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That is either the solenoid squealing or the starter motor squealing & I rather think it is the starter. Remove the blower housing and check that the starter gear has retracted They can jamb Then remove the spark plug, put your palm on the flywheel and check you can turn the engine over by hand...

When I started out 8 years ago, I was just a parts swapper when it come to hand held engines. The I made the effort to lear how to test them properly and since then the number of carbs I have ripped apart or replaced has dropped off drastically. Find the Joe Pace videos on You tube. Note he...

I have used a lot of the Hurtzl / farmer tech/ arbourtech products over the years with quite good results, to date . They are all the same products. What people forget is carbs are changing and most now days contain a check valve that is destroyed by using carb cleaner. This is why Walbro...

If the engine will not hit with starter fluid down the plug hole then either one of the valves is stuck open ( most likely the exhaust ) or the timing key in the flywheel has broken & the flywheel has shifted on the crank shaft .

The ones that come from a real mower shop are generally good because the shops have to warrant them Carbs bought from the web warriors are pot luck

No It is either a more agressive type of tyre or a 4WD tractor style mower , the articulated ones are the closest to a ZTR in operation. Some agricultural ( cheveron - lugged ) tyres will give better traction but you will have to modify the way you use the mower to avoid tearing up soft wet lawns.

Not on your mower, but have fitted them to others without problems. Any brand name nationally retailed filter should be fine. Down here Stens give a 12 month warranty on their filters as do Rotary & Prime Line . Avoid buying them from cyber retailers who do not have a physical presence ( street...

That's how you do a big job One little bit at a time Good luck & enjoy that beer.

Replace the blown fuse.

Spend $ 20 & get a red in line spark tester No flashing = dud coil or kill wire shorting Remove will wire from coil Flashes red = short in wiring or faulty safety switch. If it only does it when the blades are on suspect the reverse switch.

The ACR is not working As it is sort of random, that points to a wide valve lash. Had a customer who stored his mower is a very cold shed All winter ( we mow all year here ) it would not start when he tried in the morning. He would push it out & when I turned up some time between mid morning or...

Try a nice new plug Modern plugs will condense fuel on the insulator nose then the spark runs down the electrode rather than jumping the gap . Sparking iin air means nothing as the resistance of the compressed charge is around 60 times bigger than at atmospheric pressure.

How long is a piece of string ? alternators are standard size , both stator & rotor right across the entire range . Most carbs will interchange as will the starter motors. After that it will depend upon the series ( first 2 numbers of the model number )

Never hear of it happening except for the person who tipped old cooking oil into the pile Some of the bacteria excrete hydrogen gas which is why a good pile smells like ammonia . Most of what people think is smoke is actually steam To prevent this you turn very regularly. People forget that...

Important question Did you buy the cheapest parts you found on Amazon/ebay or known quality pars from a mower shop ? If it floods when the air filter is on but runs fine without it then either the jets are very slightly clogged or the air filter is bad There is a lot of sub-standard parts that...

Well answer the same question Does it stop at 1.5 turns ?

Lots of oaks = lots of nice leaves to make compost with so put in some big compost bins & start making it all summer. If you collect the grass and compost it with a good amount of chicken manure it will kill off the seeds and use this to start to build up the soil levels. Drought tollerance...

One of the safety switches is faulty, most likely the brake. Not sure exactly where it is but they are usually under the mower thus subject to this sort of damage. Do yourself a massive favour & get a JD technical manual Not only is the diagnosis sections written so a 10 year old can follow them...

Stamped decks have better grass flow than fabricated ones but require more maintenance Fabricated decks will take a lot more abuse than pressed decks. Only you will know which is best suited to your needs.

That thread is near 2 years old with no further posts . Ed has probably left the forum So if you want help start a new thread complete with your mower make , model, year engine make model & year

Band aids if that is all you do Insurance if you do the job properly and fix the carb first The biggest mower company down here Victa that once had 80% of the local market & exported to every country on the planet except Canada , USA & Mexico fitted taps to all of their mower tanks

Responses like this are about as useful to any one as Chuck Norris endorsing a fitness machine that does not work. As has been stated thousands of times there are so many factors that go into determining weather fuel goes off or not in a particular situation that a single persons experiences...

