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IllustrationBuild500Avant 528: dead rev counter, lying gauges, one faulty relay
The rev counter read zero, some warning lamps were dead, and engaging the diff lock made the temperature gauge drop to nothing. One faulty relay was behind all of it.
IllustrationBuild500Avant 528 won't start? Check the aux hydraulics lever first
My 528 will not crank if the aux hydraulics lever has been left on, and my kids leave it on every time they play in the cab. Check that lever before you suspect the battery.
IllustrationBuild500Demolishing a brick building inside a building with an Avant 528
Previous owners left a brick room standing inside one of our outbuildings. I took it down with the 528: pallet forks to push, bucket and grapple to clear.
Build500Renovating a gravel driveway with an Avant 528
I topped up our worn gravel drive with pea gravel, one bucket at a time: shuttle from the pile, tip in strips, back-drag flat. One tipper load turned into two.
Build500Why I bought an Avant 528
Ten tonnes of wood pellets a year, a hectare of hillside garden and a Massey Ferguson 35 that was always broken. The buying decision behind a 528, four years and 100 hours later.