Recent content by Hammermechanicman

I slipped the piston out, honed the cylinder until 95% of the marks were not noticeable by finger touch. installed the NEW rings on the piston ensuring the ring gaps were 1/3 piston away from each other. So.....I didn't check the Valve clearance or lash etc as I didn't remove the head from the...

It might come to that.

It is 1" galvanized steel put in in 1975.

Found the culprit. This didn't happen overnight. And yes, wet clay is about as dense as lead. I'm getting too old for this stuff.

I see this when commercial guys go curb hopping.

I would run a compression test on all cylinders and see if the non firing cylinder is different than the others.

Been leaking for a while. The ground is saturated clay. Like standing and working in wet peanutbutter. I was nervous about possible cave in it being deep enough at about 5 feet and the sides being so soft that i had someone helping. Just in case.

Thanks.

It is a tube inside of a tube. He said well water scales them up and costs as much to replace the heat exchanger coil as a whole new unit. Getting behind on work too. Got 3 riders and 2 push mowers in the shop. Need to get those done because i have more waiting to pickup for annual maintenance

Got up Thursday morning to a half inch of muddy water in the finished basement. The hole in the pipe from the well leaked enough water to come up under the window well and push about 50 gallons of muddy water through the window. Only down 4 1/2 feet. Luckily neighbor has a backhoe. Got if fixed...

I used to use milk jugs years ago but now they must be degadeable now so they will eventually break down in the land fills. Leave one in the sun for a couple weeks and it starts to crumble. They ruined milk jugs just like coat hangers for welding.

I have repaired plastic tanks using the HF tool https://www.harborfreight.com/80-watt-iron-plastic-welding-kit-60662.html And some pieces of old plastic gas can. If the hole is buggared i would weld up the hole and install a new bushing and fitting in a new hole. Drill it , don't try and melt...

My okie roommate in the service said it was something you scrape off the bottom of you boot. ?

What is in the middle of Texas? It's not an "X"

Ya just ain't woke enough. Years ago me and another guy were working on a machine at one of the bigger accounts in town and the other guy asked the shift supervisor when she was due to deliver. Her reply was "I'm not pregnant just fat" and stared at him. Awkward................ i went for a...

That's for sure. I always have a hard time figuring out if the circuit is using right handed or left handed electrons

When i repainted my '79 18.5 ft aluminum boat 20 years ago i took off the outboard engine, stripped out the interior and suspended it from a truss in the barn by the bow eye and flipped it over and set it on 4 5 gal buckets and stripped and repainted it.

Electrons confuse me.

Assumed he knew to do that.

If you are set on using a 12v test light connect it to batt+ and the kill wire at the coil. If circuit is grounded light will be on. When you unground the circuit the light will go off.

Trying to justify this one. https://1sourcetool.com/products/bolt-buster-bb2x-acc-high-power-1800w-heat-induction-tool-kit

Not sure how good your chops are on electrical troubleshooting but i use this tool for probably 99% of troubleshooting on mowers. Tells you if you have positive voltage or ground. Does AC and DC and resistance...

To check and see if the govenor gear is working you can disconnect the linkage between the govenor lever and the carb butterfly. Disconnect control linkage from govenor lever. Hook up a light spring to hold the carb butterfly closed. Start engine and hold govenor arm in WOT position and slowly...

Is the fuel coming from where the injectors go into the block or from the where the fuel rail meets the upper part of the injector? Did he use all new crush washers?

Good questuon. There are some aftermarket ones for some of the old pro saws but they are kinda expensive. There was a thread quite a while back on another forum where a guy modified his stock cover and added the new style nuts. Sounded like a bit if work. I just carry 4 extra nuts in my saw box.

Not that exact spindle but i had to get a similar assembly apart and no big pin wrench. I took an old socket that fit over the shaft and tack welded it to the piece with the holes and used a 1/2" impact to remove it. Just ground the weld off when done.

Rings stuck and got transfer on the cylinder. Luckily i actually have a spare jug kit for this saw.

This is today's adventure Looks like it got a little hot

Busted!

Something weird here. Maybe we can get out the Dick Tracy decoder ring and figure it out. Last post you say there was no damage to piston or cylinder when you cleaned and reassembled them. You also say in one of the early posts that as soon as you tried to turn the engine after working on the...

That damage was not from the carb cleaner. He said the engine had a tight spot as soon as he rotated the engine after working on the valves. That was the the damage to the piston and cylinder dragging. Aluminum cylinder, no buffing that out. Probably suffered the terminal scoring before he even...

