"Great Value. You need good mechanical ability to build from a Chinese manual. It's a pain to start when cold because the glow plugs systems sucks. The block heater did the trick."

"My Kama TS354C has about 540 hours now. It is equipped with a Leon Mfg. front-end loader, model 500. Overall it has been a little workhorse and I have never had any problems with the powertrain. Recently I have had problems with the TPH and the hydraulic pump. I replaced the stock pump with a Prince PTO pump and have never looked back. I have had recurring problems with the ball joints; they are a poor-quality casting, but then again, those parts may not have been engineered (or copied?) for the added weight of the FEL. Its build quality does not approach that of my '49 Oliver, but what does?"

"The dealer did not prepare the tractor--loose bolts, clutch not adjusted, wrong oil weight (I think everything was 90 sae), poor rubber quality, fan belt and top radiator hose had to be replaced, speedometer & hr meter quit after 9 hrs, fuse block had to be replace, blows oil out hydraulic fill hole, tie rod end had to be replaced."

"Let me preface by saying the only other tractor I have owned was a Ford 8N. Compared to that, this thing is the best thing since sliced bread. The 354X is a 3 cylinder direct injection. My dealer, Chip at Artrac told me that the direct injection was the way to go and I would never have any trouble starting. And he was right. Last winter it fired up at 10 degrees about as well as at 70 degrees. No preheating, no radiator hose heater no help whatsoever. The only real problem I have had with it is the injection pump went out last fall. I feel I am partly to blame for that. I should have changed the oil in it right away. The oil smelled really bad when I did. But, I put a new pump on it myself and it started right up and off we go. The fit and finish are not up to the domestic tractors. You can see the weld seams in the body work, they use cheap fuses, stuff like that. But, for the money difference between the name brands and this one, I can live with it. Parts seem to be readily available. This KAMA shared the engine with the same size Jinma model, it is called a TY395E-1. However it supposedly has a heavier drive train than a Jinma. So, you can get parts from a number of sources. In short if you can do a little mechanical work on one of these yourself I would not hesitate to buy a KAMA. "