Selectboard authorizes up to $3,000 to test/replace tractor ECU
Dec 23, 2025
After a highway supervisor presented repair quotes showing an ECU cost of $1,320.95 and a full harness/ECU job at roughly $10,906.94, the board authorized an expenditure not to exceed $3,000 to replace the engine control unit if testing shows it is the fault.
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Highway supervisor Mark Robinson (identified in the record) described diagnostic findings and repair quotes for a tractor’s electrical/engine-control system, telling the board the engine controller (ECU) quoted at $1,320.95 might resolve recurring fault codes but that replacing both harnesses, ECU and labor would total about $10,906.94. "So the engine controller, the ECU, is $1,320.95," he reported.
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