Re: Used New Holland 8970 Purchase??

Posted by Jonboy on February 17, 2005 at 07:32:40 from (165.121.131.98):

In Reply to: Re: Used New Holland 8970 Purchase?? posted by JHocke on February 17, 2005 at 04:23:05:

Hhmm, sounds to me like somebody hotrodded it. They are incredible pulling tractors, this last year at my local field days it was an 8970 that took the win in the 30,000lb free for all, but it defienatly wasn't stock. Any time you squeeze alot more power out of an engine, it's life is shortened, and in this case it was atleast 75ptohp over, and you said it wasn't phazed at all, so it probably has alot more. Now, just about every tractor will have alittle more than it's supposed to, but not that much. Take for example, the guy I work for has a white 2-155 thats rated for 155ptohp and it was put on a dyno and it showed 168ptohp, and that was the way it came from the factory, thats normal, but you won't find 75hp plus.
From what you've said so far, I'd pass on this rig and look for another, theres a pile of those 8970's around. Look in a Fastline magazine and you will find many. Do a search on the Fastline website from the link below.
hope this helps,

• fastline.com

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