I recently bought a "vintage" snapper rear engine series 3 that had been repowered with a B&S 286707-4029-01 circa 1995 engine.
I'm trying to find out everything I can about it to get ahead of future problems so I don't have to be one of those "HELP ME" people that show up on forums all time.
Right now, everything is running fine, I changed the blade, the air and gas filters. Good compression, no blue smoke, governor hardly kicks in even when going through very tall grass, but I'm a bit worried about the condition of the plastic pinion on the starter -- the top half is about gone, but it engages properly.
I looked at the parts manual. I looked at the utube videos and all the photos that I can, but mine doesn't look like theirs. Everybody else has a nice flat screen over the flywheel. Mine has a smooth shaft sticking up about one inch. I'm attaching photos.
When I bought this thing, it had a pull starter over the shaft, but, of course it wouldn't do anything. I was thinking maybe I can cut a keyway into it and put a pulley on it to run various things. Or maybe I can put a pull starter on it. Seems a shame to have an engine like this only for cutting grass.
I'm trying to find out everything I can about it to get ahead of future problems so I don't have to be one of those "HELP ME" people that show up on forums all time.
Right now, everything is running fine, I changed the blade, the air and gas filters. Good compression, no blue smoke, governor hardly kicks in even when going through very tall grass, but I'm a bit worried about the condition of the plastic pinion on the starter -- the top half is about gone, but it engages properly.
I looked at the parts manual. I looked at the utube videos and all the photos that I can, but mine doesn't look like theirs. Everybody else has a nice flat screen over the flywheel. Mine has a smooth shaft sticking up about one inch. I'm attaching photos.
When I bought this thing, it had a pull starter over the shaft, but, of course it wouldn't do anything. I was thinking maybe I can cut a keyway into it and put a pulley on it to run various things. Or maybe I can put a pull starter on it. Seems a shame to have an engine like this only for cutting grass.