In short, it takes effort. Almost every JD casting has a part number on it. Use the parts list to identify parts that contain the year listings in the parts list.
Example 1: Look at the center reel support. Is it a solid plate or 4 individual bars? Compare to parts list for year breakdown.
Example 2: Look how the gearbox bolts in with the mounting spacers. Compare to parts list.
Continue using the process of elimination to further reduce the year window on unique castings identified in parts listing that contain a year range.
Once done you will likely have it down to a year or two if you put forth enough effort (that's why I said roughly in my pervious comments). Of course this will assume that no parts have been changed out over the years, but you can kinda sorta even audit for that. Identify the castings that have multiple parts of the same thing. Say there are 4 total parts of the same thing on the rake. 3 of them fall into a year range that makes sense for all other parts on the rake and 1 falls into a range that makes zero sense. Likely that part may have been replaced from a donor unit and consider it an outlier.
It all boils down to how much effort you wanna put into it and whether or not you like solving a mystery.
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