The best catcher are Walkers by a very long way Grass Hopper comes a close second. Down side is they have counter rotating blades and narrow decks so it will be a few more passes.

The correct oil level is just below the sump gasket Lots of mowers end up with the wrong dip stick in them There are really only 3 reasons why oil will blow out of the dip stick tube. Noting that when running it should spit a bit. In order of my experience 1) sump too full 2) blown head gasket (...

For about 20 you can get a red neon tube in line spark tester Hook it up so you can see it and go mow When the engine is quitting but is still rotating have a look at the tube. If it is flashing but the engine is not firing then you have a fuel or valve problem If it is not flashing then the...

Yep head gasket

First of all, unless the mower has counter rotating ( timed blades ) none of them can evenly distribute the clippings because they all send the clippings to the right. Dedicated mulching decks have baffels underneath that almost encircle the blade. Just blocking off the outlet never works on any...

Not even America Lots of big box brands have very large shareholdings that are foreign owned so the money goes strait overseas Others are majority a single family ( Lowes & Wallies ) so you are making the excessively rich even more rich & depriving people who desperately need the money a job at...

The mounting holes on most vertical engines are the same so motor will bolt in. That is the least of you problems Next is the shaft diameter & length residentials are 1" & commercials are 1.125" if not the same you will need new pulleys and then the belts might not fit properly. After the space...

Lets start with some photos of the machine with the remains of the bag on it Toro made a lot of mowers with 2 stroke engines, some branded Toro , some made by Suzuki some by B & S. Some really good Toro guys on this site , they might be able to recognise it. Worst case take the bag to a...

Remove the solenoid from the bottom of the carb & check that the pin retracts fully when the key is turned on. If it has only one wire then it grounds through the body & needs to be grounded. While you are there, remove the float bowl checking for water ( would have come out when the solenoid...

Remove the spark plugs & try again If it spins freely and nothing comes out of the plug holes then check the valve lash if it spins freely after it spews fluids out of the plug holes then you have a hydro lock & the carb needs to be removed cleaned & rebuilt .

With that many hours on it the hydros are still under warranty So take it back now before dealers get overwhelmed preping mowers for the 2021 season.

You should know the first 2 numbers are the cubic capacity in inches roughly so the 90000 series are actually 09 Cu in 10 are 10 Cu in 11's are 11 Cu in 12 are 12 cu in 40 are 40 cu in etc etc etc

still think you are being sold a line. if tyres were that bad this forum woulg be seeing threads like yours on a daily basis

Take the blower housing off & see where they go Alternator should have another plug on it so the alternator can be replaced Magneto ( coils ) wire to short out & stop the engine that will go open & closed circuit to ground with ignition on & off . fuel solenoid goes 0 to battery voltage to open...

The blades will only engage if the seat switch is activated However I agree fully with Star probably a bad connection. Crimps often fatigue where the rear barb penetrates the insulation & wire Thus they make & break contact due to mechanical vibrations.However this causes a lot more problems as...

Then clamp the stud in some thing & remove the nut Replace the blower housing using locktite on the studs Some times I cut a slot in the top of the nut for a screwdriver

Floating debris in the fuel tank gets sucked into the fuel line & blocks it off. Once the flow stops the debris floats off again. Process repeats at infinitum Water that has condensed in the fuel system builds up in the fuel system so after a few minutes the carb starts sucking water . bad fuel...

The vent for the fuel tank is not working

Exactly that decks never rust out from the underside They rust through from the top and should be blown clean using an air duster On ventilated decks the water from the deck wash ends up on the top of the deck where it sits and rust out the bolts and the deck itself On the underside it ends up...

check the govenor as per the service manual. What stops the engine over reving is the governor

It only take the wheel stud holes to be 1/128" off center and you rim will run out of round We had to redrill the hub os a 2000 series cub wheel t=because they had allowed it to run with loose wheel nuts and this funny enough wore all the holes in the same direction so the wheel egged for want...

