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friiy
Location: Las Vegas, The Desert
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Re: One of the Best Ways to Fix a TEC Engine
Reply #4 Feb 5, 2011 11:56 pm |
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A lot of people don't know that for YEARS all Sears and Toro lawnmowers came with only Tec. engines......... I loved the Simple designs of their carbs.. Drain them and they would last forever, Cleand them and you could get them to run....most of the time without parts. Briggs made a more reliable motor (by a little)... But the diaphram choke and pump system on the Briggs carbs were a pain in the ass--- do to warping of the tank mounting surface and the diaphrams getting old and hard. Nice company to do buisness with also... Friiy
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Paul7
Joined: Mar 12, 2007
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Re: One of the Best Ways to Fix a TEC Engine
Reply #5 Feb 6, 2011 12:05 am |
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A lot of people don't know that for YEARS all Sears and Toro lawnmowers came with only Tec. engines.........I loved the Simple designs of their carbs.. Drain them and they would last forever, Cleand them and you could get them to run....most of the time without parts. Briggs made a more reliable motor (by a little)... But the diaphram choke and pump system on the Briggs carbs were a pain in the ass--- do to warping of the tank mounting surface and the diaphrams getting old and hard. Nice company to do buisness with also... Friiy I knew that Sears used Tecumseh almost exclusively. In fact it's widely accepted that Tecumseh's demise was because Sears canceled their contract with them. I did not know that Toro used Tecumseh that much.
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edgenet
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Location: Toronto
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Re: One of the Best Ways to Fix a TEC Engine
Reply #8 Feb 6, 2011 4:25 pm |
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My old JD826 was bought new in 1982 - been used every winter since then and the TEC engine has never had a problem. I agree those old TEC engine were and still are a jewel. The tech engine they produced in the last 5 years before they threw in the towel are junk. I found one of the best fixes for the new engines is to install the older adjutable Carbs makes the engines run much smoother
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relics
Joined: Jan 16, 2011
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Re: One of the Best Ways to Fix a TEC Engine
Reply #9 Feb 6, 2011 5:03 pm |
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I have several Ariens machines with Tecumseh engines.One is a 6HP thats a 1968 and has been in my care since new.It has the original motor with a rebuilt carb,New points condenser and coil.It runs great and throws better than new.This is mostly related to turning the top end up to 3600rpm.It had been at 3300 since it was new.The only problem i ever had was i broke a flywheel on that machine durring a heavy storm.I have a trouts2 rebuilt machine with a excellent original 8HP on it and thats a 1980 ST824 with new carb and new points,condenser and coil.That one is turned up to 3600rpm and has run for 15HRs so far this season and has been a great machine.I will say i have seen 2 snow kings throw rods.One was a 7HP and the other was a 6HP both had been run out of oil.In both cases it was a good show.Both were under load and went off with a good sized bang.But you know those were both the fault of the user and not the Tecumseh engine.These engines may be old stuff now but you can tweek the carbs nicely on them because there adjustable.And the old L head Tecs make nice torque and throw well.I find when the carbs are adjusted perfectly they are very good cold weather starters to with 1 or 2 pulls. http://s1129.photobucket.com/albums/m508/ranvette2003/
This message was modified Feb 6, 2011 by relics
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