Recent content by Hammermechanicman

That about covers it. He clears a grand a month only fixing push mowers. If he makes $50 profit on each mower that is averaging 20 a month or close to 1 a day. Nice gig i guess.

Not trying to diss the guy but i do find it interesting that all these years all i needed was youtube.

Probably 90% of the crap on the internet is horse puckey and 90% of the people reading it are idiots. Of course i am just some hack on the internet spewing BS about lawnmowers that i know nothing about.

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I would 1 check coil for spark 2 remove rocker cover and check valve lash. 3 if equipment available do a leakdown test. 4 if equipment not available remove head and check valves and head gasket.

Disconnect one plug wire and start engine. Does it start? How does it run? Disconnect the other plug wire and start it. Does it start? How does it run? Do you have a dead cylinder?

Make sure the valves are adjusted properly. There on vids on utube Make sure to use a new valve cover gasket. The valve cover is part of the crankcase compression and must be sealed. Dump all the fuel out and turn unit muffler down toward the ground and pull the recoil a dozen times to clear...

I think every small shop knows this guy or his twin brother LOL

Google "GP-2929-02" and you will get lots of hits.

I believe the marks on the flywheel are from the engine brake which is normal.

The cap to the oil tank has a diostick built into it. Usually when low on oil the pump will make a distinct whining sound.

Famous quote from Abraham Lincoln. "Not everything on the internet is true."

He probably means the cylinder is extended and won't retract. Assuming a double acting cylinder either control valve problem or low on fluid where pump is sucking air. You are right. Need more info.

Got no dog in this fight but just an observation. When i got out of the service i got a job for a year driving a truck for a lumber yard. Ford F800 from the 60's with a small straight 6. Probably half the HP of the yard's newer V8 trucks but my old truck had a split axle. Empty the other trucks...

First thing to do is look in the tank and check for rust. If the tank is rusty you have some decisions to make before moving forward.

Got the other blades and spindles off. Bert you were right the nonbuggared up ones have the hole and shear pin. The buggerd one has the hole rusted over and i didn't see it and the wrong blade without the holes. Thanks for the info.

I think you may be right. Wilbur may have been here.

Yeah the first one was scary using the press. Second ine will be a challenge not to break the housing. I know what you mean about NLA parts.

It does not have that type of blade adapter or blades. The blades have a single hole in the middle and blade adapter is just round.

This thing does not have shear pins. Spindles are like most others except for the plastic belt timing pulleys and the deck doesn't tilt up and no Dzus fasteners. It is nimble, kinda like driving a fork lift. Looks like i am the first to ever work on the deck. Had to use the 20 ton press to get...

Got it running and drove it around the yard. It is an interesting machine. Pulled the deck. one spindle had the blade hit something and buggared up the plastic pulleys and froze bearings and broken gilmer belt. Middle spindle has growling bearings. Both belt idlers have shot bearings. Guy wants...

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You got the engine right. I think this is a "pulled out if the barn" special. I fixed the no crank problem and it starts but runs like crap and when you engage the blades it sounds horrible. Any chance i could get a look at the manual to get the deck off this thing? Thanks. Took a bit to figure...

Appears to be a cross between a Ventrac wannabe and a carnival bumper car.

I see what you did there. LOL 😜

Don't forget Madden I have given up on MLB. The Reds suck anyway. We have a minor league farm team that i enjoy going to games vs going to downtown cincy for a Reds game. I will never buy a ticket to a NFL game but i do like the occasional free ones. Could not care less about basketball. Never...

I enjoyed it. I have learned to just ignore the racial and woke stuff. Most of the commercials were just juvenile and stupid and just plain skipped watching the halftime crap. I just focus on the game. I coached peewee for 7 years and one of my sons played Div 1 college ball. I enjoy a good...

Outboards have many advantages. Weight, ease of mounting, ease of maintenance, less space used in boat. Back when 125HP outboard was considered big if you wanted big HP it was an I/O. If you have ever done much work on boats you will find most I/Os are a PITA to work on.

Lots of boat shops use oil extractors. Some I/Os are an absolute pain to get to the oil pan. Let's stuff a car engine in a boat. Of course with the 4 stroke outboards up to 600HP I/Os are a dying breed. As they should be.

Never under estimate a good pipe wrench and a 6 ft. Pipe "torque amplifier"

Gee, i wonder how they will replace the massive amount of road use excise tax revenue lost to EVs as they phase out those evil gasoline powered vehicles? Let's just charge everyone a mileage tax.

Wow! This must be the oil thread replacement for 2023. LOL Remember, no low blows and protect yourself at all time and quit on the bell.

Yeah I'm 65 and i don't feel a day over 74.

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Gee. Am i the young guy here at 65? LOL

On MOST not all generators you can disconnect the AVR from the brushes and while running apply 12v from a battery to the brushes and generator should put out around 70vac. Be sure to watch the polarity. You normally get a couple volts from the exciter coil while running and AVR normally puts...

Tried that, didn't work. Did the resistance and voltage tests. AVR gets volts in from exciter coil but no volts out to brushes. If i disconnect AVR and apply 12v to the brushes it puts out 130v. Just kind of amazes me it takes a dump sitting in the barn.