With infrequent use things like chain saws it is generally debris blocking the muffler. Loosen the muffler bolts and see if the saw works properly. If so remove the muffler & look for blockages. Can be a dirty spark screen or bugs taking residence

Yes. Sitting all season floating debris will tned to drop to the bottom of the tank then block off the outlet. Take the cap off & blow back through the tube from the tank. Note the pump has a check valve in it so don't try blowing back through that .

Full charge is when the paste on the plates is at it's maximum potential VOLTAGE Amps is determine by how deep the paste is and how deep into the plates the full potential has happened. Automatic chargers measure the resistance in the battery to determine the state of charge but this is not the...

The Time Cutter should serve you well Toro have the parts manual & service manual on line . Proper servicicng starts with downloading them & reading them The only difficult thing for household owners to do is remove the blades. The solution is to buy a second set and swap them regularly so they...

You have an air leak from some where

This is rubbish, Either the dealer is not fitting the tyres correctly or he is not measuring the wheel / axel properly I am yet to come across an out of round tyre of any brand in any size Pull the tyre off and refit the wheel Get a dial gauge on a magnetic stand as used on lathes & mills, some...

Simplicity are a much better mower than any Snapper will ever be. That is why they went broke, product was too well make thus ended up being too expensive for cheap skate buyers. However they are anything but Simple to maintain so download the owners manual and read it carefully. Few owners...

Please go to the attic , find the box with your old high school books in it and read the chapter on magnetism & electricity. Magnetic flux is not effected by rust dirt oil grease or just about any other material sitting on the surface Remember playing with iron filings a magnet and a sheet of...

You can take a few thou off the spacer between the two cones I do that with the 2000 series Cubs I service as the spindles are NLA

other things that cause this type of wear are using starter fluid to start the engine And running with too much oil that causes a carbon buildup around the port that breaks off & get stuck between the rings .

None of them No mower cuts tall grass cleanly unless it has timed overlapping blades and a very deep deck

Stopped how ? like you turned it off or like it ran out of gas ( pulsated a few times ) Also the engine make & model helps

Please only post in one section of the forum because it gets very confusing. Answer the questions in the John Deere section please

Dont use it They do more damage than good

The first spiral cell battery was bought 1988. I was doing our second wedding and the battery would not charge so we jumped the car from the other one & I went to the nearest auto electrician. The biggest battery he had that fitted into the battery box was an Optima spiral cell which cost over $...

No. Only works like that if you filled in the warranty card & sent it back. I encourage customers to staple the receipt to the inside cover of the owners manual for safe keeping.

If the drain tube was up then the carb was down & the oil will have gotten into the carb. Pull it off & clean the oil out .

Well ,sort of. We get diverted to the local host site which only has locally sold mowers on it. One of the reasons why I came here in the first place Some local franchise distributors have to pay an access fee to allow local customers to access the main web site for a lot of brands . Too many...

Unless you fit a sealed pressure valve regulated battery that prevents hydrogen evolution on the plates all lead acid batteries self discharge over time as the plate compounds attempt to get to their lowest energy state, which is dead flat electrically . And this happens just sitting on the...

I tell all of my customers to always tip mowers over backwards so the oil will sit in the sump and not find it;s way into the carburettor & muffler. This is what has happened to your mower if you tipped it carb side down. If you tipped it the supposedly right way then you might have a blockage i...

Don't have a parts book for that model & can't access one down here The FZ2240 I service uses 2 cupped washers under the bolt however it will clamp the blade fine with one, but the blade slips cutting tussock grass . If yours needs 2 they will both go under the bolt not over & under the blade.

Water has penetrated into the wheels Take them off clean & lubricate them. Being a Mountfield it is most likely a Stiga design & Stiga service information is very hard to come by in English

If it is a really big hole you might need a tractor plug. Same stuff, just bigger And use mower plugs not car ones Most car ones have a heat activated glue and mower tyres never get hot enough for it to work so a week latter it is flat again.

If you paid for it by credit card & keep your statements some dealers will take that as proof of purchase Amex down here will actually force warranty on stuff bought with it if dealers give you grief about proof of purchase.

No difference for me but I am running firefox through Linux on a mac. So it looks like a Microsloth problem. OTOH we are under fllod watch at the moment so only logged in at breakfast 6am , lunch 1pm & now 5pm local Sydney time. I won't get flooded unless we get another 6" but all roads in &...

