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My 2004 254 Nortrac Jinma went down after 393 hrs. in 2006. Before I used the tractor, I made up a list of what and when things would fail and when. I am a retired heavy equip. mech. and made some pretty good guesses. I wrote down 400 hrs on the engine to fail. 393 is fairly close. When working...

1st post. Just been watching. I have a 254 Jinma I bought one year ago from Northern Tractor. I work it hard and it has 210 hrs. I love the tractor, but notice that most of you seem to report that few things break. The items that have broken so far. The gauge in the large fuel cap, the pilot...