Kioti NX-series Claims 20,000 hours before engine overhaul

[MinnesotaEric]

The tractor would be a pile of crap around a still running engine?

That recipe worked for Honda.

19,942 hrs to go. Guess I should amend the will.

Leave the Kioti a trust fund so somebody can restore it?

 

[RickB]

Very impressive. I would say that 20K hours is beyond what most on TBN will ever put on a single tractor.

Or all the hours most will ever put on tractors in total.

 

[Threepoint]

Love my NX, but I'm wondering how Kioti backs up the 20K hr claim. The video say it's for the NX Final Tier 4 engine, but to do an actual block test would take 2.3 yrs, running continuously 24/7. Do you suppose they've even had a prototype Final Tier 4 long enough for that? My guess is extrapolation, based on wear measurements after a much shorter period.

 

[sd455dan]

Wonder if anyone has asked Kioti corporate that exact question?? if they haven't and this is a (projected #) they will be wearing egg on the face IMO

But from the way most Kiotis seem to be built and run- my guess is they did do long term prototype runs on more than just one unit...
Computer simulations are fine and short term wear testing but nothing beats real world high load and extreme condition long term testing to prove a design.

 

[sd455dan]

That recipe worked for Honda.



:laughing::laughing: That is so true, same or even more so with old Subaru's in our area

 

[DarkBlack]

The video basically claims the engine can go 3x longer than the 'competition'.
That's some pretty brazen marketing hype.

 

[TJP89]

I wish fueling the CK was as easy as the NX

On the hours, I have a 1952 International Harvester Farmall H, main farm tractor, now 63 years old. Doesn't have an hour meter on it, but I would bet its got a lot. Fired up today in 20 degrees and ran like a song.