AS you probably know You Tube requires a viewer to be there for 15 seconds So the basic format is a quick hello introduction as to the content then the title screen graphics. I fast forward past them all to get to the meat because it is the information I want . When I started Taryl Fixes All &...

I & every other repairer fit dozens of tyres every year. Never had a egg shaped tyre from cheap 2 plys to expensive 4 ply. And yes they arrive a funny shape & often I have to put a tube into the tyre , blow it up & leave it in the sun for a day or so for the tyre to go back into shape. But never...

12 = 12 Cu inch approximately

As a mower gets close to the end of the credit time a dealer will generally offer a discount on that mower only So there might be two on the floor and if they say $ 200 off this one, it will only be for that one and not the others so if you get offered a deal, don't dally around because if some...

IT is spam with a link so should be removed before any one his the green button the text Бесплатный подарок translates to free gift Even if it is a joke, it is not a mower post so toss it

A tyre should be almost round At the pressures recommended by the mower company you should not be able to feel any wonking from out of round tyres If you can the tyres are defective Tyres are not warranted for things like flats but they are warranted for manufacturing defects If they were like...

I don't have access to wiring diagrams other than what is available in parts book / service manuals. Should no one chime in the never fail method is to pull the blower housings off and see where the wires go to then tag them Then go to an auto store & buy a couple of plugs with terminals. You...

for that type of money he will not get much of a mower and will be repeating the purchase in the near future In reality he will get a top shelf self propelled for that sort of cash or the very bottom end ride on. Modern powder coating makes them all look pretty With a block of that size a Rear...

Nathan, If you are going to try & make videos then we need to see what you are doing not the back of your head or the back of your hands. That means you have to plan out what you are going to do , work out camera positions before you start to film and mark the tripod positions on the floor with...

I know it is hard to swallow but I for one am not making big money as I am always competing for repairs against the price of junk new mowers from China . Even so most of what is bought for personal use comes from the local shops despite a lot of it being up to 50% dearer because I want to have...

You might need to have a long talk with a hortoculturist . IF you grass is being invaided with weeds all the time then there is something wrong with your soil or the grass you are trying to grow or the way you are maintaining it .

FWIW Ariens is the residential model Gravely is the commercial model. In theory the Ariens should have a design life of 2 hours / week for 26 weeks a year for 5 - 10 years The Gravely has a design life of 5 hour / day for 26 weeks a year for 5 years . Commercial mowers usually are built more...

Problem is a lot more common than many would think. As part of the diagnostic kit I keep a set of bowls with no solenoids. The wires are not supported particulalrly well and I have found quite a few with frayed strands. If any 2 touched for a very short time you have a direct short enough to...

With bulbs like that it is not a grass and not onion weed or nut grass. Very hard to tell with just the bulb and the new shoots, could be any one o 10,000,000 + bulb plants. Best to plant some in a pot and look after it till it flowers Could be a very rare orchid . Being a bulb it will always...

Outboard oil has a lot of anti corrosion agents in it . Some of the newer ones are vegetable based so as not to pollute water ways. So it is marine OK for both Mower oil not as good in boats As for which oil is better than what oil,,, Most of the difference is between the ears

The brake is also the clutch so it has to loosen the tension on the drive belt enough for the mower not to drive with the pedal about 3/4 down . The brake acts on the layshaft which locks the diff so each wheel can only move in opposite directions so the mower comes to an abrupt stop. You adjust...

Get a rake and a used mower with the highest cutting height Some of the commercial units will cut as high as 5" Start by cutting weekly at 5" to get it under control Drop the deck height till you start to find the debris then get stuck into it with the rake. From here on in it will depend...

Counter rotating blades with better than a 1/3 overlap & a deck with a collection fan. Any thing less is going to leave clippings behind.

The rubbish RTZ huskys ( or the rebadged alternatives ) with a single cylinder engine are a lot lighter as are the small JD's EZ 335 ? or whatever it is now days . These are sub 1000 lbs. Swisher wide area walk behinds come up to about 50" and they are light, Toro do some big ones as well...