Carb adjusting tool? No sir, of course i don't have any. That would be illegal. I would never try and adjust a carburetor. Yes sir, that's my story and i am sticking to it.

Yeah, looks like you're right. Not seen a chonda carb with that screw on the side

I don't think that is an adjustment screw. It just covers the pilot jet.

If you can't fix it with duck tape or ketchup it must be an electrical problem.

You need to make it so it can't deform. Think of it as making a ballon into a zeppelin. The tank just holds oil the sticks and tape make it rigid.

If you get some 1x2 sticks the length of the cylinder inside the end flanges and space about 8 of the around it and then wrap the thing top to bottom tightly with duck tape it won't collapse.

Lools like a knock off of a Pela PL-650. I have not seen one of that design that hooked up to a compressor. There is a LOT of external pressure on the container when hooked to a compressor. I started with the little round Pela 6000. Works but roo slow and time consuming for a shop. Since the...

Mine has definitely paid for itself.

What extractor do you have? My HF one has a heavy steel tank.

there are lots of AM kits for the saw. I prefer Cross with Caber rings if i can find it but in reality even the cheap kits will work as long as they beveled the ports so it won't hang a ring. Concrete saws just don't live that long if used to dry cut. If water is used they will live a lot...

Don't just change the cylinder. You will need a piston and cylinder kit. Depending on how much grit it sucked in the crank journal bearing might be bad too. Pull the cylinder and check the rod for vertical play, not lateral play. Any perceptible play means you need a crank kit too. Cement dust...

You looking for rotary or drop? Push or tow? How big is property?

If it has been used to cut concrete they can get "dusted". Fine grit past the air filter. Piston can look fine but piston and cylinder are toast. Very common problem with concrete cutoff saws. Like scrub said, pull the muffler and look at piston for scoring. When you pull the cord how does the...

I will send you the plans for the bank job. You're not afraid of explosives i hope.

Well, just to prove there are good people in the world i gave a guy a discount on the labor on his chainsaw because it took so long to get a part in. He was so thankful that i was able to repair his MS250 without changing out the entire handle/tank assembly to fix the small broken piece that...

I may have to give up the fix it gig and go back to the old fashioned way of making money. Robbing banks. ? less tax implications too.

Manifold gasket 691917 https://www.jackssmallengines.com/jacks-parts-lookup/part/mtd/72104232 Order says "ready to ship" since the 9th. Got the shaft in a little over a week. Needed a MS250 air filter. Stihl dealer didn't have one in stock so if i want one filter price plus $20 special order...

My issue isn't so much price but availability. Been waiting for a set of axle seals for a tiller for 2 weeks and no email they have shipped. Waited a month for intakes seals for a briggs. Stens finally showed 8 in stock. Hate me because i bought all 8.

Bingo! Just the other day had an odd air filter i got from Foley Belsaw i bought for pennies many years ago go on a machine and if i get another for stock it will cost me $12. Even though i paid less than a dollar for it i charged the cust current retail price.

Yes. Just google 23x10.5x12 tube and you will find a lot of them. And a tube that is close in size will also work.

Yeah, you need to check the crankcase bolts for being loose and if they are tight do a pressure and vacum test. Also check the impulse hole to the carb is clear.

Too many politicians telling soldiers how to do their job. You will never win a war over polotics, ideology or religion. Getting down off the soapbox now.

How many vets we got on here? Duty station? I was Army Security Agency field sration Berlin 76-78 MOS 05H20

My "other father" was a korean war vet. Told some rough stories about the chineese and the winter weather.

At least vets now are getting respect from most of the public. We didn't back in the late '70s. Most the country still had a bad taste from the 'nam fiasco. My hats off to all the grunt door kickers who played in the sandbox. Only action i saw were some bar fights. Being Military Intelligence...

My father worked jthrough the depression and taught me a few things. Take care of you family, take care of your church and take care of your tools and treat people the way you would want to be treated. Too me a few years to figure out hiw smart he was.

https://www.searspartsdirect.com/product/1amapbtytc-0071-504/id-0g3231 This might help.

Absolutely

And with B&S filing bankruptcy how will that affect dealers??

The light brown

No the piston should not be oily. Coffee colored residue is good but black isn't bad. Just depends how much black buildup. If using Stihl Ultra mix at 50:1 any heavier and if carbons up exhaust screens. You are probably good.

Yeah, what Bert said. Looked into becoming certified or whatever the engine companies called it. Shops like me are too small for them to want to work with. Oh yeah, that is also why every Briggs dealer near me is closed or dropped Briggs. My pockets aren't deep enough to be a dealer.

