What's an acceptable hour life for a 2166

[skydog]

Mine's 12 yrs old next May and has 225 hrs on it. I've maintained it well as far as lube cycles, sharp blades, etc.. Lately it just seems like it's showing it's age. I should have the deck set up by the dealer; just to get that back on par.

[CADplans]

Originally Posted by skydog

Mine's 12 yrs old next May and has 225 hrs on it. I've maintained it well as far as lube cycles, sharp blades, etc.. Lately it just seems like it's showing it's age. I should have the deck set up by the dealer; just to get that back on par.

Blasphemy!! You can do anything the dealer can do! There is nothing your friends here at OCC can not help you through,

IF,

We Get Photos!!!




Your statement of 12 years, is that since a rebuild? 1200s' were last made in 1980.

Or is it a different model?

[_DX3_]

Originally Posted by CADplans

Blasphemy!! You can do anything the dealer can do! There is nothing your friends here at OCC can not help you through,

IF,

We Get Photos!!!




Your statement of 12 years, is that since a rebuild? 1200s' were last made in 1980.

Or is it a different model?

It's a 2166, he revised his first post.

[CADplans]

I just looked up the tractor at tractordata.

They state 100 hour oil change intervals.

If that was followed, yea, the engine is gone.



My oil change intervals for air cooled engines are;

10-12 hours for splash lube (Kohler K engines)

25 hours for engines with a filter.

At that # of hours, I still worry if the grass is dry and dusty!! IMHO

[Vince_o]

Sky

Thats just a new version of a good old mower. It should last you much longer than 12 yrs. This said, I dont have a clue on what you or someone else has done with it. Its was like a 2500 or 3000$ machine, so its high quality.

I do my filtered machines every 50 hrs, I know what the book says, but the book aint looking at this red dusty clay either. My K series I do 2 times a year. Ill put around 50 hrs on my cubs a year, according to the hour meter.

At our shop we will look over the machine and give you a quote on it for 30 bucks. Il do a leak down test on the eng for 45 bucks and let you know if you have any ware on the cylinders.

Most times when I do this most people will let me just go a head and fix it, some will tell me to order the parts for them and they will fix it them selves. Id rather fix it cause the shop gets the labor, but the parts dept is stil making us money by the parts sale. And the cust is happy, MOST TIMES , and come back or bring us more.

For us this is our big off season, we dont get much for snow blowers and with out a major ice storm no gen sets or many saws to work on. All the fire wood guys know how to fix there own stuff. I need the happy home owers that bend bars!

[Merk]

I have an off topic orange tractor with 1020 hours on it. It was new in 1996. I expect to put anothe 1000 hours on it without any major problems. You may have to do some fine tuning to your Cub. That Cub should be good for another 10 years with no major problems with a little TLC.