yes MTD makes Troy Bilt which I did not know...and my Briggs started on first or second pull when I tried a few times.
I like Troy Bilt having bought one of their rototillers in the 1980s.
MTD makes yard machines lawn mowers...found in Home Depot they use Chinese engines. You tube advice says to run these Chinese Honda engine clones for ten minutes then empty out oil and lots of metal filings. Repeat this. Then the Chinese engine is good to go and good as Honda
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Troy is no longer built by the people that built them in the ‘80s.
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