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Originally Posted by Bilrus61

Catapillar has absolutly nothing to do with the design or manufacturing of their small 3 cylinder engines used in the ZTR mowers. It is designed by Perkins and made in Japan by Shibaura, the same company that makes the small compact tractors for New Holland/Case. Before I would let a Cat tech work on a small 3 cylinder Cat engine I would call up my local New Holland/Case dealer and ask them about any issues. I would lay dollars to doughnuts they will know more about the small 3 cylinder Shibaura engines than a Cat tech that works on big monster engines every day and never has even seen one of the little "Cat"/Perkins/Shibaura engines in his shop. The only thing "Cat" about these engines are the stickers and the paint color. My dad owns a little 3 cylinder Shibura/Case compact tractor and they are killer engines. Never a lick of trouble. Very powerful with lots of torque.

I honestly already knew this but had a senior moment, anyway I did just get off the phone with a Scag technical specialist, and he did verify that any warranty work performed on their 28 hp Cat diesel must be performed by a certified Cat technician. I would think the 35 Cat diesel used in ZTR applications was also of a Perkins design, the tech is going to email me this information, he was also interested in knowing about the 35.

Cat bought Perkins somewhere in the later 90's I believe, but because of the European market being so diehard Perkins they left everything in Europe as it was before Cat purchased the Perkins operation. I guess they used the old philosophy, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

This is interesting reading on Perkins:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkins_Engines