[Wayne195]

Hello gents!
I just started a little work on a Kohler PRO 25 hp engine from a 200? Craftsman GT5000. I bought this tractor about 4 months ago, not knowing that it had any problems at all (I didn't check it out thorough enough). When I brought it home I noticed that it had a smoking problem. Sometimes it was really bad and other times it would be barely visible, but it was obvious that it needed attention. I was going to my local lawnmower shop anyway with another tractor so I took it along and had him diagnose that problem. He know right away that the head-gasket was the issue since that is a very common problem with this series. The bad news was that he said it wasn't exactly cheap to fix it. Because of the time it involved he said I got hime to do the work it would be a minimum of $350. I definitely wasn't going to take the risk because I already paid a good bit for the tractor. It's been sitting around here the last few weeks because I didn't have time to start another project, but things thinned out the last few days so I decided to get at it. Yesterday I pulled the tractor into the shop and took the engine off and opened it up .

Here are two pictures of what I accomplished in about 2 1/2 hours of work.

 

[Wayne195]

Wew, this project is just not getting done. Somehow my attention has been going to other things and work has been pretty busy for me the last few weeks. I determined that engine should have a full overhaul to make it worth it and I guess I'm not too eager to tackle that yet, especially since I only get short snatches of spare time and that generally doesn't work well with tedious work like this.