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Originally Posted by Cubcadet_107
Wow they really hacked up the frame to fit that engine in! 
Guess you can't do much about it now short of locating an original Kohler and completely cutting up the mods, and trying to re-weld it back to original with the proper steel.
That engine looks like it came from a Massey Ferguson tractor. It has the right paint color, and you can see that the gas tank is turned the wrong way. Originally the engine would have been mounted sideways in the tractor it came from, to run a belt drive. Definitely not something I've seen before!
Unfortunately the original engine would have determined whether it is a 70 or 100, unless you can locate the serial number and match it somehow. |
I'm hoping the Tecumseh will run, so I at least have a working tractor until I can locate a Kohler. The serial number plate on the rear end was gone, so I suppose since the tractors themselves were the same, it could be rebuilt either way, 7 or 10 hp. Guess I have to do some measuring to find out if the frame was simply cut and widened or cut, widened, and lengthened. Isn't it the same frame as almost all the other tractors of that era, so in theory could I measure on one of my 122's for comparison?