You can get most parts and many other engines will fit in its place. We sold Ariens Rockets new. Much better tillers than Troy Built - but I guess Ariens did not market them as well. Ariens also made big, truck-farm sized tillers. Nice thing about the Rocket is you can disengage the tiller drive without disengaging the wheel drive. You can't do that with a Troy Built. The HH engine has the same footprint as the aluminum engines you often find on snowblowers. But the HH used OEM on the Rocket is cast-iron and also has a hardened exhaust valve and tapered-cone adjustable bearings for mains on the crankshaft. Troy Built used the same engine on several tillers - along with Briggs and Kohler. The big HD Ariens tillers were Model As, Bs, A-Transamatic, and TA Multimatic made from the 1930s to the 1950s. Model A used Wisconsin AAH engine Model B used Wisconsin AHH engine Model C used Wisconsin AFH engine Model D used Wisconsin TF two-cylinder engine TA20 used Wisconsin AEN, 8 horse TA20A used Wisconsin AEH, 9 horse TA28 used Wisconsin TF, 2 cylinder 16.5 horse TA28B used Wisconsin TH, 2 cylinder, 16.5 horse Gardener used Briggs Model 8 engine, 2.5 horse Yardster used Briggs Model 6 engine, 2 horse Junior used Briggs Model 6, 2 horse Jet series used Briggs or Tecumseh 3 - 5 horse Rocket - came out 1960 with 5.5 horse Tecumseh Rocket VI - came out 1964 with 6 horse Tecumseh The smaller homeowner tillers included the Gardener G2, Yardster, Junior, Jet, Super Jet, Deluxe Jet, Rocket, and Rocket VI.
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