Casting numbers on G VI

I would make room in my barn for one of them, or both. So I hear, great deere hunting artillery. As you know, these ponies are about fifty years old; and even the "great ones" need some freshening up after enough trips around the globe. For a spell CT used one large rebuilder in the midwest for their parts source. Some have claimed that sometimes parts numbers got changed, updated, after a trip through that rebuuild shop. Might this be the case? It certainly can lend to confusion. best, Yeoman

You are correct on the engine serial numbers not matching the tractor serial numbers. Moline produced their engine seperate from the tractors so its highly unlikely you'll find the engine and tractor serial numbers to be the same. Units from early in a production run have numbers close to each other but late in a production run stationary engine sales increased the difference between serial numbers.

Bottom line is just because the serial numbers don't match does not mean the engine is not factory original to that tractor. Quite the contrary in reality.

Brian