That is totally up to you , It is your money not mine . Today people are plum nuts on old tractor prices ( sorry my thoughts ) I spent a lot of years buying OLD Dead tractors and breathing new life into them , But i did not spend thousands of dollars in buying them . I bought many out of what was called the dead row . Many did not run long enough to make it thru the ring under there own power and would die in line waiting but they would run. Most were gassers with a weak battery and a non working charging system . So that was not a big deal to repair and add in a rebuilt battery and fix the simple items , many had the T/A's out so here again not a big deal when you are set up to do the job and have the equipment and tools for the job along with the parts on hand . Many of the tractors were bought for under a 1000 bucks . So you paid say 750 for the tractor add in 250 trucking each now ya have a grand in it to get it home then a 30 dollar rebuild on the gen. add in 10 dollar new reg. a 25 dollar rebuilt battery do a tune up adjust the valves change the oil and filters and test drive in the field and find out if it can go down the road or in needs more . So you find the T/A is out so ya split it and you stuff in a rebuilt T/A a clutch pressure plate reface the flywheel go thru the MCV and you throw in a two or three year warranty on the T/A with the tractor and NOW you resell and sell they did . Did i ever mess up on buying a tractor only to find out that ya bougth a PIG wearing lipstick , yep i did did i loose money yep i did , it was all part of the education of buying old tractors. But i did not loose as much as the person that just had to have that tractor . Now do i want one of these new tractors , NOPE , will the new tractors last as long as the OLD , nope don't thing so . Got a couple of friends that came into BIG money over night and Bought NEW tractors and NEW pick ups the NEW tractors are seeing a lot of time INDOORS like at the dealer ships and my one friend's NEW Chase I H/ what ever they are now would get it back and before the week was up it was back at the dealership broke down again and again to the point that when they figured out what was wrong and went to get the parts to fix it it was going to take 90 to 120 days for the parts to come in from three different countrys . So they traded him out of it and into a newer one costing him MORE and guess what , it was no better as he did not have it 6 months and it has been breaking down over and over again. But his 1086 that is a total rag keeps on running and his 756 with 14000 hours still runs maybe not well but it still runs with minimum problems. I will never tell a guy what to buy i will say what i like and what i will buy because it is my money and if something goes wrong then i am the one fixen my own if i tell you to buy this or that and it turns out to be JUNK then i am the horses behind . Doing a rebuild on a 361 or 407 is not and engine for the novas doing a T/A is not a plug and play deal either and rebuilding and MCV is not a matter of pulling out the old springs and installing new . You see this on here time and time again . Then finding a machine shop that will do the machine work properly is the next quest , ya never line HONE the block line BORING only then it is wise to use the oversized sleeves and do the cylinder bore off the center line of the crank not of the cylinder bore due to core shift . Several times to correct core shift the hole in question had to be bored out and a repair sleeve installed and rebored to bring that hole back in line . Sleeve install is something else as sometimes due to the heavy PRESS FIT you will get wrinkling in the sleeve and have to ridgid hone to remove the wrinkling and each piston must be fit to the hole . Head work on a 361 -407must be done correctly if you want a good cold starter. and you don't want the valves hitting the pistons as things are vary tight in this area.
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