Hope it works out. You will really need to get set up with a tax ID and start charging sales tax. Just takes one complaint to the IRS to screw you. 20 years ago you could stock a couple dozen blades and air filters. Not now, you need about a hundred different of each.

Years ago i tried stocking blades and filters and a few other things for retail. Didn't work out well for me. Being a small repair shop and not a store front just couldn't compete. If somebody wants something i have on hand i will sell it to them. Biggest thing people want is a spark plug or a...

The reason i suggested putting in the original coil was because you said you got the non OEM coils form another person. Are you sure they are the correct coils? Did the engine run decent on one cylinder before you put the new coils on? From your first post it sounded like the problem started...

In We sometimes think a 10,000 rpm 2 stroke engine will have a hard time sparking that fast but in reality it is a non issue. Cranking speed or 14000+ rpm the magneto puts out the same energy. Consider my 1966 396cid chevy with a standard 3 ohm coil and points. Turning at 6000 rpm the...

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Oh hell, i have worked on lots of demon possesed evil 2 strokes that hated me. Those things are a given. I have a voodoo priestess on retainer to cast out the demons. Only way to fix some of them. Sometimes you have to use FM on them.

Liquid gasoline does not burn, gasoline vapor burns. If you put liquid fuel in the plug hole you run the risk of wetting the plug to the point that is arcs through the liquid fuel and no combustion.

If you still have it put the working original coil back on and disconnect plug wire from the other cylinder with new coil and see if it backfires in the carb and is still hard to start.

Also, be careful swapping coils and flywheels on Stihl products. Some chainsaws have 3 different coils that look identical but have different retard and curves. Same for other stihl equipment. Folks get a tuneup kit off ebay that has a new coil so they change it. Those kits ususally have first...

I personally don't like the put a few drops of gas in the spark plug hole on 2 strokes. Just too easy to get a wet plug and then no fire. I prefer to use actual starting fluid (ether) in the carb. Troubleshooting a no fire problem with 2 strokes can be difficult. Some folks say you will burn up...

Check your lift pump. if you have an electric lift pump disregard. If you have a mechanical lift pump a small hole in the diaphragm can leak fuel into the engine but still work.

True old school gentleman. My respects sir. Ike was the man when i debuted on the planet. All caps is harder for me to read. Of course, i prefer decent grammar and punctuation to help convey meaning. On another forum a guy types long replies in all caps with no punctuation and has spelling...

What do the spark plugs look like?

The old LawnBoy electronic coils were bad for crapping out if you didn't ground the plug wire if you took it off the plug and cranked the engine. Force (chrysler) outboard engines were bad for it too. Lots of Force outboards got retired because the ignition modules went out and they were NLA. I...

Get tecumseh part no. 35350 breather tube and install in valve cover.

Back in high school my '63 Ford Galaxie kept randomly blowing the dash light fuse. Ran out of fuses so stuck a piece of 1/4 20 bolt in it. Found out why it was blowing fuses when the the clock contacts stuck closed. Fried the insulation off the wire to the clock at 60MPH and filled the car with...

I have about a dozen of the cheap Harbor Freight or Hazard Fraught, take your pick, float charger battery tenders. I have used thems for years for winter storage of all my vehicles and equipment with batteries. Haven't had a battery freeze or die over winter.

With no load you may be still running on the low speed circuit or just transitioning to the high speed circuit. If it runs without hiccups with a good load on it you have a problem with the carb low speed circuit. Watch the govenor linkage when it hiccups. Does it open up the throttle right when...

There have been many conversations about motor oil. Can't find the latest one but it had many opinions on the subject.

Got that one right. I am amazed at some of the dumb s##t people do with a chainsaw. I don't burn wood but i have taken a fallers course and i do a lot of dropping and bucking dead ash trees around here. Folks call me and want me to drop trees near houses or power lines. I tell them NO, sorry...

Unless someone is a pro feller weekend wood warriors should use the convention face cut and horizontal backcut. Pro loggers use the Humboldt face cut to maximize the use of timber but always use a horizontal backcut. A sloping backcut is probably the most dangerous thing you can do wrong...

Except you while cutting it.

NEVER use a sloping backcut. No idea why it was cut like that but all i can say is wrong. Someone needs some felling classes.

Do you get a message like can't determine battery capacity or something like that? I recently fixed one doing that. Turned out the some HP AC adapters have 3 wires. The tiny center pin was bent not making connection. The 2 power wires were making connection. Straightened out the center pin and...