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Subject Author Date Engines SteveB 12-05-2007  Re: Engines Ecnerwal 12-05-2007  Re: Engines steamer 12-05-2007  Re: Engines Rob Fraser 12-05-2007  Re: Engines Big Al 12-06-2007  Re: Engines Rob Fraser 12-06-2007  Re: Engines Rob Fraser 12-07-2007  Re: Engines jp2express 12-07-2007  Re: Engines Rob Fraser 12-07-2007  Re: Engines SteveB 12-05-2007  Re: Engines RoyJ 12-05-2007  Re: Engines Joe Brophy 12-07-2007  Re: Engines Gunner 12-07-2007
Posted by SteveB on December 5, 2007, 12:21 am Please log in for more thread options Kohler, Robin/Subaru, Honda ....... others ....... What's the best engine for a Lincoln welder in the Ranger 250 class? Ease of maintenance, parts availability, longevity, things like that. Steve Posted by Ecnerwal on December 5, 2007, 12:33 am Please log in for more thread options > Kohler, Robin/Subaru, Honda ....... others ....... What's the best engine > for a Lincoln welder in the Ranger 250 class? Ease of maintenance, parts > availability, longevity, things like that. > > Steve Not Onan. Honda's are probably the best, though I have not seen one as an option - but then I have not been shopping lately. Kohler is a lot better than Onan. -- Cats, coffee, chocolate...vices to live by Posted by steamer on December 5, 2007, 1:46 pm Please log in for more thread options         --A cautionary tale about Honda engines: last night I had occasion to check on the newly-installed generator a few hours after I turned it on. My pal, who's camping in the guest cottage got up early and woke me up to show what was happening. Exhaust consisted of a flame about a foot long; gas can, maybe 3ft away (not enough) was HOT and covered with soot. Close call, yes? -- "Steamboat Ed" Haas : Whatever happened Hacking the Trailing Edge! : to Tom Nelson? www.nmpproducts.com ---Decks a-wash in a sea of words--- Posted by Rob Fraser on December 5, 2007, 4:54 pm Please log in for more thread options > Rob, > > Could you elaborate on B&S? Did they stop trying to make quality, or > something else? > > Since owning old B&S lawnmowers back in the 70s, I've always been a fan - > but that doesn't mean I don't need to update my outlook on the company. > > I've got a little Onan 16 that works great. It is old and doesn't see many > hours, but it still goes. Maybe I'll start hating the thing if it ever > needs work done to it. :) > I noticed a problem with B&S when a friend had a go-kart track and had tons of failed engines. For the winter he pitched them all and went to Honda and his MTBF went down I helped him by making the new chain guards and cut the panels for the change in the starter ropes. (40 rental karts) The contractors complain about the quality of the machines just basically shaking apart or cracking cases or heads on stampers, pumps and site generators. They just seem to have declined in the quality. No the odd part comes here in a saving grace to B&S. In the junior dragster class all the engines are modified B&S or B&S clones and they are putting out 50-70hp (No joke) Most of them are billet with sleeves and just physically resemble the B&S castings. No Honda's no others in the class but I know nothing of them so I have no business to speak to what they are. My gen. is a Honda. My Brother's Father in Law is a small engine guy and swears by Honda and swears at B&S for letting quality lapse. Next time your near a highway project or construction site take a peek at what's running. Surprisingly, I have seen more Honda's than anything else. The Honda clones are crap I think we all know that already.... Respects, Rob Posted by Big Al on December 6, 2007, 1:40 am Please log in for more thread options "Rob Fraser" <FraserRacing"AT"RobFraser.Net> wrote in message > No the odd part > comes here in a saving grace to B&S. In the junior dragster class all the > engines are modified B&S or B&S clones and they are putting out 50-70hp > (No joke) Most of them are billet with sleeves and just physically > resemble the B&S castings. No Honda's no others in the class but I know > nothing of them so I have no business to speak to what they are. They HAVE to be B&S engines. And I seriously doubt if even one part was actually made by them. Al Similar Threads Posted COMPETITION ENGINES October 22, 2007, 2:19 pm Re: RDF AT FRASER COMPETITION ENGINES October 18, 2007, 1:01 pm