1990 Toro GroundsMaster 72

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bought this last year, was running poorly and then started to smoke real bad and died........parked it for the time being, which ended up being 8 months, LOL

Pushed into the garage yesterday and started to tear into it........easy little engine to work on. Through research I discovered that the engine is a Renault
and I was able to locate many of the parts for the engine overseas. Here are a few photos of how far I got with it last night.
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Well, we see you'll be busy for the next day or 2 ...( LOL ) Keep us updated & please keep up with the pics
I hope your project goes fast and well , best of luck, take care !! ..:thumbsup:
 

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cleaned up the block and cylinder head. cleaned the grease off the fan and painted it, was meant to be yellow, but the wife used that can when I wasn't looking, so all I had left was chrome and gold so, gold it is. I like the way it looks so I painted the valve cover to match. I got the head bolted down, and the valves adjusted...placed the cave cover on it just to see how it would look...Me Likie!
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I noticed the radiator had broken free from it's mount and was sitting on top of the drive shaft assembly housing, so I lifted it back into placed and soldered back together
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had it running today around lunch time
 

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I made a quick video clip
 

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I bought a parts machine back in April, just in case the engine on mine was toast...turns out I now have alot of spare parts
 

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Just realized that when I started this thread that I posted it as a 1990, well the donor is the 1990 and this one is a 1984.
 

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this is the parts machine, if someone needs something send me a pm, and I will see what I can do.
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