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Looking at a Ford 1710 fwd with a 770 loader. Tractor has 3500 hours on it, it's a 1986 model. That seems to be a lot of hours for one of these small engines. Runs very good, looks great (new paint), but the hours scare me off. Anybody have experience with one of these and advice on engine life? Thanks

Ford 1710
New Holland Tractors
Replies 2 Post by Troyinamery

My gut feeling is that it is priced to high also. I called last night and talked to the guy and it's got 2100 hrs on it and that seems like a lot for a 6 year old tractor. So I will keep looking. Thanks!

Ford 1320
New Holland Tractors
Replies 7 Post by Troyinamery

Well, it went high for me. I was hoping for a steal but it went for $13,000. And it was a gear drive. Mint condition though. Everything at this auction went high, the guy had very clean equipment and got a premium for it.

TC29 Used price
New Holland Tractors
Replies 7 Post by Troyinamery

I had an LX188 do the same thing to me 2 years ago. Mine was a 1998 model. It cranked fine, had good spark, but wouldn't fire. What it turned out to be is the camshaft gear on this engine is plastic and is riveted to the camshaft. Well, the gear had broken off. When I took it to the dealer, they knew right away what it was and replaced it with a forged camshaft/gear combo. They even did it for no cost even though it was 3 years old already. They said all LX188's built with that plastic gear will have that happen to them at some point. I don't know when the change was made in the engine to the new camshaft. Hope this helps.

LX188 wont start
John Deere Tractors
Replies 3 Post by Troyinamery