My name is Steve, and I'm a Cub Cadet hoarder

[sorner]

Only a few minutes but I PM'd George and he told me how to put it together, I also found a YouTube video that shows how to do it. I had the whole thing backwards. I turned it around and put it together right and I'm planning to run it for a while today and see what happens. I can still see a puddle of oil down in the intake before the carb. Maybe the best test would be to just mow with it.

[ol'George]

Mowing would be a good exercise, I'm sure the pistons/cyl's have been well lubricated for a while.
A good workout should clear things up.
After you work it mowing, you will get a good idea of the engines actual condition.
The base of the aircleaner of a higher hour engine, can have a coating of oil on it, but not wet or dripping.
You will feel a little air coming out of the crankcase vent hose, but not a much.
You can finish the mowing season if all is well, and might think about cleaning the carbon out of the combustion chambers during the off season, but a lot of engines run just fine with carbon in them.
It might take several mowings depending on your acreage, to get the intake system free of oil residue.

Also I'm a big fan of precleaner foam sock around the paper air cleaner, and oil it!
I use FFT,( foam filter treatment) as it worked fantastic on my dirt bikes.
It pours on thinner than water, squeeze it out quickly and wallah, it changes viscosity to about heavy gear oil, and will not run off.
if you use it and see what the precleaner looks like after 1 mowing you will understand the job it does.

[sorner]

Thanks George. This won't be my main mowing machine. It'll be a backup to my 1864, and hoping to use it for plowing snow and garden, and other odds and ends. I want to modify it so I can run my GT decks on both tractors. I have everything to do it, but the motor condition is the main question mark. I don't want to do too much to it before I know what's going on inside. Are the KT engines roughly similar to the K series? I have experience rebuilding a K series and decarboning that, and tuning the timing, and all that. So if the engine is sound I think I can keep it going for a while.

My CH18 that is on the 1864 had similar smoking when I got it and I rebuilt the breather, replaced seals, etc. It was soaking the inside of the air filter too, and it took a mowing or two to clear it out. I keep checking it and it is one dry in there, maybe a slight film but definitely not what it was doing. Hopefully the same luck with the KT will follow.

[sorner]

...And it looks like I posted this in the wrong forum, I finally looked up the model/serial, and I have a 1984 CCC made 682. Model 144682100 serial 732662. (check my work)

[sorner]

I put a new air filter on it and ran for a while and it seems the smoke has stopped. But there still seems to be a decent amount of oil in the air filter area. So how much is normal for an engine of this type and age?

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[ol'George]

It is going to put more oil into the air cleaner as the hours get higher,just the nature of things.
A new,and broken in engine, will not put any oil there.
As I've said before, it should not be slobbering oil, but wet on the bottom is common for an older engine.
@ this point, you have repaired the breather area correctly, so use it and enjoy it.
If it gets to a point where the oil in there is excessive/dripping and you feel it needs to be corrected then address it @ that time.
Do use a 30W oil as that is what is specified in summer.

[sorner]

Thanks George.