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[aclark]

After about an hour of use I start to smell burning oil and a little noise in the engine sounds like a main rattling no smoke out the exhaust while using after you shut down to idle starts smoking a little and then when you shut off in smokes like you poured oil on manifold the last two times I mowed it used 1/2 quart of oil it has 1084 hours on meter Kohler twin 17 DOES it need to be rebuilt ???

Thanks Anthony

 

[rbedell]

Anthony:

YUP.....sounds like this KT17 needs to be freshened up.

 

[mtoney]

Yepper, time to rebuild it, make sure to completely replace the gov gear set up. Or you can look into repowering with with a newer magnum series or one of the V twins from Briggs, Honda or Kohler. The newer engines are a bit more fuel effecient over the old flathead twins. Look at Small Engine Warehouse and Tulsa Engine warehouse for deals on new engines. Mike

 

[aclark]

Thanks for the input I am sure I will have more questions this winter while rebuilding Is most parts still available for these machines I would like to keep is all original

Anthony