[Pocketraisins]

I have one on my Billygoat leaf vacuum. Only had it for two years, but it seems like I don't see any of these engines around on anything.

I know they are the same block pretty much as the smaller engines, but I never see an 8hp, or if I do it is off of a snowblower.

This is a representative picture and not the exact one I have. Same model and set up, but 8hp and green.

 

[rons old ford]

I have an 8hp vertical on my old forrest gump mower. It runs ok for an hour, then surges for 5 minutes, then dies for the day.

 

[rhenning]

Pretty hard to find now as most have been used up in the last 30 years. I still have one on a Troy Bilt Tomahawk chipper but it to is getting old. Roger

 

[Clarkbug]

I've got one on a Troy-Bilt tiller and another on a chipper. Both seem to run well for their age.


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[Onan18]

Rebuild them, parts are plentiful and cheap, and a 0.020" overbore (around here a competent machine shop will do that for $40.00) will make it like a brand new one again and good for another 40 years. Easiest engines on earth to rebuild, Briggs really got it right with the 8 I/C.

Joe

 

[deereboy55]

I have one off a toro snowblower,,it is now in my 110 tractor ,,was a replacement for the dead 8hp tecumseh.

 

[Tractor-Holic]

I still see them pretty often around here on old snowblowers and tillers,generators,some garden tractors...

I wouldn't say they are "rare",more like "you dont see them as often as you used too,but they are still "popular"...

It seems things come around in batches here--for years you wont see a particular engine much,then all of a sudden you'll see a bunch of them on things for sale on CL,at swap meets and flea markets,or on scrapped items..

Sears Suburbans were real scarce here for a long time,then it seemed a bunch of them came out of hiding all of a sudden..maybe the original owners who hung onto them passed on,and they were finally brought out of those sheds,garages and barns?..who knows..

I think they are good engines,though they always have the usual issues with the starter clutches seizing up and ripping out the recoil rope ,and the Flo-Jet carbs can be a pain sometimes,not the easiest to take apart and work on..but I've had more good ones than bad..

I have a newer Briggs 8HP off a Craftsman shredder/chipper ,but it has the cursed tapered crankshaft,it runs and looks new too of course,since its useless for anything but what it came on or maybe a generator...not sure if I feel like spending money to make a adapter so it can be used with a pulley on one of my tractors or not..