my lawn boy 2 stroke mowing the yard

[Deleted member 83629]

I owe you guys photos- sorry I was away for the weekend, I'll get some today. I can tell you that it is a yellow shroud, green deck, and the recoil assembly mounts 90* to the crank/flywheel, near the 7:00 position if you are standing behind the mower. It works similar to a motorcycle kickstart- with a gear on a "threaded" bushing that moves inward towards the flywheel when engaged, and self retracts as the pull cord is released and the flywheel spins.

Looks like this:

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type in these part numbers at https://www.rcpw.com/
recoil spring --- 604257
starter pulley --- 609457
starter pinion --- 609133
spring ------------609229
washer -----------609005
retaining ring ---609004
You can only get the entire assembly used or NOS around ebay or a old shop having the parts laying around you can still buy the parts but not the assembly.

 

[Deleted member 83629]

Yellow shroud? Huh. Never seen one of those, other than on a Yard-Man.

a standard lawn boy from the 80's used a F series engine 4 hp.

 

[mexicanyella]

That shroud is shaped like the one on my parts mower (8237), only mine's green instead of yellow. Air intake slots on top in sort of a rear-facing u-shape, black two-piece air shroud underneath the colored part.

Both my runner and parts mower have F engines.

 

[joe25DA]

I am on a grounds crew at a private school and mow 10 lawns on the side. I have 4 mowers 3 blowers 2 trucks...I'm over equipped in other words and don't even ask about saws. I've run 2 and 4 strokes. For 4 stroke all I run is Kawasaki, my 36" toro has a big kawi on it and I had a 21" proline toro that had the 6hp version. Honda is good as long as it the GX series and not the timing belt equipped gc engines.
Right now I have 2 low hour pro line 21" Toros with the Suzuki 2 stroke. Best 21" engine ever. Plenty of power and bullet proof. EPA is only reason they are gone. Old lawnboys are wAy cool too. Here's the only 2 I have pics of on phone

 

[joe25DA]

The other 2

 

[Deleted member 83629]

looks like a toro 222040

 

[DrewUth]

a standard lawn boy from the 80's used a F series engine 4 hp.
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Sorry for the delay in getting a picture of the tag up:

 

[Big Block]

Thanks. Now I want one.

 

[Big Block]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

well I mowed a rural cemetery on the 3rd of this month and the grass was pretty tall about 7 inches in spots and the mower did fine
of course the owner only wants it mowed once a month because of the lack of funding and it can turn into a jungle in now time I will post a video to show you guys how well it does in tall grass. yeah im a diehard lawnboy fan.

 

[troylee]

Has anyone ported a lawnboy?

 

[rburg]

The 1st lawn boy I ran was in the late 60's. It was the first self-propelled mower I had ever use. In the mid 70's I ran several lawn boys when I did summer work on a school maintenance department.