Should I buy the 782??

Prices are climbing as inventory is low....but then you guys in Canada seem to get screwed on price anyway. As you describe is appears to be the typically neglected...maybe not abused but....

You seem to really want one....soooo....and at your prices you'll need to plan on putting a few hundred into it...BTW a starter ain't no $200 so who's blowin smoke here?????

Keep lookin...but you do what you want.


Just a thought......For someone to have owned something for 11 years the owner seems to know NOTHING about it, not deck size, and specificly not about a motor that they paid nearly $2000 and maybe more to have it installed...I'm always suspect of the ignorant...you pay $2K for something and I'll bet you'll know all about it.


Scott

[Mountain Heritage]

Well, you kinda ....the deal kinda seems too good to be true? Unless the guy really doesn't know much about the tractor and perhaps more money to spend on things than he knows what to do with? The add's been posted since the first part of April, asking price for the tractor, front blade, and plain jane yard cart...$950. He told me in the e-mail he would take $500.00 for it.
It has the new motor in it a while ago, decent rubber, has a few little dings in it, but what tractor that age doesn't?
782 for sale.jpg

It just seems too good to be true??

Originally Posted by Mountain Heritage

Well, you kinda ....the deal kinda seems too good to be true? Unless the guy really doesn't know much about the tractor and perhaps more money to spend on things than he knows what to do with? The add's been posted since the first part of April, asking price for the tractor, front blade, and plain jane yard cart...$950. He told me in the e-mail he would take $500.00 for it.
It has the new motor in it a while ago, decent rubber, has a few little dings in it, but what tractor that age doesn't?
Attachment 3282

It just seems too good to be true??

Is this the same one or a different one?????

Scott


$500??????? much better.

[Mountain Heritage]

That is the picture of the tractor, engine is also in the tractor (M18). Yes the price of $500.00 is for all three....just scratching my head a bit that it might be too good to be true, but hey, maybe I found a "deal" for once? I don't know how many hours are on it, he hasn't told me yet

Originally Posted by Mountain Heritage

That is the picture of the tractor, engine is also in the tractor (M18). Yes the price of $500.00 is for all three....just scratching my head a bit that it might be too good to be true, but hey, maybe I found a "deal" for once? I don't know how many hours are on it, he hasn't told me yet

The hub caps in the one pictured is worth about $180 alone...you better run and catch that deal at $500.
Scott

[johncub7172]

I would go see it in person and hear run and drive before I fork over 500. bucks. But with the little info. given, with the push blade it may be worth the money. Seeing the machine in person makes all the diffrence in my mine. As when I spotted my 71 for sale......a good look over and I knew for sure I had something good. Good luck!

[ihnick]

yeah really. that looks like a nice machine. half the time the hub caps are brown or scratched to crap.

Just a futher thought-

I have said that it appears that the life of a good twin well maitained is about 1800 hours and this must be true as I just blew the motor in my 1811 a couple of weeks ago. Motor was getting tired anyway...now that I'm mowing with my low hour KT17 in my other tractor I see that the KT will run circles around the tired M18. The M18 has about 1850 hours on it, lost the gov and a valve.

I have a good M18 case with about 526 hours, it has bad bores but a good gov and crank and rods. So I'm using the jugs off the blown M18 and having the valve cut and I'm just going to rering the pistons. The cost of rings, head gaskets and crank seals is $125, the valve job is $100, and about $25 for the studs, so about $250 with me doing the work. Otherwise a complete rebuild will cost about $800 with me doing the work. I'm hearing others complain of Kohler prices going up...your cost up there may be around $350 for the same parts and work.

You mentioned nothing of the hours on the motor....they don't last forever and it gets expensive. Be selective.

Scott

[Matt G.]

Originally Posted by murphycc

BTW a starter ain't no $200 so who's blowin smoke here?????

Nobody. If you buy an OEM KOHLER starter from CC, it's ~$190.

[Mountain Heritage]

Man...this sucks!

I need to figure out if it is worth the 500 mile drive to look at it myself, of take the guys word for it and hope the pictures are correct, send them with my driver to pick it up (making sure he/she gets the right tractor), and hope...I guess worst case...I need to get my $500.00 bucks back out of it somehow by selling it again?