Re: International 1586 or 5488

Posted by Cliff Neubauer on February 21, 2004 at 07:09:29 from (69.18.16.61):

In Reply to: International 1586 or 5488 posted by phil on February 20, 2004 at 18:02:23:

I would go with the 5488 hands down. We have a 5488 and a 1086 and the 5488 is all around a better tractor. If you buy a 5488 make sure it has had the tranny updates done, most have by now but it is about $6,000 to do them if it hasn't. I honestly can't think of one thing I like better about our 1086 than our 5488. We paid $11,700 for our 5488 at an auction last year with 6,400 hours with duals and decent tires. We put new tires (changed from 20.8x38 to 18.4x42) on it last spring then last fall it spun a main bearing so we put a reman engine in it and we are planning on painting it this spring. After we paint it we will still only have about $20,000 in it and two years before we bought it it had $5,600 spent on the rear end. I used our 5488 to pull our bean planter last spring and it was a pleasure to run even for 20 hours a day, especially compared to the 1066 it replaced.

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