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off color JD 240 engine rebuild

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Topic: off color JD 240 engine rebuild

Posted By: Mrgoodwrench
Subject: off color JD 240 engine rebuild
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2014 at 6:23pm

While mowing Saturday my little JD developed a bad rattle noise. On inspection I found the shaft for the counterweight had come loose. I tightened the nuts and restarted, engine runs OK but has a light noise. A assume the bushing on the counterweight has to be messed up. The question is are these Kawasaki fc420v rebuildable at a reasonable price? Looking at the JD sight it seems some of the parts are NLA and a quick internet search didn't do much better

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There are 3 ways to do job GOOD, FAST, CHEAP. YOU MAY CHOOSE 2. If its FAST & CHEAP it won't be GOOD, if it's GOOD & CHEAP it won't be FAST, and if its GOOD & FAST it won't be CHEAP!!!!

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Posted By: Mrgoodwrench
Date Posted: 18 Jun 2014 at 8:31pm

John Deere discontinued counter weight and bushing so probably screwed.

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There are 3 ways to do job GOOD, FAST, CHEAP. YOU MAY CHOOSE 2. If its FAST & CHEAP it won't be GOOD, if it's GOOD & CHEAP it won't be FAST, and if its GOOD & FAST it won't be CHEAP!!!!