bolens tractor

I'll spare you the details of what I went through trying to find him a water pump this past summer, but learned along the way that any number of companies put their name on that basic tractor over a span of years.

You sold 'em and I'm not averse at all to being corrected, but the understanding I got from the whole experience was that Iseki was a make of tractor, and that the engine, at least in this case was an Isuzu, about like a Yanmar in a Deere.

The tractor I refer to in the post belongs to my neighbor and is not the tractor chuck is asking about!

Fifteen yea,rs typin' o these things, and I still get in trouble cuttin' deletin, pastin' . . . 8<0

When we were selling the Bolens with the two-banger diesels, we also were selling Satoh diesel tractors about the same size - and those has little diesel engines were made by Mitsubishi of Japan.

Seems that engine had a lot of applications, including ag and marine, and there were several ways to route the coolant around, depending on the application/installation. When it came, the pump had a plate on the back for the pump outlet. When we peeled the old one off, you could see on the face of the block where there were other ways for the coolant to go, which means the outlet in the plate would have been in a different spot. One pump, two or more different plates for routing the outlet is what I'm trying to say.

The counter guy on the phone was pretty particular, but he was able to take the engine ser# to Isuzu and find out which configuartaion this engine left the factory with.

It's a nice little two-banger. Tractor hydraulics are a little slow, but I'm pretty impressed with the work the neighbor can do with the little fella!