Recent content by dana a

If this forum would let me post pictures I'd show my frankenstein engine to you. I click the paper clip and it shows me pictures that I've posted in the past. To attach the carb I used a 90* elbow. I had to rotate the carb 90*. To do that I took a piece of 1/2 inch steel and mounted it to the...

Yesterday I topped off the oil and started it up and it ran fine and didn't puke any oil at all. The vent is a large hose about 1/2 inch and it has just a puff of air cycling out. I had a copper pipe stuck in the hose and routed to the carb. I found it laying out where the oil came out about a...

I was curious about how you determine what ratio to use in various piece of equipment. You mentioned 100, 80 and 66 to one

That would be a little too big and heavy for a lawn mower. I put a 3-71 Detroit in a chevy crewcab and it was very heavy in the front. Later I swapped in a 4-53T with a 5 speed and 3 speed auxilary. Currently I'm running an F150 with a 4BT Cummin and that is perfect.

Thanks for the informative replies gentlemen. I have another engine I'll use till I get this one torn apart and fixed. It makes sense to me that you are probably right that it has a broken ring.

Same here, that's all I use too. When I'm done for the season I start it up and close off the fuel line and when it starts to run out of gas I close the choke and that draws even more gas out of the bowl. I have never had a problem starting any of my stuff in the spring.

I made a log splitter back in the 1990's and it has an old 11HP Briggs with a 16HP V twin carb on it. I bought the engine without a carb and used what I had. It has run for years with no problems till today. The crankcase vent isn't attached to the card and when I finished splitting wood today I...

This American has NO interest in an electric mower OR car!

I built this log splitter about 25 years ago and it has split may tons of wood during that time. I changed the oil about a month ago and a few days ago I started it and it had a knock. I've started it several times and it knocks every time. The engine numbers are 252417 5526 01 and I assume this...

If the parking brake wasn't the problem it could be the safety switch on the mower deck has malfunctioned.

I have never used any fuel additive and have never had any problems starting in the spring. I shut the fuel off and run the engine till it starts to die out then I apply the choke and let it run till it dies and that probably gets all of the gas out of the bowl. I have unplugged a lot of...

Whether you weld it or plate it you are going to have to take some stuff off in order to get to the break. In my opinion I don't think a one inch strip of metal on each side of the break would be enough. You would have to use some small bolts and I don't think they could handle the pounding of...

If the hole is 7/16 of an inch or smaller you can use a plug-n-patch. It's a patch with a stem on it. You have to take the tire off and you pull the plug thru the hole then the patch attaches to the inside of the tire. Being a lawn mower tire the hole could be bigger than 7/16 because you only...

I'd say your needle valve isn't closing. The float could be full of gas or have a hole in it or stuck and it could be that something is between the seat and the needle valve. Was there a lot of crap in the bowl when you took it off and cleaned it?

I had an engine with a bad coil and found one that fit but was originally matched to a smaller flywheel. I put it on and it ran. I never did put it to use so I don't know how long it would last.