So the story goes, im trying to buy a 1974 2255 from the father of one of my friends from college. They bought the tractor brand new in 74 and it broke a crank at 36 hours. White refused to warranty it so $1500 dollars later they put a new crank in it and ran it up until I think they said 1992 when it broke another crank at 34XX hours. It has sat ever since and the guy has refused to sell it to anybody. I went over to their farm for the first time a few months ago and I started giving the guy a hard time about selling me that tractor but figured I wasnt making any headway with him. Well I guess a few weeks later my buddy was helping his dad around the farm when he started talking about maybe selling me that tractor which shocked my buddy because his dad always said he would never sell that tractor to anybody. All that being said, what would be causing that crank to break? Was there an inherent problem with the block/crank in that first generation of 3208's. And the big question, would it even be worth screwing with trying to fix that engine or would it be cheaper to buy a good running engine from a New Holland Combine? I only offered him $2000 for the tractor so I have plenty of wiggle room on the fix and repair phase.