LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR
SECTION 16 REPORTING OBLIGATIONS



	Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and
appoints each of Daryl P. McDonald and David W. Kay, signing singly, the
undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

(1)	execute for and
on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an officer
and/or director of Tecumseh Products Company, a Michigan corporation (the
"Company"), Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;

(2)	do and
perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be
necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5,
complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file
such forms with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and
any applicable stock exchange or similar authority, including obtaining
identification numbers for electronic filing; and

(3)	take any other
action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in
the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best
interest of, or legally required on the part of, the undersigned, it being
understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf
of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form
and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may
approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.

	The undersigned hereby
grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and
perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or
proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein
granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or
could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or
revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact,
or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or
cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and
powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing
attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the
undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the
undersigned's responsibilities to comply with section 16 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934.

	This Power of Attorney shall remain in full
force and effect until revoked by the undersigned is no longer required to
file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and
transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by
the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing
attorneys-in-fact.

	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused
this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 16th day of December,
2002.




										/s/ Stephen L. Hickman

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						Signature



										Stephen L. Hickman

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						Print Name



STATE OF
MICHIGAN

COUNTY OF LENAWEE



	On this 16th day
of December, 2002, before me, a Notary Public in and for said County,
personally appeared Stephen L. Hickman, to me personally known, who, being
by me first duly sworn, did say that he or she is the person named in and
who executed the within instrument and said Stephen L. Hickman acknowledged
said instrument to be his or her free act and deed.


										 /s/
Ozenna Haskell
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						Notary Public


										August 27, 2006

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