What the heck are these?????

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walkinman

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SAM_0608.jpgSAM_0608.jpgSAM_0607.jpgSAM_0607.jpgSAM_0603.jpgHi. I'm trying to rebuild a Kohler M8 engine from a Troy Bilt Horse Roto tiller. The machine was loaned to my kid brother who disassembled the engine , put the parts in a box and forgot about them for a long time, (God save us from relatives doing "favors"). I recently got the mess back, and am trying to figure out what is what and what I'm missing. The job is harder because at some time the aluminum parts became VERY heavily oxidised and corroded. I,m posting a couple of pics with 2, (or perhaps it's 3 parts I cannot identify). For all I know they may not even belong to this Kohler...... Please look and tell me if they even look familiar to you. Thanks, I'll forever be in your debt.
 

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The parts don't look like anything that go's on a Troy-Built roto tiller with a Kohler 8 HP Magnum. What ever they are they don't look useable. Just what is apart on the engine and where in the world was it sitting? If you go to the Kohler web sight you will find some very good repair manuals. Kohler isn't afraid to share information.
 
benski said:
Perhaps something to do with blade holder mechanism?
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NO, I dont think they were part of any blade holder. I kinda thought that perhaps the smaller piece, which has been broached for a roll pin, (apparently), might fit on the output shaft. The ID of the piece is however too great for that, and besides, Kohler isn't so dumb as to bore through the crank for a lousy roll pin; it would have been keyed instead. As the line goes from "The King And I": It's a puzzlement. The larger piech with the nylon inserts I thought might be in some way connected with the ignition system. Now I'm kinda leaning toward the lot being miscellaneous junk that got added to the box and is in no way part of the machine.
 
chance123 said:
Perhaps because of the angles of that one piece it is (was) part of the recoil starter?
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I thought of that as well, but no longer do; the recoil starter is one of the few engine "externals" that is still intact in it's housing...... thank God for small miracles. Still, those inserts DO appear to be some sort of insulator, and as they are set on an angle, would appear to ride on something that moves in and out.
 
reynoldston said:
The parts don't look like anything that go's on a Troy-Built roto tiller with a Kohler 8 HP Magnum. What ever they are they don't look useable. Just what is apart on the engine and where in the world was it sitting? If you go to the Kohler web sight you will find some very good repair manuals. Kohler isn't afraid to share information.
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Yeah, I'm coming to believe that these pieces are not part of the machine either; perhaps just some extraneous junk that got thrown into that box just to screw with my mind. As far as usability goes, I doubt if even a scrap metal dealer would be willing to take them. I am in Kohlers debt as I have been able to obtain a master parts manual for the 301609 series M8 engine. Nowhere in the manual can I find ANYTHING that resembles these parts, which is why I ask you good gentlemen for help. As to where these poor parts were to have come out looking like they had a picnic in Hell, my brother returned them to my ex-wife whose boyfriend stored them in a wet cellar in Amsterdam, NY. From there they went to St Louis Missouri, and into a very wet Garage. They finally made it back to me in Pennsylvania, and hence my "Mission Semi-Impossible". One thing, I AM dogged and don't quit. By God, I'll have that machine up and running again by October.
 
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