Posted by Janicholson on July 29, 2021 at 05:52:56 from (24.240.46.228):
In Reply to: Worst ever 2? posted by johnlobb on July 29, 2021 at 05:02:55:
The difficulty here is not that they had one standout rotten egg, but that individual things in a model were underwhelming across the whole production. From very noticeable things like final drive bearings (as caterpillar guy points out) to the adoption of early wishful thinking expander disk brakes into the Letter series, to poor ergonomics on the standard configuration tractors, poor utility steering, easily boiled fuel, failure to license a good hitch design (fast hitch), teledepth components that were easily trashed, or failed from exposure, early draft control that didn't do much, all the way to the V-8 that just didn't fill its own hype, each of these were sore spots that had to be coped with, and were. The very popularity of IH equipment indicates they had competitive products and pricing. The big failure was failed management/leadership/engineering at the end of the 15XX day in the sun. Jim
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