Posted by DaninKansas on August 08, 2013 at 08:12:39 from (24.248.193.103):
In Reply to: 86 series tractors posted by Dave H (MI) on August 08, 2013 at 06:52:41:
Biggest thing to look out for are high hours and the turbos being turned up. It was real easy to turn up a 1086 and treat it like a 1586 and a lot of people did that. I've seen a lot of 1486s turned up to 180-190 hp - that's probably where people got the idea they had a "weak" transmission.
The other issue is these tractors came out just before and during the farm crisis of the 1980s - lot of maintenance was skipped trying to save money during that time frame.
Really nice ones will go more than your stated price range:
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