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    SHRPENING BLADES Is there really a better way?

    I don't know what the steel composition of the average mower blade is but good luck hand filing the .250 thick marbain steel blades on a Ferris or JD or other commercial mowers that use them.
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    SHRPENING BLADES Is there really a better way?

    Everybody has their way and it is the best way. At least to them. I use a 4.5" angle grinder with a 36 grit flap wheel and an All American sharpener. https://www.allamericansharpener.com/
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    Synthetic oil or not?

    I do absolutely nothing to my 36hp Ferris at the end of the season other than filling both tanks up with regular pump gas. No fuel shutoff. Sits for about 5 months and always starts right up for the first mow of the season.
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    Tuff Torq K57 Transmission

    I guess i am the evil shop. I pressure wash pretty much every mower than comes through the shop. I have the engine at full throttle and i stay away from the electrics. I usually let it run for 15 to 20 mins after i wash it. Been doing it for many years. I have done some mowers every year for 10...
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    Grease Nipple

    I feel for you. As a kid i had 20/400 vision with bad astigmatism. I have heard every coke bottle glasses joke there is. In the mid 80's got radial keratomy surgery (pre lasik) and got to the point i could see well enough to 20/40 with glasses. Then cataracts about 10 years ago. Eagle eye was...
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    Does AYP make the Husqvarna ride on mowers?

    Had one as a kid. Things were dangerous as heck.
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    Does AYP make the Husqvarna ride on mowers?

    Flymo. Now there is a name i haven't seen in a while.
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    6 hp Briggs Flywheel removal

    If you are careful a pipe wrench can be used to remove it. Dont buggar up the ears. A hammer is not your friend here.
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    Need help with an old Bunton mower plz!!!!

    Yours is new compared to mine. Mine is a 36" with a 10hp Tecumseh VH100. Most Buntons cane in 2 types. The older variable speed pulley type and the newer gear transmission. Except for a few parts for different deck size most bunton parts are the same for each type. Find a parts list for your...
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    Master fuse blows

    Clean and check both ends of the battery cables. Connect your voltmeter from "s" start terminal of ignition switch and solenoid trigger wire with wire connected to solenoid. Turn key to start position and crank engine. Anything more than a half volt is a problem.
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    Parts just getting better. NOT

    My A&I regional salesman showed up this week after 5 yrs and was wondering why my purchases had dropped so much. Translation " why am i not making money off you."
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    Parts just getting better. NOT

    So far stens is still reasonable on shipping but lots of common stuff backordered.
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    Parts just getting better. NOT

    Don't know if you guys with shops or work at shops are busy but i sure am but i don't have star's 35k of inventory.
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    B&S Oil Viscosity Chart

    Absolutely Oh and my oil is better than your oil. ???
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    Parts just getting better. NOT

    Was at my JD dealer i get parts from today. Parts guy told me instead of 2 days for parts they are lucky to get them in 2 weeks and sometimes 3. Their commercial customers and having fits he said.
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    Briggs 5hp - Can't get the valve out?

    Before ethanol the tanks didn't seem to rust like they do now. Since the ethanol attracts water it just trashes the steel tanks.
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    Briggs 5hp - Can't get the valve out?

    I still have 2 engines from the racing days. Used but good tanks. Like star saving for my own use. Got a new tank from a 3 hp but is the old style. I think i stil have about 4 or 5 1/4" valve guides.
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    Briggs 5hp - Can't get the valve out?

    The amount of work it takes to prep a rusty tank for the liner still is more than folks will pay. A new chonda clone is cheaper
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    Briggs 5hp - Can't get the valve out?

    I have the tools but haven't used them for years. Seems like every 5hp briggs i see has a pile of rust for a gas tank. I quit trying to save them. Too many hours customers don't want to pay for.
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    Briggs 5hp - Can't get the valve out?

    The guides are still available. You need some special Briggs tools. 2 reamers a driver and a centering cone. A shop should have these tools. Takes about 10 minutes to install the guides. The valves need to be lapped in after that.
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    GT52LSI Blinking blade switch light

    Welcome to the wonderful world of sh.... er.. stuff we don't need on a lawn mower. Electronics out of china are relatively cheap and the marketing dick heads love to put as many useless bells and whistles on and the new age engineers are into the "cool factor". When it works it is cool but when...
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    Removing a seized PTO

    Bummer. How much is a new clutch?
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    Repairs TB30R

    Probably just some 13 year old looking to be a troll. But maybe he knows which is the best oil to use.
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    Do suspension springs help a lot?

