As others have said the bad old days were just that. 50's and 60's? Average car was 1000-2000 miles oil change. Plugs points and condenser every 12K. Average engine life before about 80-100K before rings and a valve job. New car 7500 or so for an oil change and the life of the engine on average is over 200,000 miles. Tune up every 100,000 miles.
Get over it. Heck 100 years ago cars and tractors were a novelty. Times change. Wife's grandfather farmed until 1953 when he retired. NEVER OWNED A TRACTOR! He farmed with horses until he retired. Didn't own a car till after WWII. And no, this wasn't some share cropper down south. He was a Norwegian who immigrated to the US as a teen, settle in MN and farmed.
What are you going to do when parts are NLA for that old 4020 or 806? As the collector markets dries up you are seeing fewer parts for some tractors now. When parts to rebuild that old JD/AC/MF/IH engine get so expensive it's no longer economically feasible to run it it's done. And really? IF you have a 5,000 tractor are you really going to dump 10K or more into repairs?
As far as the youth of today actually repairing stuff? Not economically feasible. When a shop has to charge 120 an hours to cover overhead and make a profit? You replace parts. Too expensive to fix em here. So replace here and send that thing off to a 3rd world country that pays a buck a day to rebuild it. If you can buy a new alternator for 250 and it takes 60 bucks for the parts to rebuild the old one you still gotta figure 3 hours of labor to clean, rebuild and test. Add in another hour to trouble shoot, R&I the alternator. So that's 100 bucks for a rebman, plus an hour, or 250 for new plus an hour or 4 hours plus parts. So install a reman runs 220 with labor, new 370 or rebuild in house? 520 parts and labor. It isn't because kids are too stupid to fix something. It isn't because of the money either. Most shops would make more rebuilding. But if it cost too much to repair then owners just buys another car. So the shop has to keep costs down.
Heck, look at it. Some small engines have a low oil shutdown. Just the companies protecting the buyer from themselves.
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