Here are mine. The lawn boy was given to me by a friend when we bought our house a couple years ago. It doesn't run the best, but its light and maneuverable. the Snapper I just picked up last weekend for $40 off of craigslist. I was looking into getting a bagging kit and hi lift blade for the lawn boy and then thought maybe I'll try and find a used bagger and decided to start looking for a snapper as I've always liked them since I was a kid. Its helped me rediscover how much I loved working on mowers. I also have a rear bagger lawn boy that my dad bought new back in 84 and left me right before he passed away a year and a half ago. Its been sitting for 8 years out at my moms house and I fully intend to restore it, but having a 2 month old in the house doesn't leave me much time, or money to tackle something that major, so hopefully in a couple years. I will get pics of it as soon as I get out to my moms house sometime.
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Also, I don't know if anyone here can tell me the year of the snapper by looking at the serial number? I haven't had any luck figuring it out so far. I tried going by the numbers on the engine cover, but I'm not so sure the engine is original, or atleast the cover. The sticker on it is faded and I believe says 4h.p., but I don't believe they had a 4h.p. on these that long ago. Engine model # is 92908, Type # is 1826 01, and the Code # is 77110208 which I believe would make it a 77, but like I said, I don't know if its the original engine cover.
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More likely a 14 HP - There should be numbers on a sticker placed on the tube that connects the front and rear (closer to under seat) and stamped into muffler.
The Snapper site should have a chart for serial # years.
Good Luck !
The Snapper site should have a chart for serial # years.
Good Luck !
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Afoulk that Snapper is cool! Looks like somewhere between a 1976-1979 model. I have a 1974 model...looks the same but the drive handle is on the left side. Anxious to see the rider too. Welcome.
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OOPs I don't know where i got rider from. I mis-read your post there. I saw rear-bagger and thought rear-engine-rider. Still looking foreward to the rear-bagger pics too. I wish I could find an old bricktop Lawnboy around here but they never pop up.
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Yes it looks like a '77 model. Check the serial number on the deck. The first digit is the last digit in the year it was built. If it starts with a 7 then it's a '77 model. My V210P s/n is 444466...'74 model. That works with '80s models too. Snapper actually told me that.
Sorry for the confusion guys. I'm so used to seeing the lawn boys with the off set front wheels and bag hanging off the side that I always referred to them as a side bagger. My dads old one had the more conventional style deck with the bag handing off the back of it. Thus the reason I called it a rear bagger.
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Hi all - I'm new here. I have a few pics. During the winter I encountered something I think is called "operator error" when changing the oil in my John Deere GT242 with the Kawasaki 14 HP motor.
It was dark and cold, and I was cold and in a dark mood. Anyway what I thought went in the oil fill and what actually went in there turned out to be two different amounts of oil and I established with certainty that the engine's tolerance for oil starvation was somewhere other than where I ended up. The tractor started and made it all the way to the bottom of the driveway, obediently blowing snow. It then went from full power to Armageddon in 4 seconds, blowing the bottom of the crankcase out and impaling the battery with crankcase shrapnel. This one was not going to buff out.
Meet LAZARUS. It's repowered with a Briggs Intek v-twin, about 18 horse. I had a heck of a time with the tractor electricals though, finally opting to pull the lot and rewiring the whole thing from scratch. It works well but the motor is a little beefy for the hood, which I'm planning to trim to fit.
I could get used to this stuff...
It was dark and cold, and I was cold and in a dark mood. Anyway what I thought went in the oil fill and what actually went in there turned out to be two different amounts of oil and I established with certainty that the engine's tolerance for oil starvation was somewhere other than where I ended up. The tractor started and made it all the way to the bottom of the driveway, obediently blowing snow. It then went from full power to Armageddon in 4 seconds, blowing the bottom of the crankcase out and impaling the battery with crankcase shrapnel. This one was not going to buff out.
Meet LAZARUS. It's repowered with a Briggs Intek v-twin, about 18 horse. I had a heck of a time with the tractor electricals though, finally opting to pull the lot and rewiring the whole thing from scratch. It works well but the motor is a little beefy for the hood, which I'm planning to trim to fit.
I could get used to this stuff...
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Well that does not sound good were did oil go?? It happens. But looks like you are on the road to recovery bet it does sound tougher going to 14 to 18 HP Be good to see it when you get hood done if you don't want to make old hood over get on from a bigger size mower and get new stickers for your 242 I did that on one of my 425 Deere put new x485 hoods on and got a lable set for my 425 and put them on new hood and worked great and looked nice too. Good luck nice job on engine swap Have a good on Gary