Thanks, forgot about those brake pads Cost me more than one free belt over the years when in a "not thinking hurry " to get a mower out of the shop .

Did you drain the crank cases ? I can open up a Victa and find 1" of mix sitting in the bottom of the cases , even on a mower that has not been used for a long time .

You should be able to get dual wheels for your Ferris Other than that it will be a lightweight domestic ZTR and they are throw aways with a lot smaller decks .

Either the carb is flooding or the exhaust port is clogged

Now I am confused 917 274822 was made by AYP ( Husqvarna ) so your deck should have 2 spindles and 2 idler pulleys When mounted it should look like a T so the belt goes from the engine to the idlers then go left or right to the spindle pulleys and directly from spindle to spindle at the back...

just remember this s not a chisel , plane sword or knife/ It is a mower blade and gets sharpened to a flat face 1mm ( push mowers ) or 2 mm ( ride ons ) wide . Sharpening for a mower blade is just to remove big burs from hitting rocks and reshaping he front to a strait line. Then balancing it...

Are you sure that it is bird damage ? Looks very odd. Easiest solution is a yappy dog

Always a problem but it is just a mind set If that mower was used in a cemetery then it was probably used with a bagger & the rings will probably be worn excessively for the hours on the mower . OTOH they are wear items so if the chassis is good, everything else is just a matter of service ...

Usually this would be because the belt is routed wrong or the return spring on the tension arm was not replaced or in the wrong position .

Usual reason for that is routing the belt the wrong way through the clutching pulleys A photo would help

Never appologise for correcting me just do it. I am just as capable of making mistakes as the next man

09 = year so 2009 29 = day 05 = month so may 2009 for the engine which makes it an 09 / 10 if it is the original engine.

Unfortunately you are in a zero sum game. You will have to make a warranty claim through an authorised B & S agent SO you will get hit with a minimum 1 hour of labour ( if not more ) if the claim is turned down and most are . Then you will have to pay full price for the cam + more labour to get...

I would imagine Jmissal has his mower sorted by now as he posted in November & it is now March . Now to John4803's video. I am sure John thinks he knows what he his doing but his video is both trash & dangerous if followed as shown. Hopefully he will go back& edit it or even better take it down...

Everything Husqvarna does is done to a price point , even more so now that they have become a dominant player. That is why they are abandoning the walk behind & tractor style markets ZTR's have a lot higher profit margin & are a lot cheaper to fabricate & assemble .

Encore used to be good mowers But like a lot of small operators they were stuck in that zone of not being on the top shelf to justify the high price and being too expensive & too low a production to compete at the other end. Others will know for sure but from memory they originated from another...

The transmissions are made as cheap as possible and designed to be produced cheaply They are sealed units and not supposed to be servicable only replaced. Husqvarna , same story. Mower is designed to be cheap to assemble. Easy access for servicing , or easy serviceing for that matter are...

The steering gear is a simple rack ( fan gear ) & pinion ( steering gear ) system. With these , turning right pulls them together & turning left pushes them apart. When being pushed apart the teeth then lock tip to tip preventing the mower turning right. The usual culprit is a worn bush in the...

Idle jet is partially clogged . Blades on the main jet comes in

no, but the drains do

Encore went belly up around 2010 Some of the old management made some sort of a deal with a Chinese company Jiangsu World Plant-Protecting Machinery to make World Lawn products in the old Encore plant in Beatrice NE . Originally they were assembeling the mower from sub assemblies but now days I...

Aussies do get USA humour, but the reverse rarely seems to happen ( que creepy music )

And to add to the original response , consider upgrading the air filter unless you already have a Donaldson type twin element filter fitted. Baggers dump a lot of dust right where ZTR's suck their air in. Also pay attention to cleaning the fins under the blower housing for the same reason if you...

????? Elpescador00 was asking about a Scag ZTR Snappers were never marketed down here ( well not as Snappers any way ) We had 3 local makers of RER's and apart from the Ariens 9000 series there were very few RER's sod down here.

You are asking a lot of the blades to toss all of the clippings up that long chute. Without the fan a lot of baggers can only fill one bag as the clippings do not have enough energy to go all the way to the 2nd ( or 3rd ) bag by themselves. Then there is the type of grass & the frequency of...