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Well mother trucker. Power went out so rolled the generator out of the barn, put fuel in it. Plug it into the transfer switch and it starts on the first pull and no output??????? Worked fine when i put it away a year ago. After testing looks like the AVR died from setting in the barn. Really?

Suprised how much i use it.

Gee. I will have a perfect seat to watch and it will cost me nothing and the beer will be cheap and my favorite brand. I will get close in VIP parking too.

I don't generally have problems with blade bolts and nuts. A good impact gun and 175psi of air does the trick. If not i have an induction heat gun that will heat the nuts cherry red and not hurt the seals and bearings.

Seems like when the Honda motors with no drain plug showed up Briggs followed their lead. For the guys who tip the mower and have gas run out the cap cap vent. Put a plastic bag under the cap it will stop the leak.

Nope. Don't use belt dressing on belts used in clutching applications. If you need belt dressing to stop a slipping belt you need a new belt or pulleys. Belt dressing is designed to be used or raw edge automotive belts. $.02

As much fun we old farts get from hating on the newfangled electric mowers given time the real players like JD, Scag, Ferris, Toro etc. Will continue to improve and evolve their products. Remember the first battery drills as compared to today's? As energy storage technology improves so will the...

It is bad practice to leave fuel for a long time in any generator. If it must be stored with fuel in it shut off the fuel at the carb and run the carb dry then fill the tank completyly full with E free fuel if you can get it.

Pretty sure it needs new bumper gsakets.

4 banger POS rental car. Took it to the top of the Haleakalā crater at 10,000 ft. It barely made it to the top. The last 1000 feet was in 1st gear floored doing about 15 mph. Coming down pretty much smoked the brakes even with downshifting. Cool thing was the signs that said "turn headlights on...

I am probably luckier than most. I live just outside a small rural village and i am on the same service line as the village sewage plant and the water well. When the wind and ice storms take down power lines one of the first lines fixed in my area is mine. I can see both from my house but i am...

Big green has always been good about parts support so the battery should be available as long as the vendor still makes them. The issue will be the cost. The Stihl AR3000 backpack battery is around $1K. I would assume the mower battery will be in the $2K-4K range. Even best case and say the...

I wonder what replacing the battery will cost. Some battery warranties are prorated after a certain amount of time. I wonder what green will do. Hopefully 100% covered.

I wipe off the dipstick and lay it on the seat till i put oil in. Saved me from a real bad day once when i got distracted by a customer.

It is probably one of the inverter generators made in asia and sold under many brand names. You probably won't find a parts list but if your googlefoo powers are good enough you can probably find a $30 carb that looks exactly like the one on the genny and it will work. I have had to do this a...

I haven't pulled a drain plug in years. One of the best tools in the shop is the HF compressed air extractor. Probably overkill for a homeowner but i started out with one you hand pump that would work fine for them.

I5 for me. Surprised the Road to Hana is on there. Did it back in 1982 before they improved the road. The rental car contract specifically said not to drive the road. It beat the crap out of that Ford Fairmont.

Say what?

Good to hear you survived

Ladies and gentlemen, introducing the new Zippo electric ZTR mower. Guaranteed to light first time every time and the flame is windproof.

Don't sell yourself short. If the other shop is 50 i would probably be 50 an hour also. And don't be too quick to not bill hours. If you are lost in the weeds that is one thing but wrench time is wrench time.

As far as i know some manufacturers supply flat rate manuals for time paid for warranty repairs but that is about it.

I wonder if the battery(s) will have a warranty and if so how long. Or will they be like belts, tires and batteries now? What will the replacement cost of the battery(s) be? And how long are they expected to last? Will the battery(s) be chipped or bluetooth to the mower to prevent any...

I bought a nice 6x12 trailer with fold down ramp. Mounted a HF electric winch on the front. I am too old to be pushing dead mowers onto a trailer.

Bloomberg. What would you expect?

I have a small 8' tilt in the middle trailer i used for a couple years with my mower business. Drama is an understatement. I don't care how slow you go when it tilts it goes very fast and ZTRs are more drama than tractor mowers. I installed a boat trailer winch to pull mowers up because driving...

As much as i hate letting a motor set with ethanol in it i have a 1989 motor home with a carbureted 454. It sat for 5 years in the barn with a battery tender on it. I figured the carb was trashed but i thought i would try to start it. It fired rigth up and ran fine. Amazing.

Nice! since i have a tax free commercial account with the local JD/Stihl dealer they let me lookup parts on their system. It's better than nothing.

He is teasing us. He wants to know how many people tried to click on the pdf files in the pic he posted LoL

Yup, folks bring in stuff they tried to clean the carb on And used carb cleaner and a bread tie wire and ruined the carb. I can fix pretty much anything on a cube carb but the check valve. Got a box of them with bad check valves. Really shouldn't use carb cleaner or brake kleen on cube carbs or...

Hold on there hombre. You trying to cut into my best revenue stream? Ethanol makes me money.

Woo Hoo! Another ethanol gas thread. 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🤣 Where's Scrub? My gas is better than your gas. 😜