People in Gardenland are very nice until you need service!!!! I don't have any recommendation on other dealers. I bought my back pack blower from MMI in Sunnyvale since. But no experience on service. I am planning to fix everything myself. I made the mistake of letting Gardenland took care of the trimmer thinking it is under warrantee. I know it is the carburetor already, figure why fix it if it is under warrantee. The mading thing is even after paying $85, the trimmer never got fixed. I have to end up doing it after all!!! Gardenland make a lot of fuzz about old gas, they make you watch a video about old gas before letting you go after buying stuff. And when they know I am a home owner, they just don't even borther to listen anymore and came back claiming old gas. They did get very rude when I started arguing. I am actually consider buying online if the price is a lot cheaper and maintaining it myself. Mower do cut grass, cheap or fancy!!! That is the reason I make two suggestion, one of them is buy cheap and use it as dispossable. My TroyBilt is MTD which I believe make Craftsman and Cub. The deck is very thin, you hit something, you bend the deck!!!. YOu can try the Toro lower model in Home Depot. It all depend on whether you just want to mow the lawn or you want to get a fancy mower. I want a fancy mower so I am going for the commercial one, if you are not, save the pain of dealing with the dealer service and get dispossible one. 3 of the $229 mower only add up to one decent mower, you are not going to get 7 to 8 years on one mower without any service. That would be $150 on top of the mower!! I like fancy and I am handy, so I have the commercial option. Trouble free for years is over rated. With cheap mower, have trouble, buy a new one, still come out ahead. A lot of LCO use cheaper mower also, I don't think anyone can argue about 5 Craftsman out last one of the best commercial mower and much cheaper before you consider the maintenance. If you worry about warrantee, go to Sears and Lowes, they might sell extended warrantee. I bet they do honor the extended warrantee much better than dealers. I have a lot of experience using extended warrantee from big stores and I found them all very very good. They have to, they are in consummer market, they can't get away what the dealers can. If you want commercial stuff, you have to get it from the dealer or online.

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first of all there should be NO movement when you grab the crank anyone that say's different should take up collecting stamps because they have no idea what they are taking about.as far as the dura force engine when you have the engine off of the mower deck take out the crank seal on the blade side off and see what kind of movement you have if you see the inner race of the crank bearing move then the problem is the bearing spun in the case and now you have play the older LB had a tab on the bearings to keep them from moving the duraforce does not.i worked on about six so far and everyone of them spun the bearing.

I came across this post when I was troubleshooting a 10525 that a neighbor was having trouble starting. I was skeptical but I thought I would try the sanding off the rust and baking trick to ressurect her non-functional coil. Sure enough, it worked. Upon reassembly, the thing started up on the first pull. I knew that my fix might be temporary unless I did something to keep moisture from getting in the coil again so I took it off again and sprayed it with a couple coats of clear acrylic lacquer spray paint after masking the contacts. Only time will tell if this results in a somewhat lasting fix. If it doesn't last, I'll just have to order a 99-2911 replacement coil to get it fixed. Local prices for that part are around $40. subpar - Did you do anything to try to keep the coil waterproofed? If not, that may be worth trying the next time you bake it. ~Irish