Shear Key is best case scenario and I hope it did fail - fairly easy fix. After the key you are looking at more unpleasant things like a bent crankshaft, dropped valve, etc.
RonB
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Depends on age of the mower. I bent the shaft on a fairly new 6hp Snapper a few years ago and got it fixed for less than $200. Beats
2-3 times that for a new replacement.RonB
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Not necessarily. How old is the mower? I hit a stump with a 6hp Snapper about 6 years ago and bent the crank. A local mower shop fixed it for less than $200. That was a lot better than 2-3 times that for a new Snapper and we are still using it.
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Damn. too far.
nate
(my ex's car was apart for about 2 years - no lie - because she would never help me put the intercooler and front bumper back on after the supercharger shat the bed, and I couldn't do it by myself. Eventually I think she sold it to a friend of a friend, still in pieces, for pennies on the dollar.)
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That's possible. I lived in a rented house in MI and the yard was a disaster of stumps and roots and rocks, and as much as I tried to maintain it, eventually I'd always forget and hit something with the mower - which also belonged to my landlord. I had a stash of flywheel keys in the garage for just that purpose, because said landlord wasn't handy at all and if a mower stopped running he'd just give it away and buy a new one which seemed like an unnecessary expense. I could usually get 2 or 3 hits out a flywheel key before it'd stop running, but it would run noticeably better right after replacement and slowly get worse over time. Then eventually I'd hit something hard and do it in and spend half an hour replacing the key again.
nate