Troy Bilt tiller

[6869704x4]

Reading another thread about these machines. I think old paint and another member. I have my Dads from 1980. 20 years ago the original Briggs 8 horse decided the rod wanted to be outside. Replaced with a Kohler Command 8 horse. Been tilling ever since. Last week I go to get the garden ready. After sitting outside for about a year(my bad) it started on the first pull. Two cans of fix a flat in one tire and it's still leaking. Got the garden tilled though. I replaced the axle seals a couple of years ago. Those new seals leaked worse than the old ones.
Anyway, this thing is still awesome. Troy Bilt is not the same

 

[William1]

I have a Troy-Bilt Pony, about 25 years old. Power forward and reverse. Small Briggs on it, perhaps 3hp, plenty. The thing never has wanted to start. Always takes 20 pulls. I think it has an auto-decompressor, really not needed on a small engine and that makes firing it off more difficult. Leaks a tablespoon of gear oil a year, I suspect because vines or what ever get wrapped around the tine shaft and into the seals.

 

[GreensvilleJay]

I just sold my last REAL Troybilt Horse( 6hp, single speed,no PTO). Far too big for the garden now. I heard that when MTD bought Troybilt, they dumpstered a LOT of the parts,probably to require you to buy their new version of the tillers. BTW it's cheaper to toss an 'offshore' 7HP engine than buy a NOS magneto for the 6HP Tecumseh engine.

 

[skeets]

My old TB is the HORSE, was powered by a Kolar 6 HP I think, well it gave up the ghost. No luck finding any one that would work on the old one so it sat. And I saw a post on youtube, and mounted a HF motor ,,, it is basically a Honda motor, only thing I needed was one longer bolt off the crank, still havent figured out how to use a thumb control for the gas, but at an idle it will pull you outa your socks

 

[6869704x4]

I forgot that detail. It's a Horse model.