Starting two other lawn mowers

[JDMowerMan1998]

Never mind. Is your 316 for sale????...

[hobieslug45]

my son bought a troy built three weeks ago. be careful with these new mowers. the blade was so out of ballance I had to cut a 1/4 inch of blade off of one side and they put the blade on up side down. Must be a bunch of ass holes working there . If they answered my phone calls I wouldn't be posting.

[ghosty1233]

You have a blown starter. I just had to replace one one my 20 horse craftsman. You can tell it's blown when it's making clicking sounds. Its real frustrating.

[inspector784]

How much you want for the craftsman?

[walshmonster2005]

Sorry it's not for sale.

[adb140275]

how did u un sieze an engine?

[walshmonster2005]

I don't remember the engine ever being seized up. I don't know how to unseize an engine except I think you can squirt penetrating oil into each cylinder and wait.

[walshmonster2005]

I forgot to mention we already had an engine lined for the Troy Bilt that was ready to go.

[84400]

yeah those craftsmen are junk. I mean god to mow but they are built weak. I had one with that 12hp tech motor and had starter issues. New starter and some other work and i got it sold. Made good money on it since i trash picked it. I got a 1962 wheel horse and a 1978 case. Both are built 100 tiems better then the craftsman ever was.

[adb140275]

my '81 ltv 10 is solid, new ones suck though

[walshmonster2005]

My green and grey Craftsman mowers have been put through some pretty hard mowing conditions and have turned out just fine, only when I got the grey Craftsman I let the green one sit for a long time before I used it and then it decided to start throwing its deck and tranny belts. So now I hardly ever use it.

[JDMowerMan1998]

Yeah there crap no matter what engine.

[allenjanoch]

are you the one that is call the key keeper

[walshmonster2005]

Yeup, I'm the Keykeeper.

[thedekester18]

I used to have one of those green craftsman, it had a manual transmission. It was a POS!! Finally the whole electrical system shorted out and we got a John Deere 125

[walshmonster2005]

The green Craftsman doesn't have any problems but its hardly used, cause I've got SO many mowers as you can tell.

[thedekester18]

You got a good one then, I have read about so many problems with these mowers.

[uxwbill]

It has also blown a starter and the engine died one day in a really big puff of white smoke. We never did figure that one out, and it started right up again afterwards.

I can't say that it's been a bad mower--it actually mows fairly well--but the brown Craftsman next to it is a night and day difference in terms of quality...it is so much better that I don't think the same company built both of them.

[OPE08]

They didn't...it LOOKS like the green one is a bottom level MTD and the other is a Husqvarna... there is no Craftsman company, its just a generic name that Sears slaps on other company's stuff. The TB walk behind looks like a 33" twin-blade commercial mower. The TroyBilt stuff is usually well-made, especially the stuff from before 2005.

I'll still take Cub Cadet...