Levi: Those are old tractors, and old tractors any breed can pull stunts like this. In fact you put enough hours on and they will do it long before they are 30 years old.
My IH 1066 had to have engine done at 8 years from new, but it also had 10,000 hours on it. My Farmall 560D broke rim off sleeves, sucked sleeve down, when piston came back up two of them came through the block in 1978, and at 11,000 hours. Pistons and sleeves had been replaced at roughly 9,600 hours. This happened because I went cheap on that piston-sleeve replacement. The guy I hired to do it found a cheap kit, he was cheap, but he also wasn't very good at his work.
These tractors, any make do wear out, and if they do it prematurely, there are one of two causes, .005% of the time they are a lemon, the rest is poor maintainence.
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