S. M. Henning wrote:

I would first recommend a tractor with a cast iron engine or at
least cast iron sleeves like the Kohler. They will last forever.

Not quite forever...mine crapped out after 7 years. Kohler wanted something
like $1600 for a new one. I bought a Tecumseh for $600+. More HP too...

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"dadiOH" wrote:

Not quite forever...mine crapped out after 7 years. Kohler wanted something
like $1600 for a new one. I bought a Tecumseh for $600+. More HP too...

That is very unusual for a cast iron Kohler to fail if you changed the
oil and kept the oil topped up. I had a cast iron Kohler on a tractor
that I used in fields to chop brush and an occasional rock. I mowed 2
acres of grass for 20 years with it. I mowed an embankment where I had
to get off the tractor and walk on the flat so that I could hold the
tractor on the embankment so it wouldn't fall over. I plowed snow with
it. I even plowed the road in front of our house and the neighbors
houses with it. It was still going strong when I sold it. It had
replaced a Tecumseh that didn't even finish the second season before it
got a warped head and was junk. There are good cast iron Tecumseh's but
mine wasn't cast iron.

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