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A man I kind of know through my part time job told me several months ago about a old sears he had in the shed.
He said his boy told him he was mowing with it and the engine locked up. Well, I finally went and got it today. I guess it was clean out the shed time. He gave me the sears, 3 extra rear tires and wheels for it, set of wheel weights and a new pressure washer with a 6 1/2 hp briggs that needs a pump. He also told me he has all the original papers and manuals for the sears and would dig them out for me. I got it home, dumped some gas in it and hooked up the jumper cables and it runs smooth as hell, sounds good and no noises. all it needs is a seat. it's in good enough shap I'm goin to leave it the way it is. It must have set long enough it fixed it's self. It's got the 16 hp onan twin, 3 speed tranny with high low.

Some people have all the luck........Good looking rig.....any deck with it?

poncho62 wrote:

Some people have all the luck........Good looking rig.....any deck with it?

Your telling me...lol I must be living right. Got the deck in the back of the truck. It's not as good a shape as the tractor, but it will work.

Nice tractor I use my old sears tractors all the time especially the 66 with the grader blade

JD, how do you sleep at night???

Gtractor wrote:

JD, how do you sleep at night???

With both eyes open and a gun in my hand just like you.

yeah, but my guns loaded!

I loaded mine once, shot my toe off

Just a one thing with that tractor if the hood hinges are good be real careful with them they usually are all broke and very hard to find!! that is a great looking all stock tractor you are going to love it!

i wanna know why he thought the motor locked up?

tracktor312 wrote:

Just a one thing with that tractor if the hood hinges are good be real careful with them they usually are all broke and very hard to find!! that is a great looking all stock tractor you are going to love it!

I already love it. pulled the lawn sweeper for a couple hours today and this thing is smooth and it feels like it's got power steering. Seems to be a solid old mower. Oh, the hinges are actualy in real good shape, everything on it is in real good shape, been well takin care of.

Jared Olson for SO IL wrote:

i wanna know why he thought the motor locked up?

He said his boy was using it and it started locking up... I guess he never looked at it. Just took the word of a stupid teenager and you see where that went...

JD wrote:

tracktor312 wrote:

Just a one thing with that tractor if the hood hinges are good be real careful with them they usually are all broke and very hard to find!! that is a great looking all stock tractor you are going to love it!

I already love it. pulled the lawn sweeper for a couple hours today and this thing is smooth and it feels like it's got power steering. Seems to be a solid old mower. Oh, the hinges are actualy in real good shape, everything on it is in real good shape, been well takin care of.

I hope you put a seat on it b4 doin this

Jared Olson for SO IL wrote:

i wanna know why he thought the motor locked up?

He knows he ran it outta oil! When I was 7 I ran my minibike outta oil until it locked up. Couldn't even pull the rope!! When it cooled down it was loose and I put oil in and it was OK. I've done that with a push mower too. Both were Briggs.

Gtractor wrote:

Jared Olson for SO IL wrote:

i wanna know why he thought the motor locked up?

He knows he ran it outta oil! When I was 7 I ran my minibike outta oil until it locked up. Couldn't even pull the rope!! When it cooled down it was loose and I put oil in and it was OK. I've done that with a push mower too. Both were Briggs.

I thought of that, but the thing had oil in it and it looked like it had been in it for a while, but you never know. It doesnt leak oil or smoke so I really don't see it being run out of oil. Hell, who knows.

Jared Olson for SO IL wrote:

JD wrote:

tracktor312 wrote:

Just a one thing with that tractor if the hood hinges are good be real careful with them they usually are all broke and very hard to find!! that is a great looking all stock tractor you are going to love it!

I already love it. pulled the lawn sweeper for a couple hours today and this thing is smooth and it feels like it's got power steering. Seems to be a solid old mower. Oh, the hinges are actualy in real good shape, everything on it is in real good shape, been well takin care of.

I hope you put a seat on it b4 doin this

Yes Jared I put the seat on it. It came with a ragged ole seat, I didnt have it on yet when I took the pics.

Got the deck put on and everything working and finally got to try it out. Think I've got a new favorite this week.
This old dog works like new. I can't get over how well everything still works on it and mows great in high gear.

The Sears let me down last night. I was mowing the front yard and started smelling something burnin and being who I am, I kept mowin lol. Finally a puff of smoke came from under the belt cover on the deck. I think the idler pulley pooped out on me. Had to finish with the Homie and the deck settings aint exactly the same so now I've got some really cool stripes in front of the house.

Got the foot operated pto pedal for the sears today. Beats the hell outta fallin outta the seat every time I kick the blades in.



Hope I mounted it right.