I picked up a red one
 

I just got home with this, it came with a snow blade, 50c deck, mule and hanger, a few quarts of paint, a new pack of decals, new filter, new tires, and wheel weights. It has about 1200 hours on it, and it’s a Kohler KT17 Series II engine! It won’t start, it last ran a couple years ago. I’ll drive it off the the trailer tomorrow :biggrin2:

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Excited for a new project... especially a red one. My only other red one was too rusted up for me to fool with so it ended up parted out.

Nice Score Steve! Looks like it has lots of goodies with it, too and some really nice wheel weights. Are those 50 lbs. or 75 lbs. each? I also like the white grill on the red ones. I was thinking about putting a white grill and side shields on my 982 to dress it out a little differently.

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Looks good in the dark! :beerchug:

Paints a little rough but it will clean up nice.

Those are 75lb weights.

Plan is to get it running and go from there.

Congrats on the new red, looks nice. I've got a 582 that i have cleaned up and touched up. Trying to keep it original it's only that way once. Mike:beerchug:

Here are some daylight photos. There is no compression in one cylinder, and I removed the spark plug, I can’t see the piston moving, I can on the other side. :bash2:

I think I still did good with all the accessories and new tires, etc. new engine seals, new tranny cover gasket, new plugs, filter, 6 cans of paint...

I gave it a bath to clean the dirt and grease off, looks like someone over sprayed it with red and it’s now peeling.

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Now contact the member here with 2 engines for sale and you will be in good shape.
A broken rod in your engine makes for many broken parts inside it.:bigthink:

Welp, the only way to know for sure is to crack it open and look, starting with pulling the head. The PO said it ran two years ago and had been sitting and now it won’t start. So I figured it would be carb related. I guess it’s possible he was running it on one cylinder. I don’t think rods spontaneously combust while sitting.

That other member johncub has two engines but is 5 hours away. There were two nearby for $50 a couple weeks ago. One with a broken rod and one with a bad seal. That could have come in handy now. I’ll keep an eye out for something closer, while I tear this one down and see what’s happened inside.

I have a good Kohler command vtwin short block sitting around too, maybe I can build that up and use it. I’d need a carb, a head, gaskets, muffler and shrouds, flywheel... etc.

Nice find!

Nice find, That box is a nice little bag of trouser change.