That is not a garden tractor. That is a lawn tractor by definition. It's meant for mowing and pulling a trailer. It's not designed to use ground engaging implements like a plow. And as new as that is that one most likely has cast iron sleeves. Briggs built a lot on higher HP engines in the 70's and beyond like that. But again there was a reason that Cub, JD, Wheel Horse and others favored the Kohler K series engines. I'm not knocking Briggs. But the older L head engines without sleeves were just not designed to do much more than mow lawn and they there were not designed to run decades. They didn't want them to last that long. Most of em only lasted 5 years or so. Heck of a lot of those engines still around but most were well taken care of with frequent oil changes and other as needed maintenance. Average Joe homeowner didn't do that. Briggs has stayed in business because people buy new mowers to replace ones that quit running.
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Today's Featured Article - The Nuts and Bolts of Fasteners - Part 2 - by Curtis Von Fange. In our previous article we discussed capscrews, bolts, and nuts along with their relative hardness and thread sizes. In this segment we will finish up on our fasteners and then work with ways to keep them from loosening up in the field. Capscrews, bolts and nuts are not the only means of holding two parts together. When dealing with thinner metals like sheet tin, a long bolt and
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