Re: [MBZ] Mower head gasket update
We've also got a quarter acre. I cut it with a 1965 Snapper 308X rear engine rider that my great uncle Paris bought in 1967. It'd been owned by a golf course before that, they traded it in, the equipment shop re-powered it and he used it until he died in 1989. After his death it got pushed under a spruce tree on the farm until I retrieved it in 2008. I re-powered it with an engine from an '88 Snapper rear engine rider in 2009 and have cut the grass with it ever since. Its even still got one original 1965 tire on it. Probably needs a new blade and rubber drive whatsis but otherwise its great. -Curt From: Max Dillon via Mercedes To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: Max Dillon Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2015 12:39 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Mower head gasket update Nice! Let us know how it cuts. My lot is only about a quarter acre, I've got a push mower that lasted fifteen years now. Finally put on a new blade this summer, and I think it may finally be time to overhaul the carburetor, but this thing just keeps going. Yard Machine with a Briggs & Stratton motor. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300 On August 15, 2015 8:49:24 AM EDT, "Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes" wrote: >My neighbor gave it to me because it was burning oil. > ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Mower head gasket update
Well I did cut with it once before I tore it down. It cut way better with dull blades than my other MTD made 46" mower cuts with brand new high dollar fancy blades on it. Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 15, 2015, at 11:39 AM, Max Dillon via Mercedes > wrote: > > Nice! Let us know how it cuts. > > My lot is only about a quarter acre, I've got a push mower that lasted > fifteen years now. Finally put on a new blade this summer, and I think it > may finally be time to overhaul the carburetor, but this thing just keeps > going. Yard Machine with a Briggs & Stratton motor. > -- > Max Dillon > Charleston SC > '87 300TD > '95 E300 > >> On August 15, 2015 8:49:24 AM EDT, "Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes" >> wrote: >> My neighbor gave it to me because it was burning oil. > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Mower head gasket update
> On August 15, 2015 at 8:49 AM "Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes" > wrote: > > > My neighbor gave it to me because it was burning oil. I've got one of those. MTD with 15hp single cylinder Briggs. He said he had to take a bath after mowing because of the oil cloud condensing on him. Then when the starter died, he bought a new Husqvarna by AYP. I was going to replace the starter and sell it until he told me how badly it smoked. It's about the same vintage (22 years old) as my MTD that's identical except mine has a wider deck and a twin cylinder engine. So the 15hp is just a parts machine, but it was free. My only complaint is I bought a $50 battery a month before he gave me the spare tractor. Mitch. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Mower head gasket update
Nice! Let us know how it cuts. My lot is only about a quarter acre, I've got a push mower that lasted fifteen years now. Finally put on a new blade this summer, and I think it may finally be time to overhaul the carburetor, but this thing just keeps going. Yard Machine with a Briggs & Stratton motor. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300 On August 15, 2015 8:49:24 AM EDT, "Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes" wrote: >My neighbor gave it to me because it was burning oil. > ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Mower head gasket update
My neighbor gave it to me because it was burning oil. Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 14, 2015, at 10:00 PM, Max Dillon via Mercedes > wrote: > > That's great, this was the mower you got cheap, right? > -- > Max Dillon > Charleston SC > '87 300TD > '95 E300 > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Mower head gasket update
That's great, this was the mower you got cheap, right? -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Mower head gasket update
Congrats on the repair. If the grass is growing there like it is here, you'll be bailing hay . . . On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 6:44 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I finally got the motor put back together a few days ago and it fired up > and ran. Wow. Problem was it was pouring oil out the passenger side. Crap. > I took a few things back off today and discovered a bolt I had put in the > bottom of the head that holds a baffle on was slightly too small and was > not tightened. Corrected that issue, put everything back together again, > fired it back up and it runs great with no oil leaks and no oil vapor > blowing out the vent hole in the valve cover like before. Looks like we are > in business. I have not mowed the yard over here since before July 4th > because other mower is at other house and I did not want to haul it back > and forth. > > Sent from my iPhone > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > -- OK Don NSA: The only branch of government that actually listens to US citizens! *“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”* – Mark Twain "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* 2013 F150, 18 mpg 2012 Passat TDI DSG, 44 mpg 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
