The 1998 Lawn Boy 10323 Dura Force Lawn Mower

This is the 1998 Lawn Boy 10323 Self Propelled "Dura Force" commercial lawn mower.
It has a 6.5 Lawn Boy (Tecumseh 2-stroke) engine.

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[nissanskyliner34stun]

take off the recoil cover and then the recoil. look at how its set up. just like a tecumseh. wat type of needle do u buy for the dura force enging, tecumseh. and if u look when toro started was helping lawn boy in 1990 there first 4 stroke was a tecumseh. then the next year they made the dura force engine. the differnce between the actural lawn boy engine and dura force is on the real lawn boy engine the air filter was on the left side and not the back.

[TheGrayTruck]

@nissanskyliner34stun Thank you!!!

[6983057]

WHO MADE THE DURAFORCE ENGINE?

[TheGrayTruck]

@6983057 Tecumseh.

Tecumseh 2-stroke

[nissanskyliner34stun]

@russellj1998 and i have 3 lawnboys with duraforce engines that thrown rods

[nissanskyliner34stun]

@russellj1998 i found a toro with 2 storke engine with exact engine as duraforce part #'s,like the air-vane and carb. model 20441, 1995-1996 model. and im typeing on a little net book so i ment to type m not l.

[russellj1998]

@nissanskyliner34stun TORO never used a Lawn-Boy manufactured engine on their mowers. They used a Suzuki 2 cycle.

As far as TORO using Chinese engines, I find it unlikely and I would have to see proof. A link provided by you would suffice. I may learn something.

Duraforce unreliable? Most L-B aficionados will disagree. I own 4 of them and all run flawlessly.

Lawn-Boy never made a model "L" engine. Models A, C, D, M, F, V, and E were built.

[nissanskyliner34stun]

@russellj1998 btw if lawnboy made all there engines y did toro have them on there mowers... have you seen any toro with a toro motor other than there cheap stuff. chaina engines on them not toro. if toro made there own engines it would make them lose money and crap, kinda like chevy trucks because they use isuzu engines from japan. And if lawnboy made the duraforce engine why were they unrelible unlike the L style lawnboy engine.

[russellj1998]

@nissanskyliner34stun Because it looks similar (not identical) does not make it a Tecumseh.

Toro did not "help" Lawn-Boy, but instead bought out the company from OMC in 1992.

Lawn-Boy powered some of their mowers with Tecumseh and Briggs & Stratton 4 cycle engines only because of market pressure. Lawn-Boy Duraforce (2 cycle), Tecumseh and Briggs & Stratton were all sold within the same time frames. Lawn-Boy produced Tecumseh and B&S mowers for many decades.

lawnboy.com/about/history/inde­x.html

[russellj1998]

@Moparman58 Mower engines were made by Lawn-Boy. Snowthrower counter parts (R-Tek) were made by Briggs & Stratton. Similar in appearance but are not the same engine.

[nissanskyliner34stun]

@TheGrayTruck your welcom.

[nissanskyliner34stun]

@russellj1998 look at the magnetos on the tecumseh 2 stroke snow blower engine and the dura force engine on the lawn boys, there exactly the same. the only difference i can see beetwen them is the head is bolted on and the snow blower 2 strokes are like most weed wackers.