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    TurboDiesel, Mar 8, 2022
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    Keeping it running? This machine has never failed to start/run/mow.
    Its been flawless for 26 years.
    Heck! Its even got the original oil in it!:eek:
     
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    I do sharpen the blades every 5-10
    years
     
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    Looks similar to the muffler on my kohler powered dingo
     
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    I believe kohler is a good engine.
    Some of the later models may have been less reliable in some situations though.
     
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    I bet you could take the old one off bring it to a muffler shop and they could weld up a new one for you.
     
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    Mine’s repowered with a kohler command pro. The first Kohler only went 650 hours. I have no idea how it was treated though. Probably roughly. These little machines typically lead a very hard life. 6DA220B3-AE9C-4108-B84A-9F95480767E5.jpeg

    When I was going through the repower search I looked for a new muffler. They make several variations of this same muffler. Yours has a side exit and appears to have longer mounting pipes.
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    Yep. Same can, different pipe configuration.
    I'm waiting on a reply from Isavetractors. Good chance ima buy a muffler there and adapt it
     
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    Looks real close to the Onan 20HP mufflers...
     
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    So after days of waiting for an email reply from isavetractors... i called and waited on hold... then after 15mins chose the call back option, and found out they don't carry mufflers.
    :picard:
     
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    However they did give me Jack's Small Engine's number to try.
     
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    They have lots of stuff, I believe that Northern Tool bought them out or is in the process of. Hopefully that outlet doesn’t turn to chit after being vacuumed up by a mega store.

    Northern Tool + Equipment Acquires Jacks Small Engines
     
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    Well that's not good.
     
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    No luck there or parts warehouse. Or troy bilt.
     
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    Not much to those mufflers. Just find one that's 90% of what you need (size and exit location) and fabricate the rest. If you can bend tube, you can fab the inlet piping easy.
     
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    But what kind of Kohler? That's the question. It appears to be a v twin, not horizontally opposed. From what I saw, most of these tractors had Kohler magnum engines, which were opposed, not v twins
     
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    Courage are the ones to avoid. Kohler's are good engines though, even despite that bad series. Some call them Dis-Courage. 2003-06 models especially

    The rest have been really good for the most part. KT series 1 were splash lubed, not pressurized lube, so they had some issues. Series 2 KT series were fine.
     
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    If the pipes are good yet, just find an automotive small muffler about the right size and weld the pipes in it. I've got a glass pack type muffler here that would be close.
     
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    A couple hours with some EMT and a conduit bender you'd have some pretty sweet custom long tube headers....:quad: :D
     
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