K90 & 91 Score

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So Tom @Shynon texts me about a CL find in WI about a K91 this guy has for sale. Looks decent so asks if I would go get it for him. Sure I says so I call the guy and setup a day. Bonus turns out he was right near a Cabelas and I was sitting on  a $50 gift card that was burning a hole in my pocket. May come home with a Kohler and a new spinning combo!?!? So I pulls into his drive way and check out his house ...holy smokes Beverly Hillbilly mansion has got nothing on this guy!  All concrete driveway got more mix in it than the Hoover Dam! I thought why would this guy have a K91??

 

Meet the guy and walk into a 5 car garage with one of those fancy epoxy floors so clean I woulda ate off it. Got bowled over by the two vintage corvettes, a cherry T bucket and yup you guessed it ...a 1959 Eldorado caddy with tail fins that look like they could fly and bullet taillights ...In pink of course! We immediately hit it off when I blurt out wow. Stairs from the garage to the basement, he flips on the light and whoa. Entire basement walls, this is 3000 sq ft house mind you, filled with shelves filled with vintage small engines, all or mostly all Briggs. More on those later.

He's got not one but two Kohlers setting on a card table. I immediately start to fondle them and after some chit chat throw him a  $60 offer on the '91. For a second I thought geez that was too low he's gonna toss me out but then I figured he didn't make his fortune flipping vintage motors....He had 100 on it CL. He says how bout 75? I says solddd. So on to the '90 I says wadda ya think ya gotta have for this one? He thinks a moment and says I am at 150 on this one...it's all original and got the vintage air cleaner. Had to do a little carb work on it to get it running. Geez that's a little more then I was looking to spend as I don't really have a tractor for this ....yet  I had told him earlier that I didn't really collect engines but rather the tractors they go in...  of course. We  finally settle on 130 and as I am digging in my wallet realize I made the rookie mistake of not covering between the zeros and ended up handing him 210. Told him to buy his wife a nice dress with the extra Lincoln! we both laughed.

Ok enough babbling .... fellas gonna think I am related to Sarge!

 

Tom's K91 first.PO did add the gas tank so he could run it and said he thought it might be off a genny based on the muff. Note the service engine on the tag.

 

I'm sure yer gonna be happy with it Tom ...if not it makes for some nice garage deco at my place.   Funny yet I went to bed last nite with it on that shelf, woke up in a cold sweat at 2 am dreaming it fell off the shelf... had to run out to the shop in my skivvies and take it down ... wakes Cindy up WT*

 

The K90...  nice little gem.... got correct base for a RJ or 'Burb project. I had originally thought this would be a good motor for @Achto as he needs some tins for one he has. Way to nice to part out tho.  Is that the correct muff for your McClean Dan?

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[ACman 7,630]

 score  Jim.....but   of that K90 too !

 

Thanks the anticipation was killing me...  !

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Hold your wheel horses fellas yer drooling faster n I can type !

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[WHNJ701 4,165]

they look decent I had a similar experience recently a guy advertised many small engines for sale, and yes he had many, mostly briggs stuff, I bought all his older kohlers which included 3 k91s which were off leaf blowers, and a some larger kohler cub cadet engines and parts which I sold off, (keeping the k91s for something)

[classiccat 548]

2 bills for 2 mint K's .... you're my new hero  

 

 

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30 minutes ago, jabelman said:

I bought all his older kohlers

Sadly these were his only two....... Briggs man he says not Kohlers ...free country I says ... I did leave my card with him in case he should happen to come across more!

 

This was one of those rare CL scores that one actually enjoys. I could have spent hours chatting with the seller about old iron, cars, tools and what not. He even had a couple of Lennox furnaces in his basement so since he was a very nice gentleman I took a peek at them for him and gave him a couple of furnace filters off the truck. He even let me snap a few of his mind blowing collection. last pic is a water cooled one.

 

 

Here is that genny Dan he said was made in Oshkosh. Pretty sure it's 12VDC the water cooled one above.

 

Had a nice little collection of outboards

 

I asked him if he took these to shows, he says he has a enclosed with flip open sides for display. Most  are meticulously  restored and run but he did have quite a few originals tho. The shelves had mirrors in back of them with cool lighting. He said he worked his way through high school and college in a lawn & garden shop and that's when he started collecting. I'd guess him to be mid 70's in age. Super good guy.

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22 minutes ago, WHX14 said:

Sadly these were his only two....... Briggs man he says not Kohlers ...free country I says ... I did leave my card with him in case he should happen to come across more!

me too I keep in contact when he picks up, he does clean outs etc.. as long as he makes a little above scrap value he is happy, which makes me happy I wish I could buy more of what he has but there is a limit to what you can save, and use and store

[Shynon 7,475]

2 hours ago, WHX14 said:

Funny yet I went to bed last nite with it on that shelf, woke up in a cold sweat at 2 am dreaming it fell off the shelf.

