by "E90M3" (e90m3)
Published 02/14/2017 at 15:06
by "E90M3" (e90m3)
Published 02/14/2017 at 15:06
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Wonder how much oil it leaks.
As seen at Costco.
"Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer" (smallbear94)
02/14/2017 at 15:08, STARS: 5
Powerstroke
Subaru
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"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
02/14/2017 at 15:10, STARS: 1
“powered by Subaru” is also likely a lie. EDIT: maybe not!
http://www.subarupower.com/products/engines/ea190v-vertical-shaft-overhead-cam-engine/
I just assumed they would have rebadged a small engines from someone else but nope.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
02/14/2017 at 15:13, STARS: 0
I assume it’s a continuation of Fuji Heavy Industries industrial motors under another name - a.k.a. what used to be a Robin.
"vicali" (vicali)
02/14/2017 at 15:14, STARS: 0
When was the headgasket changed?
oops, canned Subaru response..
"Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer" (smallbear94)
02/14/2017 at 15:14, STARS: 0
No, you can buy just the engines. I thought there was more selection here but still:
http://www.princessauto.com/en/search?Dy=1&Nty=1&Ntt=subaru
"Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer" (smallbear94)
02/14/2017 at 15:14, STARS: 0
I believe you are correct.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
02/14/2017 at 15:15, STARS: 1
It’s what comes of Subaru being Fuji Heavy Industries, with other areas of sales than cars.
"benjrblant" (benjblant)
02/14/2017 at 15:16, STARS: 1
-Electric start (on a 190cc, mind you.)
If you can’t handle the strenuous task of pull-starting a 190cc, you can’t handle the strenuous task of pressure washing.
"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
02/14/2017 at 15:16, STARS: 0
I still think they are rebranded, but its only a hunch. They look like Kohler engines.
"Brickman" (legomaniacman)
02/14/2017 at 15:18, STARS: 0
Also Ford branded Generators. Not a PowerStroke though :P
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
02/14/2017 at 15:18, STARS: 1
I just hope they’ve stepped up their quality game, because I have worked on some real stinkers that were Robin. Admittedly one of said stinkers was “only” worn out, in the way that the valve clearances had closed up and the intake wasn’t sealing. Oh, and then there was the part where it threw a rod, close enough to my face that there were aluminum flakes and oil in my hair. That was fun.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
02/14/2017 at 15:21, STARS: 1
I don’t think so. I used to work on Robins from time to time.
No reason to rebadge someone else’s small motor when you’ve got your own division.
"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
02/14/2017 at 15:22, STARS: 0
neat. Didn’t know that.
"Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer" (smallbear94)
02/14/2017 at 15:23, STARS: 0
Remember the ‘03 blackout? My dad bought a Robin-powered generator in that.
Try as he might he couldn’t get it going... until the power came back on. Just refused to start. Don’t know what was wrong, it worked fine afterwards. But when we needed it... nope.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
02/14/2017 at 15:26, STARS: 0
There’s one excuse for having electric start on a motor that small, and that’s if it’s on a snowblower. A real got-to-start kind of scenario where it might be a little old lady.
Obv. electric start is just fine on a riding mower, but one ought to have more than a 5hp rider.
"Justin Hughes" (justinhughes54)
02/14/2017 at 15:27, STARS: 0
It’s for washing off your Subie after pretending to be a rally driver.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
02/14/2017 at 15:27, STARS: 1
That’s sounds like a real table-flip on Robins, to be sure.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
02/14/2017 at 15:29, STARS: 0
I think the shift may be part of realizing that Robin’s name is generally mud - or at least it’s not a name that *helps* sell the motor as much as just vanilla recognition as “Subaru”.
"That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms" (thatbastardkurtis5)
02/14/2017 at 15:34, STARS: 0
Subaru small engines are actually generally excellent. Sometimes badged as Robins, really high quality motors.
"AndyG_UK" (ajg1974)
02/14/2017 at 15:36, STARS: 0
I was going post the same thing!
"benjrblant" (benjblant)
02/14/2017 at 15:39, STARS: 1
At least they got the bro-wheels correct.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
02/14/2017 at 15:44, STARS: 1
The old Fuji Robins with cone-shaped foam pre-filtered air filters and goofy tall shielded exhausts, sometimes with some kind of weird flocking (?!) were not my favorite engines ever. The carbs could *not* tolerate sitting, the kill switches, the filter, the tank, pretty much everything outside of the engine I was not a fan of. Insides, no special complaints except the one that tried to take my head off when it threw a rod.
I’ve heard more positive things about newer ones that were not those.
Mainly, the old ones resembled somebody trying to build to the feature set of a Honda industrial on the cheap... or something. Just weird.
"BrianGriffin thinks “reliable” is just a state of mind" (briangriffinsprius)
02/14/2017 at 16:06, STARS: 0
You can pick this up at your local Home Depot, also with a Subaru engine (and CVT, lol)
"In a Mini; let them mock me as My Mini Countryman is higher than you" (hoontheangelsing)
02/14/2017 at 16:09, STARS: 0
The head gasket explodes
"The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock" (jukesjukesjukes)
02/14/2017 at 16:46, STARS: 0
My dad’s hunt camp has Robin generator. That thing refuses to die, it also only generator we found that will start in -45(c).
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
02/14/2017 at 16:49, STARS: 0
I’ve heard good things about very old Robins. I’ve heard good things about more recent Robins. The ones I came to be familiar with, not a fan.
"The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock" (jukesjukesjukes)
02/14/2017 at 17:02, STARS: 0
Ours needed fuel lines & new gaskets 3 years ago. It also just turned 15. Apart from that it has been very reliable.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
02/14/2017 at 17:12, STARS: 0
The ones I worked on were back around 2006, and were already probably 10-15 years old or more at that time. They’d mostly seen rental service, and were either low hours from being on uncommon-use equipment or medium-high hours from running on normal equipment just long enough to start getting dodgy. They had been perfectly serviceable at one time, but they had neither the innate simplicity/stupidity/hit it with a hammer qualities of Briggs engines of comparable age, nor the mystical resistance to trouble of their Honda GX counterparts. Weirdly designed parts, carb erraticness, and just a general parts aesthetic that I couldn’t get down with.
"wafflesnfalafel" (wafflesnfalafel1)
02/14/2017 at 20:58, STARS: 0
3100 PSI is A LOT of boost