Very plausable and I won't argue that some will do better than 1800 hours or 2000 hours, but not the rule. There is some expectation of a life cycle, why would one care how many miles on a car?? but when buying that's the first thing everyone asks.

It's just been my observation that most never make it to 1800 hours. The M18 in my 1811 that went was tired, very tired, my KT17 runs circles around it. The KT was a low hour motor and it wasn't till I got it running in a tractor was I able to compare to a M18, I can only imagine what power a fresh M18 must have.

Scott