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CK30 FEL/BH
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Hey Cabin-K. I know someone just like you. He was an A-C man too. I think he has a real thing for orange paint. I'm sure that explains the CK-30. Anyway, he had the old WD-45, fixed it up, painted it, put on a chrome stack, etc. In his younger days he was a real go-getter; fixed and used a lot of older equipment (much to his wife's amusement sometimes). As he got older and more worldly, he transformed to more of a gentleman farmer than a sod-busting pioneer. That's when he bid farewell to his trusty WD and picked up the Kioti. Your story anything like that???
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After years of working in the equipment industry and being a hot rod lover, I'm also on board with the 3 to 3.5 K mile or 100 hour program, My 77 chev, crew dually one ton has 682K plus almost 683K miles on her,,, and during an off the line foot race with a new mustang I finally popped something loose and have a very slight bottom end noise... keep in mind, this is an OLD one ton truck with a flat bed so she also happened to have 2 tons of hay on board. Which for the engine/tranny combo I run is not a big deal... and yes, it was dumb as heck, but I put my money where my mouth was and whipped the crap out of the mustang,,, (thank GOD the guy had no idea how to shift that new car or he wouldn't beat me royally) But it was worth it and I read my apponant right.... anyhow, my point is, MAINTENANCE< MAINTENANCE< MAINTENANCE!!! Maintenance is cheap, not many rigs can say they will see that many miles with out maintenance. Until the day I did that, this truck had never ever broke down on me or ever once left me questioning it's reliability. I've always been able to just hop in and go at the drop of a hat. And I don't know if there is a feeling so frustrating as getting in your vehicle or tractor and turning the key and not having it run right,, or die right in the middle of doing something, especially when you really need it. 
House tractors like my shibaura 2643 should be done once a year or every 250,,,, I really don't use it much and maybe put 19 hours a year on her lately,,,, but tractors attract moisture. You have to get rid of it,,,,, and leaving old filters in just contaminates the new fluid.
Our big hay tractors,,, (I do all the maintenance for commercial hay growers, and every one has their own thing, But the one outfit that farms some of the roughest ground, and has the best reliabilty factors is the one that farms 800 acres here locally,
I change out his filters every 100 hours,, or about 5 to 12 times a summer (depending on the unit). His rigs work in heavy dust and dirt and get fuel that comes in from mobile and gravity feed shop tanks from the various locations he has hay feilds.
Plus, we never know what kind of stuff can be in the bottom of the tanks on the delivery trucks,,, So we don't just do oil and air,,,, fuel is also SUPER important and often the most neglected. When you figure the cost of a fuel pump or worn/clogged injectors, let me tell ya, fuel filters are dirt cheap.
Back when I had a commercial tractor repair shop, the two most common things we saw was neglect and overuse/ over loading on compacts causing 95% of all the failures. None of which end up cheap.
Just my two bits.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of the cure.
Paula
House tractors like my shibaura 2643 should be done once a year or every 250,,,, I really don't use it much and maybe put 19 hours a year on her lately,,,, but tractors attract moisture. You have to get rid of it,,,,, and leaving old filters in just contaminates the new fluid.
Our big hay tractors,,, (I do all the maintenance for commercial hay growers, and every one has their own thing, But the one outfit that farms some of the roughest ground, and has the best reliabilty factors is the one that farms 800 acres here locally,
I change out his filters every 100 hours,, or about 5 to 12 times a summer (depending on the unit). His rigs work in heavy dust and dirt and get fuel that comes in from mobile and gravity feed shop tanks from the various locations he has hay feilds.
Plus, we never know what kind of stuff can be in the bottom of the tanks on the delivery trucks,,, So we don't just do oil and air,,,, fuel is also SUPER important and often the most neglected. When you figure the cost of a fuel pump or worn/clogged injectors, let me tell ya, fuel filters are dirt cheap.
Back when I had a commercial tractor repair shop, the two most common things we saw was neglect and overuse/ over loading on compacts causing 95% of all the failures. None of which end up cheap.
Just my two bits.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of the cure.
Paula
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By the way, great choice on the CK 30, especially if you got that manual tranny model. A brute tough little tractor! I used to sell and rent them out and they always survived the beatings rentors & first time tractor owners gave them.
If you need filters let me know, $35 (includes shipping in Cont'l USA) for hydro, oil and fuel filter packages, while I have them. These are Kioti OEM's not after market. I have a shed full of tractor stuff I need to part with.
If you need filters let me know, $35 (includes shipping in Cont'l USA) for hydro, oil and fuel filter packages, while I have them. These are Kioti OEM's not after market. I have a shed full of tractor stuff I need to part with.