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Posted by alby (My Page) on Wed, Jun 17, 09 at 18:22
| Kohler small engines manufactured in China are on an Ariens branded mower at HD and a Husqvarna branded mower also, both walk-behinds. Does anyone know whether the quality of these engines is on a par with their larger engines.
Husqvarna's website shows that their new models will be sporting the Honda GCV 160 instead. But that could be either because of poor performance from the Kohlers or a good sales job from Honda. |
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| I'm curious about the new Kohler walk behind engine's reliability, too. On paper, it looks good---commercial grade components and a design similar to the Honda GXV walk behind engine. How's it holding up in real world use? |
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- Posted by canguy British Columbia (My Page) on
Thu, Jun 18, 09 at 1:05
| Trust me, the Chinese Kohlers do not meet the GXV standard although they seem to be o.k. for a consumer mower. I sold a few and ran into carb problems with them. Seems the factory uses either a very poor grade of fuel for initial run up or a gummy preservative for shipment. Every one needed the fuel system completely flushed before it would run. |
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| From my pass experiences most stuff from china should stay there.A chinese built engine of any kind is very cheap and extremely low quality.Kohler used to be a very good name but like most companies these days they had to look to china so that they could stay in business. |
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| My position is I do not care where the engine is built a name product is a name product. If a company starts building crap then they will join GM. Once you loose your name it is almost impossible to get it back. ask GM. |
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| "From my pass experiences most stuff from china should stay there." Agree. Walt Conner |
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Rolm GM did not get itself into trouble by building crap it was the constant demands the union made like the crazy wages!Here in Canada some of the workers were getting $70/hr and outragious benefits too.Nowonder cars are so pricy today.
The union is a good thing cuz it prevents companies from screwing it's workers but look what it can do to a company over time ie. GM |
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Do not go blaming the unions for the down turn of GM. They do not make $70 per hour. They are getting $25 to $30 in wages and there benefits package
is maybe another $20 on top of that.
Ya just can not believe every thing that you hear on the TV
I really hate when people talk out there butthole.
The Non union car plants make close to the same $ with out a pention plan. |
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GM simply had too many divisions and brand models competing against each other in the US. Plus the unions bleed them dry with their pension and benefit demands.
Now back to lawn mowers |
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| The Courage engines use plastic cam shaft gears. Everything that I've read states that these gears fail in as little as 5 hours causing catastrophic failure. Many shops back this up. I emailed Kohler to ask if they are remedying this with metal gears....no reply. I'll go with briggs. I really wanted an Ariens mower but they can keep them. I'll go with the sears version with the briggs. same mower, different eng. |
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| Plastic gears??OMG what next? |
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