Fast Wheel Horse With Drews Honda

Popped drews honda engine on this beast, and now its fast as all hey. its still going to get a pully about 3 times smaller on the trans, so thats gonna jack the speed up even higher! let me know what you think of this creation!

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Autos & Vehicles

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• honda
• engine
• over
• head
• cam
• ohc
• wheel
• horse

[mrmkc2]

what do you think of kohler engines tom?

[tommartyn]

@mrmkc2

For romping, they don't hold up to well for me. They always end up knocking, smoking real bad, and alot of times throwing a rod. 

But for actual garden tractor use, i think they are one of the best engines, by far. At least these old cast iron Horizontal shaft ones from the 60's and 70's, don't know much about newer ones. Any newer engines really. But yeah, for actual use, they work really well. and start super easy after siting for years.

[mrmkc2]

@tommartyn i just wanted to see what you think of them, i have a 1967 case 155 with a 10 horse kohler and it is definitely the best engine out of all of my tractors, its not bad for romping but it revs too high sometimes, me and my friends always talk about having a place like yours for romping, because we live in chicago and if we want to romp we have to drive the tractors over to the forest preserve, but that has to wait because im only 14.

[tommartyn]

@mrmkc2

Gotcha. Yeah man, Kohlers are good garden tractor engines.

If you can find one man, gotta try out a Bolens. With a wisconsin engine. those things are pretty incredible.

[mrmkc2]

@tommartyn yeah i really want a bolens but all the ones i see on ebay or craigslist are out of my price range, they seem like tough tractors though i think that it is awesome how they are shaft driven and they have a real clutch instead of a wimpy little belt tension clutch, and i think posi traction on a garden tractor is awesome. i always here good things about wisconsin engines, i want to get one to replace the tecumseh on my sears suburban.

[1224steve]

@tommartyn well i check the oil and stuff like that every time i start it and my grandad and i restored the tractor its on over the summer the carb and the magnito have been cleaned and stuff so thats why it still runs good

[tommartyn]

@1224steve

Not been my experience with Tecumseh's. Or most of the people i've talked to. I don't know what it is with them, even the old cast iron block ones. I know i've seen a few with plastic pushrods for the points... So in general i'm guessing they just didn't have the best engineering. Maybe tried to cut costs where they could. Mostly the tecumseh problems i've experienced, and heard of, are, Can't get the carb right, Once hot, runs bad, and dies, and magneto/module fails.

[tommartyn]

@RickBaconsAdventures

:)

[1224steve]

@tommartyn just sayin ive had a ten horse power tecumseh for 40 years without havin to replace one part on it

[RickBaconsAdventures]

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