[Vwdiesel] vw bus engine in a JD lawn tractor

[LBaird119 at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/22/2009 8:47:31 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
tgott at hotmail.com writes:

> JD 140 Lawn tractor with a VW bus engine in it. My father always does 
> write-ups on all the things we own in our tractor collection and he was 
> wanting some info on this engine.

  Near the oil filler is a flat spot with engine code letter designation. 
See if you can get that from the seller and we can tell you what 
engine it is.  That's the way I proved the "porsche" engine in one 
particular bus was NOT an 8.2:1, 1.7L with 80 hp but a 7:1 engine 
with less than 70hp.  Simplest way to know what it really is.  :-)
  Looks like a fun tractor!
    Loren