Psychlopath
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I have an old Snapper RER, model 33114S with a Briggs 12.5HP L head that burns about a quart of oil and hour and only has about 60PSI on a compression test. Oddly enough, it only has noticeable smoke on startup; after a valve job didn't change anything significantly, I've been looking into rebuilding the engine, but I just had a chance call from a friend who has an 18.5HP Intek Plus engine (PN:31p7770348e1) that he'll give me for the price of picking it up...about a 3 hour drive away.
He said it has about 10 hours but has a camshaft with a bad lobe, which seems somewhat common on those engines from some forums I've been reading.
Anyhow, since I dont have the engine here to compare to the current flat head engine, I was wondering if anyone here can tell me if this will easily work on this mower.
I've never had a decent over head valve engine for my mowers, so for just the work of installing a new camshaft, it sounds tempting to me but I dont know if the output shaft will work with the Snapper pulley or if I'll have trouble with the throttle cable, choke or anything else working with the mower.
I've tried to read about engine swaps on these, but haven't seen one using an 18.5 Intek for a swap on my particular mower.
Any thoughts on the matter would be welcome.
He said it has about 10 hours but has a camshaft with a bad lobe, which seems somewhat common on those engines from some forums I've been reading.
Anyhow, since I dont have the engine here to compare to the current flat head engine, I was wondering if anyone here can tell me if this will easily work on this mower.
I've never had a decent over head valve engine for my mowers, so for just the work of installing a new camshaft, it sounds tempting to me but I dont know if the output shaft will work with the Snapper pulley or if I'll have trouble with the throttle cable, choke or anything else working with the mower.
I've tried to read about engine swaps on these, but haven't seen one using an 18.5 Intek for a swap on my particular mower.
Any thoughts on the matter would be welcome.