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For those of you that didn't read the drama and excitement on my restoration of DeereZilla that climaxed with the discovery of a scored crankshaft in the K181 you can catch that here: http://www.mytractorforum.com/showthread.php?t=143035
I've searched around trying to find another horizontal shaft Kohler to drop in with no luck (for reasonable money anyway). There's a 12 HP locally but the hydraulic pump mounts on studs in the head and I didn't feel like swapping them over. So after some CL searching I found and brought home this prize:
S/N makes it a 1970. PO claimed good motor (but so did the PO of DeereZilla) but this guy is a mechanic, plus he threw in the snowblower I posted in another thread. After a couple hours of turning wrenches:
Popped the oil pan and the crank looks good on this one. I think Plan B is now to use the frame from this one and transfer a lot of the shiny bits from DeereZilla over and part out the rest. At least that's today's plan...
I've searched around trying to find another horizontal shaft Kohler to drop in with no luck (for reasonable money anyway). There's a 12 HP locally but the hydraulic pump mounts on studs in the head and I didn't feel like swapping them over. So after some CL searching I found and brought home this prize:

S/N makes it a 1970. PO claimed good motor (but so did the PO of DeereZilla) but this guy is a mechanic, plus he threw in the snowblower I posted in another thread. After a couple hours of turning wrenches:

Popped the oil pan and the crank looks good on this one. I think Plan B is now to use the frame from this one and transfer a lot of the shiny bits from DeereZilla over and part out the rest. At least that's today's plan...