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Worse, Northern Tool won't ship Briggs Vanguard engines in this displacement range to California. At all. I found a Kohler 674cc available on Amazon (at nearly twice the HF Predator 670cc price) that would still ship here (or at least didn't say they wouldn't), but that's 2/3rds of the way to the price of the cheapest Casler 1/2VW engine.
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The Predator 670cc horizontal shaft engine seems to no longer be available for sale from Harbor Freight. At first I thought it was just California, since the engine is also available on Amazon but cannot be shipped to CA. However, a search of HF stores in Nevada and Arizona turned up the same result - "Back in stock soon", which is the same thing the CA stores have been saying for months now. The engine was in-stock last summer - my local HF had them on the floor - but now seem to be unobtainium.
Worse, Northern Tool won't ship Briggs Vanguard engines in this displacement range to California. At all. I found a Kohler 674cc available on Amazon (at nearly twice the HF Predator 670cc price) that would still ship here (or at least didn't say they wouldn't), but that's 2/3rds of the way to the price of the cheapest Casler 1/2VW engine.
