Hi,
Move your inquiry over to the "Walk Behind Mowers" within MyTractorForum. There are so many fellows rebuilding Lawn-Boy engines that you'd be astonished. They are so incredibly simple to rebuild that 3 weeks ago, that I used Lawn-Boy rebuilding as a way to let the female in my life begin feeling more comfortable about restoring mechanical things to working order. I obtained two non-working Lawn-Boys with model numbers close together. They turned out to have been manufactured 3 years apart. I asked her to pick one and I'd take the other, then we'd rebuild them. The process was slower since I kept explaining things to her, but she did 100% of the work. When it was assembled, it started on the third pull and sounds great. She had the rings off the piston. She wanted to see what needle bearings are like, so she took the rod-crank needle bearing apart and repacked it with Vasoline so they wouldn't fall out during reassembly. She removed and hand lapped the reed valve and when she was done it sealed better than when it left the factory. Cleaned carbon from the muffler. All the usual things. When she was done, she was so damned proud that she was just about glowing. She emailed her friends telling them about her victory. She was smiling more for days. The value of that lawn mower was trivial compared to what it did for her. Trust me, you CAN restore that "F-series" Lawn-Boy engine to operation and you might even feel good about the experience later.
So please touch base with the fellows in the "Walk Behind Mower" group.
They will help you with any questions you might have.
Do mention your machine's model number and describe the behavior it displayed before it quit running.
Some very gracious people frequent these forums.
It just occurred to me that you might want to have someone else rebuild it for you. I'm confident that someone reasonably close to your geographical location participates in that forum and would probably restore it to operation for you for a lower than dealer price. Explore your options.
John
Move your inquiry over to the "Walk Behind Mowers" within MyTractorForum. There are so many fellows rebuilding Lawn-Boy engines that you'd be astonished. They are so incredibly simple to rebuild that 3 weeks ago, that I used Lawn-Boy rebuilding as a way to let the female in my life begin feeling more comfortable about restoring mechanical things to working order. I obtained two non-working Lawn-Boys with model numbers close together. They turned out to have been manufactured 3 years apart. I asked her to pick one and I'd take the other, then we'd rebuild them. The process was slower since I kept explaining things to her, but she did 100% of the work. When it was assembled, it started on the third pull and sounds great. She had the rings off the piston. She wanted to see what needle bearings are like, so she took the rod-crank needle bearing apart and repacked it with Vasoline so they wouldn't fall out during reassembly. She removed and hand lapped the reed valve and when she was done it sealed better than when it left the factory. Cleaned carbon from the muffler. All the usual things. When she was done, she was so damned proud that she was just about glowing. She emailed her friends telling them about her victory. She was smiling more for days. The value of that lawn mower was trivial compared to what it did for her. Trust me, you CAN restore that "F-series" Lawn-Boy engine to operation and you might even feel good about the experience later.
So please touch base with the fellows in the "Walk Behind Mower" group.
They will help you with any questions you might have.
Do mention your machine's model number and describe the behavior it displayed before it quit running.
Some very gracious people frequent these forums.
It just occurred to me that you might want to have someone else rebuild it for you. I'm confident that someone reasonably close to your geographical location participates in that forum and would probably restore it to operation for you for a lower than dealer price. Explore your options.
John
