Troy-Bilt/Bolens

Troy-Bilt/Bolens repair manuals in PDF. The double name is the factory’s own: Garden Way, the company behind Troy-Bilt, took over Bolens in the late 1980s and sold the Suburban lawn tractors with both badges printed together on the cover, manuals included. The Suburban series repair manual covers the ST-series machines built from 1984 to 1993. That range starts before the takeover, so the book applies whichever badge your hood wears. Its model and serial number table is sorted by year, so you can confirm exactly which variant you own before buying; the full model list is on the product page.

We file these manuals under the combined name because that is what the cover prints, © Garden Way, and matching the cover beats guessing. Inside are complete wiring diagrams and mower deck work down to spindle torque specs, the jobs that actually put these machines up on ramps. If yours is an older Port Washington machine, a tube frame, medium frame, or large frame tractor, its manual lives in the Bolens category.

Is Troy-Bilt/Bolens the same as Bolens?

Same machines, later era. Bolens had built garden tractors in Port Washington, Wisconsin for decades before the badge sharing began; the co-branding carried the Suburban line to the end of its run, and MTD bought what remained of Garden Way in 2001. So a Suburban manual printing TROY-BILT/Bolens on its cover is original factory naming. The table inside pairs each sales name, ST 110 or ST 160 for example, with its model code and serial range, so whichever badge the plate shows, you can match the machine to the book.

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