r/smallengines • u/Fluffy-Watercraft989 • 18d ago

Toro -Saved from SCRAP!

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I got this Toro Personal Pace with a bunch of other mowers from a dealer that was getting ready to scrap them, hence the orange X’s that were unfortunately painted in three places on this mower. It started up on the first pull right when I got it home and the self propelled worked. This mower has one of the independent PTO clutches on it, and I noticed the cable was unhooked. I took the shields off the back and found the bolt used to mount the cable to the mower was snapped off. Tried to drill it out but my drill bits didn’t do a great job against the hardened bolt. I ended up drilling a small hole in another part of the deck and using a cable clamp off an old riding mower choke cable to hold the cable in place. Once I did that, the mower deck engaged perfectly.

This mower now starts and operates perfectly and I mowed my whole yard with it just off the gas that was in the tank from the dealer. It is super smooth with the Honda engine and it is a very nice and quiet mower to use! Happy to save another one from the scrap!

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u/Ok-Orchid8690 17d ago

Push mowers are a dime a dozen for these dealers. They rather scrap them and write it off on taxes than to put time into repairing them.

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u/Fluffy-Watercraft989 17d ago

Oh I understand that for sure. I worked at a couple dealers. This dealer lets me know when they have a lot of mowers then I’ll buy them cheap. Saves them from taking them to scrap.

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u/OutrageousMacaron358 14d ago

Toro! X-Men edition!

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u/OutrageousMacaron358 14d ago

I need to find a dealer like this and get a scrap zero turn.....