    I have a ferris 3100z it has 4 wheel independent suspension. Difference is night and day compared to a Z with no suspension. My yard has been decimated by moles and i still mow at top speed. Something like 13mph The smaller ferris's don't have as good a suspension package.
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    Hey SloMo

    You better put one on.
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    No Idle Adjustment Screw On New Carburetor For KT735-3011

    Interesting how things have changed in 50 years. I have a snowblower frankensteined onto a 1975 sears ST12 made by Roper. By today's standards it is a tank. Frame sides are 1/4" thick plate. 6 speed Peerless transmission is used by mini tractor pullers. It still has the original Goodyear tires...
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    Hey SloMo

    But does it have a shutoff valve?
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    resistor plugs or not

    You can take a stock 5hp briggs 130232 engine and remove the govenor and replace the oil dipper with a better one and the engine will happily turn 6500RPM and not break. Most racers geared their carts to top out at 6000 to 6200 RPM. The weak link is not the rod but the valve guides wearing out...
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    resistor plugs or not

    The one degree difference was at about 6000 RPM.
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    Juat another quality homeowner job

    Got a guy who tells me to make sure i put them back on 90 degrees apart. It is not a timed deck. I can't convince him it doesn't matter.
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    resistor plugs or not

    I have used both resistor and non resistor plugs j19lm and rj19lm in push mowers and never saw a difference. Some guys see a difference in hand helds. I pretty much use resistor in all 2 strokes any more. Can't remember last time i ordered non resistor plugs for OPE. I do run nonresistor champ...
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    resistor plugs or not

    When i joined the army i went to military intelligence basic morse school. You got 13 weeks to be able to copy 18 WPM. Wash out rate was 50%. You sat 55 minutes per hour copying code 8 hours a day 5 days a week for 13 weeks. In my prime i could copy 22 WPM of canned code. But that was 40+ years ago.
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    resistor plugs or not

    QRQ 20 IMI K.
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    resistor plugs or not

    Ain't you just a "good buddy".
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    Multimeter recommendation for riding mower troubleshooting

    https://www.autelsale.com/wholesale/autel-powerscan-ps100-circuit-tester.html?gclid=CjwKCAjwoZWHBhBgEiwAiMN66eO6USULJkfFhElBXUsRqXja7zwkWzPVAWzcXrxXqpWtBP93pKG11hoCS8cQAvD_BwE Use this 90% of the time...
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    B&S Vanguard fuel solenoid not available

    If chineese Honda knockoffs become the new industry standard i wonder if there will be knockoffs of the knockoffs?
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    Juat another quality homeowner job

    Pretty sure the owner did it all. Looks like the real issue is a bad fuel pump.
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    Juat another quality homeowner job

    How much does he want to spend?
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    Juat another quality homeowner job

    Oh yeah. Once i undo everything the owner did i will figure out what is really wrong with it. He screwed up the valves and the carb linkage and all the muffler bolts are stripped out and one of the valve cover bolts wasn't metric. And the hits just keep on coming.
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    Juat another quality homeowner job

    Speaks for itself
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    B&S Vanguard fuel solenoid not available

    A local dealer told me his supplier told him that briggs has stopped ordering engine parts for the spares system. Hope it is a bad rumor but What does that tell you?
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    What grease should I use on lawn mower steering joints?

    A restaurant hired me to fix a commercial Bunn coffee maker and i had to provide a signed statement that the silocone RTV i used to seal it back up was NSF approved food grade. Same for the grease i used on a meat slicer.
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    Finding a Legit Oil Filter

    And to think that for over 100 years they made internal combustion engines with no oil filter. Many aircraft engines don't have oil filters. Even the Volkswagen beetle doesn't have an oil filter. Now we all know that if you don't use the finest oil and filter your lawnmower engine it will self...
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    Finding a Legit Oil Filter

    Motor oil Hydro oil Spark plugs Time for an oil filter thread Stens for most everything. Briggs, kohler, Kawasaki, John Deere don't make oil filters. It begins.
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    What grease should I use on lawn mower steering joints?

    I will second the red #2 from tractor supply. Use it for everything but stuff that needs EP grease.
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    Spark Plug

    I believe the original plug in question is of CW? Set BFO slightly off center of freq and set bandwidth to 1 KC. Will sound like it is under water but will eliminate most the crap. Did you ever have to deal with the Russian woodpecker?
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    Carburetor study with microscope plus Smarter Every Day video

    I have it on good authority that more than one alphabet agency has had you under surveillance for quite some time. And this coming from a guy who actually used to do intelligence gathering for the NSA in the 70's
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    Predator engine

    I go for a NGK BPR6ES OR BPR5ES in the predators
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    Predator engine

    I would put in a new sparkplug. The chineese plugs are notorious for being bad out of the box. I have not had much luck with any of the chineese plugs.
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    Carburetor study with microscope plus Smarter Every Day video

    40kHz water is your friend. Just had a black SUV drive past my house rwice.
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    Carburetor study with microscope plus Smarter Every Day video

    Been there and done that. Amazing what 20 or 30 million sheets will do to metal parts that are supposed to never wear out. We got the "best oil" thread We got the "best sparkplug" thread Now we got the "best way to clean a small hole in a piece of brass" thread And to avoid controversy i will...
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    Carburetor study with microscope plus Smarter Every Day video

    While we all have our favorite method to clean jets. Some of which have been blessed by angels and others which will result in the end of life on the planet. One of the uses for the torch tip cleaners is to slightly open up the main jets on these new mowers that are so lean they surge. I know...
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    Where to buy replacement engines

    Fitted a few HF predator engines to replace 5hp briggs. Seem to work OK. No customer complaints. For name brand engines northern tool and small engine warehouse.
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    IS700Z - Iridium plugs FYI

    Doing my best to just bite my tongue.
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