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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HSVSkidSteer" data-source="post: 74498" data-attributes="member: 9876"><p>Well...I'm happy that I bought it cheaply enough. I am going to go over the entire undercarriage and replace any loose bearings once spring has past. If you run the machine until the idlers fall off, you wreck the idler and increase your repair by about $300.00. The turbo was some bad luck but it appears that a line had been plugged sometime in the past to make the turbo run full time to deliver more power, this increase the wear on the component. I'm just very happy that my 13 year old son who was operating it when the turbo let go, got it shut down before it spit out all of the oil and wrecked the motor! I have a friend who just purchased a 257B3 with similar hours but a 2010 model, he paid $20,000.00 more but has a bit of warranty left. I can fix a fair bit of stuff for $20,000.00</p></blockquote><p></p>