That looks too lean to me . check it with a few more hours on it . If it is a customers mower then put a service note that the engine seems to be running lean as per the Cal EPA regulations & needs to be inspected again in Y months. If it then blows up your bum is covered In my shop, the jets...

5 lbs would be very interesting. Atmospheric pressure is 14 psi ( approx ) so at 5 it had become a vacuum pump, or we have entered the " Twilight Zone " ( cue creepy music )

Check the alternator output. Running with a bad battery car burn out the stator in no time flat

The first thing to go is the deck so they are always in short supply. However if your deck is the fabricated one then any decient fabrication shop can cut & fit a new top plate I have remade more than one deck and resurected more than one pressed deck that had more rust than steel . As for a...

No But cranking a hydro locked engine does cause rings to break and head gaskets to blow out. It takes a lot less fuel to hydrolock an engine than most think For the sake of keeping it simple, a 200 cc engine with a 10:1 compression ratio will have a combustion with an approximate volume of 20...

Firstly check the plugs If the plugs are a good colour don't worry about the exhausts A lot now days run at red heat in order to completely burn any fuel that gets to the muffler via valve overlap for example. If the plugs look like it is burning too lean and the carb is clean then take to the...

You probably have a broken ring and all of the fuel that was in the tank is now in the crankcase . Drain the sump and see what comes out . Briggs push mower engines are easy to repair and parts are cheap. Don't continue to start the engine as you will just be making any internal damage worse .

The fan gear should have a hole in it that aligns with a hole in the chassis when the steering is in the strait forward position. Before you put in your order , check the hole in the middle of the fan gear , the teeth on the fan gear, the teeth on the steering gear and the bush the steering...

The question is how strapped for cash are you ? In this modern greedy age there seems to be an unbelievable selfish drive to get everything at the lowest possible price . This has consequences because for instance , Sears spends quite a bit of money to keep that web page you just used up &...

If you don't already have one you will need an uninsulated terminal crimper, not one of those presses out ones for insulated terminals Buy an extra pack & practice a few times on a piece of scrap wire. I have a really old one so have to do a bit of fiddleing to get a good crimp on both the bare...

A man who dates from the early days before rotary mowers had catchers. If you wanted to collect the grass you cut in a clockwise direction from the outside and ended up with it all in a pile in the centre If you wanted to mulch you start from the middle and cut counter clockwise

Usually when taking drive off the flywheel end they use the holed for the puller to hold an adapter shaft which fits over the top of the crankshaft end. A model number off the engine & the mower will help greatly otherwise you are limiting the pool of potential helpers to those who have a...

Easy peasy. All of those terminals look like std 1/ 4" Packard spades which will pull out of the housings with a thin screwdriver or ground down feeler gauge ( .050" works well ) Then it is just a case of replacing the burned wires one at a time . A regular repair task for this little black duck...

A comment like this can only come from some one with little knowledge or understanding of the cost involved in warehousing & distribution of a massive number of spare parts. B & S parts are disproportionlly cheap , Kohler parts are at around the correct price & Kawasaki parts are a touch on the...

FWIW I have a Go-Pro knock off that we tried to make motorcycle videos with ( didn't work cause old bikes shake too much ) . However it is bees knees for looking under the mower to run down occasional problems that only happen when mowing. Picked up quite a few decks that actually flex when...

Some thoughts on mower stands I now use a 2 ton straddle yard crane to work on mowers. Prior to that I used an engine crane Why buy a single use product when you can make a multi use product do the job . If you look around you can still get engine cranes with U shaped legs rather than the...

Why do you need it ? Do you have the original ? There is no loom that can not be made by a reasonable auto electrician or a better mower tech Lots of techs here make up looms & sub looms because OEM parts can take forever to be delivered or are way too expensive .

The engine blocks will have the same mounting holes for the control wires so you can take the entire Kit & Cabbodle off the old one & bolt it onto the new one if they are not the same This especially applies to the governor spring.

It's a bug bear of mine Got 2 Great Danes in the run with 18Hp Commands One has the filter mounted on a stand alone bracket so it is just 2 extra bolts. The other has 3 brackets holding it to the blower housing so it is 12 nuts & bolts to remove the filter + 4 more on the housing before you can...

