Look what I found . . .

[$1987 GN$]

1970 Lawn Boy.
Was at my Dad's place still have to get a lot of stuff out of there some day.
Anyway cleaned it up a little.

Later AJ

 

[JOHNDEEREGN]

Thats a slick little unit it is just the wrong shade of green for my taste hahahaha:biggrin:

 

[Project TNX]

2 stroke? My next lawn mower will be 2 stroke, they cut like hell.

 

[turbopete]

Oh, man

I used to use one of those to mow lawns for a few bucks back in high school...

 

[turbofish38]

I used to mow lawns with one of those too. I would have been 10 years old back in the summer of 70. Dad would keep a 55 gal drum of pre mix just so us kids wouldn't seize up the motor. J/K on that. A 2 gallon can was always at the ready. My dad was a Chrysler man and Lawn Boy was a subsidiary of Mopar and Mercury Marine if I remember. Yep just like a 125 dirt bike will kick the snot out of a 400 4 stroke these had some bite to them. That would look right at home with the tractors displayed at the county fair if you ask me.

 

[$1987 GN$]

I found the bill of sale for it Dad paid 79 dollars for it.
I tried to scan it to put it up here but no go even tried taking a pic of it too faded to show up.

OMC made them back then. I did replace the coil on it. Called a place they told me 65 bux for the coil; I get there to pick it up and the guy at the counter tells me 91 ! I tell him the guy that I talked to told me 65. Well I said thanks but no thanks and left. I called a couple other places found one with the coil in stock, 38 bux; off I go, he said hang on and comes to the counter and he says have a good day. I was like how much; he said have fun. (used but looked new) Anyhow I wonder how long the new ones will last. One pump of the primer, starts on the first pull. I do need to replace the pull cord it is stiff for the first 8 inches.

Later AJ

 

[jpratt]

Too bad Lawn Boy does nto make the 2 stoke any more, darn emissions standards.

 

[DCVING 6]

My parents still use their original lawn boy mower to trim with. They got it in 1975 as a wedding gift and it is still kicking. NEVER been rebuilt!

 

[John Larkin]

Ours used to be a biotch for me to start. It would wear me down. Didn't know much about engines back then other than sparkplug, airfilter and gas.

 

[Butchman]

Learned how to mow with one just like that but it was self propelled. My dads to was a pain in the a$$ to start sometimes too. He blew the head gasket and my buddy and I fixed it. What a pain. They have a one piece cylinder so you can't just take the head off. Not to mention the bolts were metric and we only had a couple wrenches from our snowmobile tool kit that were metric.