Antifreeze?

[@robertmarincic5697]

The coolent will coat the exaust so it will smoke awhile till it is burned off

[@thewayidoit8895]

I've got some advice for you Andy, because I've been thinking. 1.) You should let those cows outside between milkings. I've seen all the poop you haul and I figure you could cut it down 30% by pasturing the cows. 2.) Feed them less TMR. Less in means less out and less poop to haul. They won't die! 3.) Hold back on their water. I saw a kid one time that had a new puppy. He told his girlfriend "don't give him any more water, he'll just pee more" SOUNDS GOOD - This kid made perfect sense. 4. Integrate some good ladies in your business decision making. I know 2 of your girls are working - driving, welding etc. You need some thinkers. Someone like in Congress. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, that Ocasio- Cortez girl or even the Stacy Plaskett - shes real sharp, I'll tell ya. NOW! (as ya say) If you are all worked up, please understand that everything above is crap. You do a great job Andy Hourigan. I know the algorithm loves good long comments. Have a Merry Christmas!

[@mfreund15448]

Your comment shows how little you know about farming and your arrogant attitude that you know more than Andy and his family. 1. If you let them outside, the field will turn to mud with the first rain and you will have an increase in scematic cell count in the milk. (Infection) 2,3. Less input to the cow and you will get less out of the cow and since the goal is increased milk production, you can see where this is counter productive. What makes you think that the girls are not involved in production decisions? At the very least, the wives are involved in how the farm is managed. As for you hero women, they have never had a career r where they are responsible for getting the bills paid, they only know how to spend other people’s money!!

[@thewayidoit8895]

@mfreund15448 You didn't read my whole comment. Go back and start reading at the word "Now!" What I said was ridiculous. I was feeding the algorithm. Andy does a great job and has all the bases covered! The politicians I mentioned are some of the worst in congress and would fail outside.

[@justinpatrick4251]

Which light were you using their Andy?

[@farmer_nk]

Guessing next video will be replacing the 7730 exhaust flex pipe

[@guetterfarm]

Forget the egr, and give it a weight loss😉. Over due

[@Ghis1964s]

Head-gasket. Gravity would be filling either the front or back cylinder, not really any in the center. Besides, gasket more often than not are gonna blow around the middle area of the engine-head. I hope it's not a head-gasket issue, but I'm afraid so.

[@Sam-f7d3l]

How many cows are u running

[@Adam_Poirier]

If you put in just the smallest amount of effort you could find out

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

We don’t run any cows

[@nicoquattro3950]

$1000 for a plastic panel? Pfffffff, Lamborghini prices right there. I get that, its a lot of money for the OEMs to even supply the older machines but it starts getting ridiculous. You should buy one of those kits to pressurize the cooling systems. Have one for my cars, and maybe there is one out there with all the common adapters for John Deere, CAT and what not cooling reservoirs. Or you can build one yourself. Its just a reservoir cap with an air connector, you plug in a small hand pump with a gauge, pump it up to 20psi or what and wait if the gauge is moving or it starts dripping somewhere. The hand pump, the hose and the connector in the cap have to be proper sealed of course. Then you know at least whats going on with the head gasket or cooling connections when the engine is cold. In case thats the last video before christmas, I wish you and everybody at the Hourigan Dairy a Merry Christmas.

[@x_Dude1]

What a piece of molded plastic can cost. ;)

[@dwightjackson3180]

Emission components are financial drain to the American farmer bank account

[@JoeFoley-s4d]

😀😀🚜🚜👍👍

[@steveboxum6734]

Engineers Have their work cut out for them for sure. As a tech it's always been an old saying that engineers would jump over 10 virgins to f#@k a tech 🤣😂

[@geesss8675]

How come you never have Bucko From Bucko Ag 2024 come over and spend quality time with him

[@135tp]

something designed strictly for ease of maintenance and repair would probably look a lot different

[@kevinrutt5949]

Don’t drop it lolo 😂

[@craigflatley7370]

🇨🇦👍

[@ronaldradtke8577]

Great stuff once again !! Merry Christmas to u n ur family n amazing team !! Looking for to 2025 !!! Remember The Big Man will be back into the Big White House where he belongs !!

[@joeryan1793]

Ok seriously. How many MAN hours do you have in this EGR job.

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

2 hours

[@BentTreeFarmPa]

Merry Christmas Andy, thanks for entertaining us all year! Dumb question, why don’t you RGR delete them when you have problems?

[@thewayidoit8895]

Andy, do you have the right to repair that green tractor? I din't want to see you in trouble on here.

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Sure

[@ckscottckscott4128]

I don't think they are that smart. Parts that are replaced alot are always behind stuff that don't need replacing.

[@markbell2454]

Just delete it

[@bloodboughtandreedeemed]

😂😂$1200 for a peice of plastic thats riduculous

[@taftamick54]

Weld the ends shut on that stupid EPA crap cooler and put it back on there... Send that new one back for a refund...

[@rogerschlitter5116]

I would never mess around doing that when a $1000 for parts on a $300,000 tractor would replicate the existing set up which has worked well for 11,000 hours.

[@Adam_Poirier]

Roger gets it. Thats exactly right. Not to mention there's no running away from this emissions stuff. So let's throw out a hypothetical and say that something catastrophic happens to the transmission on the 7730. Andy decides to send it to Deere to have them do it because they're busy. While the tractor is at the dealer getting the transmission repaired they happen to notice that the EGR cooler is deleted or modified now they're in a shitty spot because they're not supposed to even let it go anymore. Next thing you know you've got several thousand dollars tied up and going back-and-forth with them and potentially returning it to stock. You could've just left the tractor alone replaced the stupid thing and done with it

[@jwhitley101whitleyfarms9]

​@@Adam_PoirierBS we have no issues taking deleted equipment to any if the dealers here . I wouldn't do it under warranty it will void that but the rest of thats bs. I can have green,red,orange and blue fixed in the store, field or my shop.

[@Adam_Poirier]

@@jwhitley101whitleyfarms9 well consider yourself lucky because I have issues with it here lol

[@taftamick54]

@@Adam_Poirier I always weld em shut and put em right back on... Looks totally stock..except you're not sucking dirty diesel exhaust right back in to your cylinders just clean air and fuel...but yes not if it's still under warranty...

[@richardradawetz8788]

Delete the sob

[@joshwills5170]

Merry Christmas to you and your family

[@edwhite6250]

👍