“I found this tractor in Lenoir North Carolina and really liked it, all though it needed rewired new gauges, complete tune up and a faint knock. I thought the knock was a broke rocker arm, plus it was decent priced and I had never heard of a 2606, so I bought it and brought it back to Tennessee not knowing what to expect, I started tearing it down, well it wasn’t a broke rocker. It spun a bearing the head needed reworked and the intake and exhaust manifold needed resurfaced and carb rebuild, but on the bright side it had new tires. Had the crank turned rebuilt the engine changed all the fluids and installed new clutch and started it, it ran like new. So started the body work and to my surprise the whole tractor was yellow under the red and on each side of the hood said DOT when I sanded it. After that I began the painting process, also I found it very difficult to find parts for 2606 you could find them for 606. Researching the web didn’t offer much other than it was a rare industrial tractor, and found some place that said only about 1500 were made, it was missing a emblem on one side and could not find another one anywhere, so I had to have it custom made. I have grown to like this tractor very much since I have bought it and bought several parts from Steiner to restore it back to what it was in its glory days.”
Chris Brown
Greenville, Tennessee
April Cook says
The new paint job looks great! I love that bright red color. I can imagine that it would be hard to find parts for older tractors. can you substitute original parts with newer ones, or would you have to redo everything? Thanks for sharing!
Chris says
A lot of international parts will interchange with one and another most of mine I kept orignal and rebuild everything except for the color
Davina says
I really really like your tractor, you have a lot of time in it and you did a really good job!!
Dan J Cotten says
The 2606 and the 606 were basically the same tractor. The 2 designation was for the industrial and they were painted yellow. However Harvester would paint them another color at the purchasers request. The 6 cylinder engines were used in other applications. I own a 606 and i enjoy it very much especially the smooth sound. A very heavy duty tractor. Parts are not that hard to find on the web or e-bay.
Chris says
The only real problem I had was the tractor had fire crater pistons in it instead of step pistons they was a little harder to find and cost a lot more and could not find the 2606 emblems anywhere which I had them made, my neighbor helped me rebuild the engine in our spare time when we got all the parts back from the machine shop like you said they do run really smooth I like the sound of the six cylinder I am wanting to find factory hydraulic lever set up to run a baler the crazy thing is it has a factory bracket that mounts on the radiator and has a horn thought that was funny and left it
Steve says
I have one and I pull it in 7 8 and occasionally 9 thousand lb class does really well