California
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- Joined
- Jan 22, 2004
- Messages
- 14,928
- Location
- An hour north of San Francisco
- Tractor
- Yanmar YM240 Yanmar YM186D
It came from the Yanmar assembly line that built John Deere's under-50hp tractors for 20 years!Wasn't your Yanmar made in a Siberian toy factory,?
I like to think the exact model I have, this US export version of their home market tractor, was so good that it spooked Deere into simply contracting with Yanmar rather than attempting to design their own smaller tractors in-house. Deere recognized instantly that they had been beaten in their own back yard.
I'm kidding about 'Chinese'. Murky, sludgy OEM fluids was a common complaint in the Chinese tractor threads a few years back. Mahindra is known for much better quality than that. I wonder if the bad filter indicates sabotage just before repo man showed up, or possibly refueling from an old farm tank full of algae. In any case if I had that I would check the other fluids too.