[jimbob200521]

Originally Posted by J-Mech

Ryan I appreciate your candor. And FWIW I see your point.

Let me see if I can explain why I believe that Kohler says what it does about the engine. This is pure speculation on my part, and I am not speaking for Kohler. I have worked for dealerships in my past and been part of equipment "upgrades" and even spent time in training for new machines. IH combines specifically.

When a company like Kohler finds a problem with their product, there several ways to deal with it.

They can:
Let the dealer deal with the issue.
Incite a recall.
Or put out a service bulletin on it.

Being that the original manual says to shut it off from a low idle setting, and then a supplement was added saying to shut it off from mid throttle, my guess is Kohler knew some engines had issues with dieseling. Instead of calling in a bunch of motors for a "non major" issue at a HUGE expense to Kohler. They instead found out that running the engine at a little higher idle gave the engine enough velocity to burn off the fuel still coming into the engine as the fuel cut-off did it's job. Too much of a lag time, too hot on engine, idle set too fast...... whatever the issue, Kohler didn't care because it cost far less to print a couple million one page supplements than it did to fix the issue. It pleased the customer, the complaints went away..... problem solved. Can it be fixed? I'm convinced it can. I am also as deeply convinced that Kohler didn't want to spend the money on 1 million customers complaints when they could just tell them to shut it off at a little higher throttle setting and it worked. Just my theory, and IMHO it fits the bill well.

See, now THAT makes sense!

Originally Posted by red56turbo

Very well said Ryan. I think alot of us agree with ya on this. And here we are again.