Toro parts

A 22 in. rear-wheel-drive walk-behind mower with Toro’s Personal Pace drive and electric start, powered by a Briggs & Stratton EXi of 163 cc. Toro publishes fourteen separate parts listings for this one model number, and the parts are not the same across them — the engine maintenance kit changes between the 315- and 316-series ranges, and the front wheel changes again between the 316- and 400-series ranges. Your serial number decides both.

!14 production runs — parts differ

A 22 in. front-wheel-drive walk-behind mower with Toro’s SMARTSTOW fold-and-store handle and a variable speed self-propel system, powered by a Briggs & Stratton EXi of 163 cc. It shares its engine size and cutting width with the 20334 but drives the other end of the machine — which is why the two take different drive belts, a difference no amount of matching the specification will reveal.

!9 production runs — parts differ

A 22 in. walk-behind mower with Toro’s SMARTSTOW fold-and-store handle and Personal Pace rear-wheel drive, powered by a Briggs & Stratton 675EXi. Toro publishes five separate parts listings for this model number, and the parts are not identical across them — the engine maintenance kit differs between the two we have opened. Check your serial number before ordering anything for the engine.

!5 production runs — parts differ

A 30 in. twin-blade walk-behind mower with Personal Pace rear-wheel drive, powered by a Briggs & Stratton 223 cc OHV. Toro publishes eleven separate parts listings for this model number. Across the four we opened, the engine maintenance kit changes once, then stops being listed altogether — and the blade number moves away and back again rather than in one direction. On this machine the serial number is not a proxy for "newer".

!11 production runs — parts differ

The rental version of the 30 in. TimeMaster — Toro’s own parts page titles it "TimeMaster 30in Lawn Mower (Home Depot Rental)", which is what distinguishes it from the 21199. All five of its published parts listings have been opened, and the blade changes once: Toro lists the 15.4 Inch Atomic Blade kit 20120P up to 406999999 and the 15.4 Inch Hi-Lift Replacement Blade Kit 20122P from 407000000. Neither number’s product page says it replaces the other, so Toro states no relationship between them at all — which is not the same as Toro saying they are different blades, and we do not say that either. What is certain is that past 407000000 Toro lists a different number, and on a machine that gets rented, which blade Toro lists is worth checking against your serial rather than against the model number you were handed.

!5 production runs — parts differ

The electric-start 30 in. TimeMaster, on the same Briggs & Stratton 223 cc OHV as the 21199. Toro publishes eleven parts listings for it. The maintenance kit stops being listed after the earliest range we opened, exactly as on the 21199 — but the blade does not follow the 21199’s pattern, which is the reason this machine has its own page rather than a line on that one.

!11 production runs — parts differ

A 22 in. rear-wheel-drive Recycler on a Briggs & Stratton EXi of 163 cc. The engine maintenance kit and the blade are the same in both ranges we opened — the part that changes is the discharge chute, which is exactly the sort of part nobody thinks to check a serial number for.

!9 production runs — parts differ

A 22 in. Recycler. All eight of the parts listings Toro publishes for it have been opened, and across them the blade and the engine maintenance kit never change. One part does: the discharge chute is 139-6556 up to 418280832 and 147-8696 from 418280833 on, a supersession Toro states on the older number’s product page and never on the parts listings. Ten further items — a snow blower, a chainsaw, batteries, a cover — appear together in three middle listings and nowhere else; ten unrelated things do not join a mower’s fitment at once, so we record what Toro lists and do not call that a change to the machine.

!8 production runs — parts differ

The all-wheel-drive 22 in. Recycler — a third drive layout alongside the rear-wheel-drive 20334 and the front-wheel-drive 20339, on the same Briggs & Stratton EXi of 163 cc. Toro lists the same blade for all three, 59534P, and lists a traction assist part for this one, 144-6377, that appears on neither of the others. Whether the drive layout is the reason, Toro does not say.

!7 production runs — parts differ

A 22 in. Recycler Max. Every one of the five parts listings Toro publishes for it has been opened, and across them the blade and the engine maintenance kit never change. The discharge chute does: 139-6556 up to 418396424, then 147-8696 from 418396425 on. Toro sells the second as the replacement for the first, which is stated on the older number’s own product page and nowhere on the parts listings.

!5 production runs — parts differ

A 21 in. Super Recycler with an aluminium deck and Personal Pace rear-wheel drive, on a Briggs & Stratton of 163 cc. Toro publishes ten parts listings for it. We opened three — the earliest, a middle one and the latest — and every listed part is the same in all three. That is the strongest evidence we have that a machine can span years without its parts moving, and it is still only three of ten: we cannot tell you what the other seven show.

!10 production runs — parts differ