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:)It's like flouride in yer toothpaste. Altho, TBH, if you don't have your teeth later in life, might as well save and buy the WalMart brand. Not sure if it will impact yer blood pressure but what the hey?:)

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I like these oil threads! I've just reread my manuals. The Briggs manual says my engine will like SAE 30 which matches up with everything I grew old with. My current oil is B&S SAE 30. The Bad Boy manual sez 10W30. And in very small print: "BB Synthetic Blend ... recommended." I live in hot...

Oil change yesterday on my 100 hour Bad Boy with Briggs 19. Gotta luv the access to all things mechanical.

I'm on another forum and a pro said the only oil-related failure he'd seen was the absence of oil.

Yes, there are as you'll soon see.

You don't feel the need to upgrade the bearings to Timken, SKF or similar? ETA: On reassembly on a similar situation, I used NeverSeize. Holy cow does that work. A little dab will do you.

I notice you said "Stens" not 8ten. Maybe 8ten is Sten in Mandarin.

I think I saw a how to on You ... know where.

I love oil threads! Do it on the grass and keep it slippery.

A feature and a bug. Thanks Troverman for detailed post.

Yep. Those days are long gone for me.

I'm just not that good.

I can stand up straight. Without the Grip, I have to lean over to hold the D handle (and doubtless pick up some weight).

I missed something before, the Grip is bolted to my trimmer attachment on the Stihl Kombi, and stays there. When I put the edger attachment on I haven't noticed a need for the additional handle as I can generally use the edger one-handed while walking straight up once in the groove.

Update review: I'm buying stock in the company. I kept screwing around with adjustments and now that the Darwin's Grip is dialed in, it's a gamechanger. Zero weight on the arms, back straight, I'm back to feeling like the Terminator on weeds. I bounce that string way out and let that big dog...

My Stihl KM111 is a 4 mix. It's an overhead valved gas engine but drinks 50:1.

a very apt designation

I heard escort service! Is it Rep Boebert?

Yeah. I'll remeasure

The saga ends, after waiting and waiting, the dealer called the factory this am and was told the belt was "backordered til Sept." They then took a belt off a new 2023 Rambler mower and sold it to me for $60. Got home and outside measurement is 134.25 x 5/8" BB #041-4023-00. Inside measurement...

This is hard for me ... but I'm doing it.

My JD had same issues. Crummy design.

If I recall correctly my stihl kombi came with an additional straight handle. Long gone. Now I get it. That said, the Darwin is the next iteration. With the harness, you're not holding any weight. No matter for the young and dumb but me? I'm liking it.

I've owned a bunch of mowers. Never had a problem finding a belt. Sunbelts look really good but they measure diff as noted above. I'm sure glad I don't really need one atm.

Well, time and blood pressure guarantees I lost this battle. Good thing I'm not actually being idled here. Reading Bert's comments, how does one know OEM from OEM copy? Not all 134" belts are 134" on my tape measure. I'm not as smart as I look.

I saw this and a couple of cheaper ones. This is where the rubber meets the road: will you pay extra to support American ingenuity, or save bucks by buying the obvious Asian copy? I bought American.

I loves my edger attachment. As regards balance, you need not reach down to the D handle, this handle comes to you in an aspect that doesn't encourage weight bearing.

It weights grams ounces and changes the balance in a positive way for me. I'm going to paint the thing. It screams "please ask me wtf this is." I'd guess it's very similar to those commercial bicycle bars with a throttle.

The saga continues. I caved and ordered from the dealer. Been a week now and the nice lady reported that 6 were coming on maybe Tuesday. I've owned this mower 29 days so far and cannot buy a deck belt that fits. Tried two so far then caved. Not in stock. Do they stock blades? Bad Boy is treating...

Yeah, got the stihl double harness and stihl Km111 kombi. 14 lbs. The Darwin handle makes a lot of difference.

The Darwin's Grip deal came. I don't have it dialed in but I like it a lot. Thanks

It certainly was a Sunbelt. I'll have the dealer belt by Monday.

Needless to say, my goal of beating the factory price has been denied by the time and travel. But, gotta have a spare. I've had more painful lessons. A plus is I love the belt routing setup and the tensioner bolt.

This has been a challenge. Bad Boy Central won't tell the size. I checked out a belt on a new Rambler at TS and it appeared to have the the size covered by a Bad Boy part number. I took my deck belt off and it measured by me with a tape at 134 and a RCH. Still unwilling to pay $70 for the...

I have the Stihl double harness. Has the hook but it's worked well for me. Thanks.

Just what I need.

Now that looks helpful for my 81 yr old body! [My mind is still 16.] Thank you! I have one on order.

Got all that covered. Issue is a good chunk of grass about 15' below grade on a river, maybe 10' x 40'. Limited access to say the least. Keeping the head level is key. I'm not much good at that. Or I can carry a push down there and I'm not crazy about that. Re direction, I have a Stihl kombi...

Thanks Bert and others. Like all old pharts here, I grew up with Briggs.

Cool. One guy claimed he had a "stack" of blown engines. I am familiar with that variety of brand loyalty.

Thank you sir. The Briggs fares poorly on the FaceBook BadBoy page. I was disappointed that the cam is plastic but they can't sell millions a year if they're junk.

I have new B&S 19hp 330000 series. When asked why it was junk on Facebook, one guy said the issue was the cam follower. I haven't gone the YouTube route yet as I wanted to hear the forum's experience. My questions are along the lines of being proactive. How long do I have?

Book gives diff # for 2023 but no specs.

Unfortunately I need to use a weed eater on a smallish back yard with limited access. Is there a secret to getting a reasonably level outcome?

On a residential mower? Where are they?

This is worth discussing but maybe not here.:cool:

Outstanding post Bert. Thank you. Edited to add this out of place question: how long do residential ZRT hydrogears last?

Bert was commenting about how crude these air cooled engines are along the lines of oil filters don't matter much. I wonder. An old flathead sure but these newer OHV? Hondas and Kawasakis are crude?