Greetings from Kansas
 

New to the site and proud owner of a 782. It was given to me with the condition of getting it running again. Original motor ran out of oil and locked up. So they had a local guy put a new 25 Hp Kohler V-twin in it. Ran for a few hours but then the hydro stopped working and then it sat in the shed for the last 15 years. I brought it into my garage and got it to fire up easy enough but it wouldn't move as they stated but I could hear a faint whine. Drained the oil and removed the filter that looked to be from the factory. It was so plugged up no wonder the poor thing couldn't move. New filter and oil and i was back in business. Only parts its missing is the grill and side panels which they say are around somewhere. Came with the 44 in mower deck and a 1A tiller. Learned a lot from reading here so thanks guys! Got the mower deck back into shape and just need to get the tiller freshened up.

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Welcome to OCC! Congrats on your 782, they are nice machines.

welcome. your gonna love that little wonder of a tractor. its an awesome machine.

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Welcome, I am from just on the other side of the line just south of KC, Mo.

Kansas is a big state, where are from? I lived in Greensburg and Dodge City from 79 to 92.



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Randy

Welcome to the forum. I'm also just across the Missouri state line, east of Lee's Summit.

Hello and welcome! Jeff city my over here!

Welcome to the site! What part of is are you from? Looks like you fell into ahellova deal!

Thanks for the warm welcome guys. I live by Hesston where I work for MF, the other color red lol. Its a great tractor and I have say way better than some newer ones. It has a couple dings in the hood but overall pretty good. The paint is kinda faded but for now I plan to leave it as it is and maybe full restoration down the road. I did some painting on the deck and around the battery box to slow down the rust. Trying to get it nice looking without the new paint sticking out too much. Here is what it looks like now.

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Your 782 is looking good!