And if you go that way, which you should then buy enough convoluted tubing to fit the cleaner to the ROPS , not directly to the blower housing so it does not impeede removal of the housing to clean the fins or general access to the engine.

A bit coarse but I would stand behind Star 100 % Replacing a ball joint with a bolt is a nasty cheap bodge at the best of times and should be a vary last resort emergency repair . IT is the sort of thing that when people find it on a used mower that gives used mowers the bad name that they seem...

Highly unlikely as most engines built now days draw both the idle fuel & the running fuel via the main jet or mainjet tube that the above do-dad plugs off. Could be electric depending upon which piece of gear the engine is bolted into . Never heard of a 2700 series Kohler engine so more info or...

The bike club I ride with gets invited to visit drought prone towns all the time because whenever we turn up for 3 days of riding it rains, usually the hardest it had since the last time we were there. Good thing is Pommie bikes run better in the rain

Those who gas weld regularly will have a stack of tips where continued cleaning has made the hole too large. With the Dillion gun I use the only tip I replace is the 0 tip because the 0 eventually becomes a 0.5 and the 0.5 becomes a 0.75 then a 1 Gas is a not less errosive than liquid fuel so...

Any tranny can be made to fit Some will be easier than others There are a few more numbers after the K46 which are code for the positions of the controls and these are what makes the difference between plug & play or fitting.

Well if you are right then you are right, what more do you want ? different carbs will make different size droplets of fuel to be created at different venturii flows . It is generally matched to things like the length of the inlet tract, the material used in the manifold etc, etc, etc . getting...

Been away for a week ( did ya miss me ? ) & was just clearing out all of the unreads Obviously this one got revived by the spammer

At a rough guess 2 things come to mind 1) the previous owner has installed the belt wrong & the input pulley is turning backwards 2) considering the mower dates from 1999 to 2005 there is a good chance the trans failed & got replaced with a wrong one. Go to the JD web page & search for you parts...

You need to start with the parts diagram for the deck to see what should be there. Next remove the PTO belt and try again. If the engine dies then there is a wiring fault & th mower is seeing a blade engaged with no operator in the seat situation.

just so Mr thick has it right the Moderators do not want a "reported" reply to a spam post ? I am also guilty of this practice, except I have been a away for a week or it would have been me reporting the 40 spam posts as most seem to appear in the small hours ( USA time ) when you lot a snoozing...

Embarrassment works really well with irresponsible pet owners Video them then post it to You-tube / Facebook In particular the local community Face Book page if there is one. I have also resorted to picking it up & leaving it loose in letterboxes with a note " Your dog left this behind " ...

Torch tip cleaners are FILES They are not and never have been approved for cleaning jets because if not used with a great deal of finesse they will enlarge jets. That is what I use them for , ENLARGING jets that run way too lean ( all Cal models ) . Several years ago some clot who sells junk on...

The carburetor has a ful solenoid on it that is powered through the main fuse If for any reason the power supply to it fails the engine will stop. A direct short will do this as will blowing the fuse

Some axels purge better than others two important things is the wheels are off the ground so there is no resistance to rotation Secondly the engine is running as slow as possible to prevent foaming . At ti,es I have resorted to sump pumps to put a vacuum on the box to get enough air out to start...

Depends upon the engine & the type of plug lead The worst are the graphite leads because the graphite dust gets shaken by engine vibrations till you get sections where there is none Solid copper wires tend to only leak at the boots particularly if the engine is old and has a bit of oil fume...

A used Walker

Been away for a week, sorry for the delay in response . Most mower engines start with the choke closed & the throttle wide open. The governor i=should be thought as a BRAKE to slow the engine down The faster the engine is going the stronger the governor tries to slow it down. Now the throttle...

At a guess he fitted a cheap knock off cam. Not a problem with genuine cams and very few of the techs here will fit parts of unknown quality so not a common problem to us . Thanks for the feed back & hope all goes well.

Please let us know how you go This sort of information is what a forum like this really exists for. Work arounds for bad engineering forced upon us by bad legal decisions