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Originally Posted by john hall

Pretty certain some model of Deere did, seem to remember a long time friend that was a Deere mechanic talking about the exploding Kohlers. It wasn't long afterwards when Deere seemed to migrate toward Kawasaki. don't know if that was Deere's motivation but a lot of pissed off Cadet owners applauded the switch and jumped ship. Similar to what happened with the IH strike in the 70's. IH and Cadet are basically gone here.

Originally Posted by Mcamp

I believe the series II came out in 1984.I have a 1985 782 that came with a series II.All IH built came with a series I eng.

Doing a bit of reading, it looks like JD started putting Series II in the 317 (built from ‘79 until ‘83) in ‘82.

Depending on who you ask, they offered a retrofit kit to put an Onan in either before the Series II came out or after the 318 came out in ‘83 with the Onan 18hp.

I suppose I’d be pretty pissed too if my $11,000 tractor (in today’s dollars) needed a new $2000 engine after 3 years or less of running.