You will likely run into the 'not our problem/fault deal on this.
You got a lemon tractor - the bad tranny - and the dealer tried to work it out.
Of course the dealer was in a bind at that time already, and trying to keep things together as best he could to keep his business going. He used stock on hand - a donor tractor, a slightly wrong backhoe - to keep the sale, to keep you going, to try to keep himself going.
But he folded, and that leaves you out on an island....
Corporate will come in and say, well you have an unapproved backhoe on the tractor, and your serial numbers don't match - tractor and tranny - so we as corporate can't honor the warrenty. The machine is configured wrong, and was abused by the wrong equipment.
When you say you got it that way from the dealer, they will say they have no records of that, and you need to take it up with whatever person said all that was ok - we at corporate didn't ok any of that, or were aware of it, not part of our warrenty to allow such things.
And of course your dealer isn't there so you got no one to go talk to....
This happens.
It sucks.
You're the individual left holding the bag.
Hopefully Corporate will come through for you, but I fear you will be left out on an island.
I'd be real careful what you say here in public, such stuff does get noticed. I don't know nothing about your other thread, or who Dave is, or any of that stuff. Doesn't matter to me.
I don't know if it helps you to know you are not the first this has happened to. It's a common thing. I'm a farmer, and grain buyers, parts suppliers, fertilizer dealers, implement dealers - any of them can fall down and go away, and leave us individual farmers holding the empty bag.
Your story is all too familar to me, Seems ot happen ot farmers every 20-30 years as the farm ecconomy goesin cycles like that....
I hope it works out for you, but I think your fears have a better chance of playing out, unfortunately.
--->Paul