You know I was thinking the same thing when I saw it on the shelf, But that was gonna be one heck of a long cold  walk in my skivvies to take it down  Jim thanks again for picking that up for me and if you ever decide to part with the other one, put me on the list. @Achto maybe I can help you out with the tins you are looking for, let me know what you need and ill look. Jim that looks like it was a fun visit, and all those engines  wow I like that motor wheel must have been fun back in the day.

[WVHillbilly520H 10,376]

@WHX14, the green one is the style fuel tank I'm sorta needing for dad's CC ORIGINAL as I've had the outlet/bung soldered in twice a still ends up leaking any leads another or tips on fixing it correctly, thanks Jeff.

[Achto 29,052]

I'm surprised that your were able to leave Jim. I probably would still be wondering around checking out all of the engines. That's one heck of a collection!

 

3 hours ago, WHX14 said:

Is that the correct muff for your McClean Dan?

 

That one is the same as the one I have now. I did find a muffler for the McLean last year at the Burnett show. New in the box. The seller was hard to deal with, she wouldn't take a penny over $1. I spent a fair amount at her booth, she had a lot of NOS Kohler parts.

 

38 minutes ago, Shynon said:

maybe I can help you out with the tins you are looking for, let me know what you need and ill look

 

Thanks, I'll send you a PM.

[wallfish 17,688]

8 minutes ago, WVHillbilly520H said:

the green one is the style fuel tank I'm sorta needing for dad's CC ORIGINAL as I've had the outlet/bung soldered in twice a still ends up leaking any leads another or tips on fixing it correctly,

The K91 oval tanks are a bit smaller than the larger Kohler oval tanks.

Is that what you need, the small K91 tank?

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1 minute ago, wallfish said:

The K91 oval tanks are a bit smaller than the larger Kohler oval tanks.

Is that what you need, the small K91 tank?

K161/181 the original was a 7hp gen start now 8hp Bendix start. Jim, Sorry to hijack you're post 

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10 minutes ago, wallfish said:

The K91 oval tanks are a bit smaller than the larger Kohler oval tanks.

Is that what you need, the small K91 tank?

Yah this tank is not the same as our under the round hood tanks fellas if that's what you mean

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5 minutes ago, WVHillbilly520H said:

K161/181 the original was a 7hp gen start now 8hp Bendix start. Jim, Sorry to hijack you're post 

 

No problem Billy if it's tractors I'm in! Thieve away! That tanks looks the same as.

 

I woulda waited till this weekend Dan for you to navigate but i know yer jonesin for some RED paint and didn't want to wait too long to score.... sides I was kinda down that way. Coulda used a navigator tho....... Karen (gps) was bein a %itch and not kind! Thats what I thought on the muff.

[WVHillbilly520H 10,376]

Well if ya know any good tips on fixing that dang leaker of an outlet, the sediment bowl hanging off there and that Kohler shaking it for 55 years hasn't helped it any even with resoldering a couple times, but it is nearly rust free on the inside, I was contemplating a brand new plastic version ...

[Achto 29,052]

10 minutes ago, WVHillbilly520H said:

Well if ya know any good tips on fixing that dang leaker of an outlet

 

Not knowing exactly what material the outlet is made of. Could it be brazed instead of soldered?

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17 minutes ago, WVHillbilly520H said:

contemplating a brand new plastic version ...

Oh no lets not go that route Jeffrey... I doubt if it's been brazed by factory not sayin it couldn't be done but not at factory. Brazing woud take a very fine touch to keep from burning through the thin tank steel. Soldering on the other hand is best best done for high production and semi  unskilled labor in the day. More n likely the resoldering attempts have been tryed with unclean or not properly fluxed joints and therfore failed. No way to do it unless the soldered joint is completed disassembled and properly cleaned/refluxed. Solder type is real critic........ Holy schmitz Billy  now you do got me rambling like the Sarge on a windy day!  Lets start a different thread!....how bout dem Packers? 

[WVHillbilly520H 10,376]

I'll have to get some close up pics of the offending culprit and start another thread on the best ways to fix how about that?

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9 hours ago, wallfish said:

a bit smaller than the larger

 

[Racinbob 11,832]

WOW!! Thanks for posting all the cool pictures Jim. I just kept scrolling through them this morning. What a collection, the organization, the cleanliness......amazing.

[Mike'sHorseBarn 3,169]

I'm drooling over this lol     

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1 hour ago, Racinbob said:

the organization, the cleanliness......amazing

Yah really was Bob.... the pics don't really do justice to the detail on some of these. The fact that most were all in running order. I shoulda asked if I could see his shop were he did all his work!