NW KS/ SC ID | wrathchild - 11/21/2023 18:45
I would mildly dispute the bulletproof transmission, guy I know has an 8670 that's about to get its second transmission replacement/rebuild at 14k hours. I wouldn't consider that a lifespan to brag about, but it has been used for pushing silage so not exactly an easy life.
If it's clean and you can get an idea of history it wouldn't scare me at all. But 30 years and 10k hours is a lot of time for problems to start building up if it hasn't been taken care of. They're really nice tractors, and I would love to own one, but not really an exception to the rule that maintenance means more than color at that age.
Do you know the oil and filter brands and frequency of oil changes? how often it was calibrated? A good friend is a NH dealer and he aid his one customer had one killed by 6K hours, but sucked on maintenance. cheap oil, ran low, rarely changed filters, never calibrated. Meanwhile his genesis customer with the best maintenance program has over 30,000 hours on his 8870, original everything except engine OHed once. calibrates yearly and changes oil no less than every other year, filters yearly I believe. ton baler last 10 years too.
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Ford/New Holland Genesis tractor
