FWIW:
There are other options for oil filter mountings.
There are adapters that bolt to the block, so there are no oil cooler lines
to mess with on the kohler engines.
I have 4, M-18 engines, 3 of them have the screw on filter on the block.
Only one, has remote oil filter lines.
The 782's I have, both have the block mounted filter and I use motocrap FL400 filter.
There are some who don't like the design as they are a little messy when changing oil, if you don't use a curved trough under the filter to direct the oil into a catch can.
---Different strokes for different folks.
