Your guide to Murray Lawn Mowers with their history, parts and repair tips.

The Definitive Guide to Murray Lawn Mowers

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History of Murray

The Murray Ohio Manufacturing Company began ctreating Murray mowers in Cleveland, Ohio. Its founder was J. W. Murray. Originally, the Murray Company manufactured machines intended for both residential and commercial arm usage. Riding tractors or riding mowers became the company's mainstay along with garden tractors. The machines gained popularity due to the inexpensive price tag.

Unfortunately, Murray Mowing ran into extensive financial problems in the early 21st century. As a result, Briggs and Stratton purchased Murrays in 2004, acquiring the Murray brand name. Now, Briggs and Stratton produce Murray lawn mowers. All contain the well-known Briggs and Stratton engine.

The Range

Murray Mowers come in a wide range of mowers designed to address the various levels of lawn maintenance and operator capability. There is the Murray standard for beginners in lawn care, the Murray Select for the next stage up and Murray Performance at the top of the proverbial lawnmower heap.

Within the rage, you will discover the various types available from walk-behind mowers for residential use, Murray riding lawn mower's for large lawns, to murray lawn tractor's for landscape professionals. In addition, the mowers have bags and mulch for your convenience. Small yard mowers can be riding or walk-behinds. The cuts can range from a small 15-inch to a 30 -inch to a large 42-inch. The Performance Riding Mower offers as high as a 46- inch cut. Motor horsepower also varies, ranging from 5.5 in standard machines to 22 in Murray Performance riding machines. Twenty-two inches seems to bête norm for the cutting edge of the walk-behind machines.

Plastic wheels or steel ones make the mower roll. Walk-behinds, usually, have plastic, riding models have steel. How well plastic wheels function, depends upon your personal experience. Plastic wheels, however, are not known for durability in Murray's case. Murray parts, however, are easy to access and replacements wheels are not too expensive.

What is tough and powerful is the engine in a Murray machine. Owned by Briggs and Stratton, it is only natural that Murray mowers sport the quality Briggs and Stratton engine. While the body may fall apart due to wear and tear and the plastic wheels decide to deteriorate, the motor will continue to operate.

Repair Tips for Murray Mowers

First off have a look through the mower repair tips for issues common to all mowers. Murray mower do however have a number of common problems. Heres how to fix each of them:

• Broken plastic wheels: This is the most commonly reported issue with Murray mowers, either the plastic cogs on the wheels or the whole wheels deteriorate. It seems most people every few years need to replace a wheel. Amazon has them for about $15-$20 (here if your interested). If you have a look at the first of the pictures you can see a new wheel front and back with a the plastic cogs on the inside all intact. To replace them is pretty easy. Your mover will probably look something like the third picture. On the center plastic disk you can see a little segment (nut cover) that pops off. Get a flat head screwdriver and pop it off. Underneath you should see a nut. Undo the nut. If it's stuck use some WD40 and leave it overnight and/or tap it with a hammer. Pull off the old wheel, put the new one on and replace the nut (use a new nut if you had trouble getting the old one off). Then put on the new nut cover and you are good to go.
  
• Leaking Fuel Tanks:
• Broken Belts:

While these do seem like big problems, all brands have some issue and these are small in the scheme of thing and Murray's customer service is report to be much better than most.

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