Hello all,
I was sitting stationary on my LA125 the other day with the engine idling while I was talking to my wife. Suddenly the engine made a fumpf noise and huffed some blue smoke out the exhaust. It kept on running, but roughly. Since then it runs rough with lots of blue/white smoke coming out the exhaust. It also burns a lot of oil now, where it never used to burn any oil. I priced a replacement motor for $455 plus labor at our local John Deere guy. I bought a Z655 instead! A much nicer machine by far. That little LA125 was just too small for my 2.5 acres of thick green grass and this was a good excuse to upgrade.
Anyway, if anyone in the central Iowa near Waterloo wants a good parts machine for their LA125, let me know and it's yours for $50. Aside from this engine problem everything else on the machine is fine. It even has a new battery. I don't have a trailer, so if you want it you'll have to come pick it up.
Kevin H.
I was sitting stationary on my LA125 the other day with the engine idling while I was talking to my wife. Suddenly the engine made a fumpf noise and huffed some blue smoke out the exhaust. It kept on running, but roughly. Since then it runs rough with lots of blue/white smoke coming out the exhaust. It also burns a lot of oil now, where it never used to burn any oil. I priced a replacement motor for $455 plus labor at our local John Deere guy. I bought a Z655 instead! A much nicer machine by far. That little LA125 was just too small for my 2.5 acres of thick green grass and this was a good excuse to upgrade.
Anyway, if anyone in the central Iowa near Waterloo wants a good parts machine for their LA125, let me know and it's yours for $50. Aside from this engine problem everything else on the machine is fine. It even has a new battery. I don't have a trailer, so if you want it you'll have to come pick it up.
Kevin H.