656cc, 16 HP Briggs opposed twin tune up

656cc the vid says it all

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Autos & Vehicles

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• 16
• HP
• Briggs
• 656cc
• opposed
• twin
• tune
• up
• and
• stratton
• lawn
• tractor
• MTD

[dieselpuller]

Why were you replacing the head gaskets?

[1skiinIan]

@dieselpuller one of them was blown. you always replace head gaskets

[criticaboutvids]

hmm.. the deck isnt on there... straight pipe time!

[Nza420]

metallica needs to hang it up

[Dillon1791]

Nice video, but next time, use brake cleaner and WD-40 to clean off the carbon.. i don't know to much about all them tinny scrapes.. :/

[JimmyFarina97]

@SaGalv yea back in 2007 i think. someone else bought the plans and destryed the reliablitity of the engines. o well.. I love the ones made before 1990. they seem to be the best. tougher if you will.

[SaGalv]

@JimmyFarina97 Didnt realize tecumseh went out of buisness...

[JimmyFarina97]

@SaGalv (pt. 2) thats why they are out of buisness. :) but if they were not reliable, dont you think the same thing would happen to Briggs? so it would take a long time to find a good design for the application, and make it so that it wasnt constantly failing. and yes, cars come first with new designs, then motorcylces, and so on. by the time companies come out with these designs for better engines, we might even have a different way to cut our grass! or electric ones. who knows?

[JimmyFarina97]

@SaGalv True. Lets talk Flat heads for a minute. think about tecumseh engines compared to briggs. both have flat heads (older ones anyway), both most likely don't get regular oil changes by your average owner. Both are used in the same applications, yet tecumseh seems to overheat, throw rods, and lose compression due to wear quicker/more commonly than Briggs engines do. why? Because of the design. Briggs worked hard to make their engines reliable. tecumseh wasn't so lucky.

[SaGalv]

@JimmyFarina97 Well, Im like 90 percent positive that the flat head design is not being manufactured anymore for even small lawn engines. Most of them are OHV, and some are even SOHC design (yet to see a DOHC lawnmower engine yet).... In all honesty i has nothing to do with reliabilty, and more to do with the demand and application for these engines. Cars developed 1st becuase that market has a higher demand. Notice how motorcycle also progress more slowly then cars?

[JimmyFarina97]

@SaGalv If only the popular engine companies would overhaul the designs for these engines so they could get this kind of power. although that may cause a decline in its reliablity and durability. they would have more power yes, but it could make them much less stable than todays mower engines. Briggs and Stratton's engine wasn't designed over night. they are insanley reliable in my opinion. so it would take years to design a new fuel efficient, high power model.

[SaGalv]

@JimmyFarina97 yeah really, i mean just simply by the angle of the air entering the combustion camber makes a world of difference.... the flat head design is so out dated it isnt even funny. But even single over head cam is even outdated in todays standards....and forget overhead valve, with rockers, thats a joke nowa days unless its a v8 with big displacement..... but 98hp out off a .6 liter 4 cylinder is where its at and even more if it has variable cam timing...the ICE has come a long way...