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i was considering buying one but i have never heard of eager 1, is it good, reliable, who makes it??
It is a pricy mower, but that has nothing to do with the engine. Many manufacturers of mowers use different brands of engines including Tecomseh (sp?), Briggs and Stratton and Kohler.
I put a good used engine on the Smokey Toro I got in a couple weeks ago.
I replaced the entire block From a Eager-1 engine off a craftsman ...
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I knock on the door, and a spry old gentlemen with a flannel shirt and workman pants pulled up over his stomach with suspenders greets me with a firm handshake and beckons me to an overstuffed chair in his small living room. We exchange pleasantries, and I learn he is 91 years old and had spent 45 years as a railroad engineer. He has lived in Cary his entire life, and after his wife passed away, he started tinkering with mowers. I obey, and the Tecumseh engine roars to life but then quickly begins to stall in its usual fashion. But just before it completely dies, he gently places his index finger over the hole and, lo-and-behold, the engine coughs and cycles back to full power! It tries to stall again, but with perfect timing he chokes off the hole just enough to maintain that magic mixture of fuel and air. After a few more taps the engine is running steadily and better than ever. “Give ’r a try,” he says, pointing to a patch of grass. I am so ecstatic that I mow his whole backyard....
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