Recent content by JimP2014

Auto dock I do appreciate your comment but I was thinking like a $30 solution to try and move leaves a lot better than typical mower deck blades. For years I have used the typical riding mower with just regular high lift blades that if you make a pass say going north to south you can push...

Just to be clear on what I think would work is take an existing blade off the machine which is perfectly balanced + put it in a vise so that the star is in the middle of the vise and then heat both ends very hot and then rotate the blade because it's melted and twist it 90° and let it cool I'm...

Wait maybe what I'm saying is different I'm saying for a single blade that's already on the machine you would weld an 8-in piece on one side say the far left and then an 8-in piece on the other side say the far right and they both point straight down towards the ground that's what I'm saying is...

Yeah I got you on that you need to keep balance.

What you wrote is a good analysis of the design. My idea was first off you need to be in late fall and the lawn needs to be a very low height already. Only dry leaves should on the lawn. Also do this in batches, do not wait until all leaves have fallen, I don't think you could plow thru say 4"...

And will this work I have no idea someone can go build a prototype and let me know. Jim

I was hoping rivets can design this

Or the other idea I had was to keep your existing blades on the machine and then you have this two-piece fan blade system that mounts to the existing mower deck blades + basically creates a blade that looks perpendicular to the existing mower deck blade so you would retrofit each blade with this...

So I wish someone would invent something like fan blades for a mower deck so it would be a typical mower deck blade but as you go out towards the ends of the blade the surface rotates so that it looks like a fan and you would set your deck to the highest setting Mount those things and then blow...

Yes same here another drought this summer. I have such a neighbor ( OCD and other oddities ) that learned last summer not a good idea to create a dust storms. Very amusing to watch.

I agree with you. I watch people that have to pick up the grass clippings and then wonder why even after hiring "green grass specialists" that put the nittrogen back into their lawn, they end up with a lawn that is not as green as mine. And I do nothing to it. It is funny. Not that I care about...

Thank-you Tiger. So either mulch them up very fine or get a backpack leaf blower and move them intact to someplace else. No other choices here. I was hoping to use the power of say 19HP from the riding mower to do what a 4HP backpack leaf blower can do. I thought those were about $1000 but it...

Hello I wonder if anyone sells a mower deck blade which is designed for leaves. So it would be a blade that basically starts out parallel to the ground and then rotate to 90°.. could even be made out of carbon fiber or some type of very high strength plastic snot designed to cut grass it's...

I was able to install a new head gasket on this 19.5 horsepower Briggs& Stratton OHV engine I ran it a couple times and someone mentioned about checking the torque on the head bolts after running it for a little while and I did do that + below is something that I had read which I never knew but...

I just inspected around the breather tube and the fuel filter and going back towards where the steering wheel is and I noticed dirt particles that had oil on them. I am confused as to what this means I am to do next. This is from before, meaning I am not sure if I fixed this in the short 10...

Briggs & Stratton recently changed to a new design cylinder head bolt for model 210000, 310000, and 330000 OHV engines. The new bolts require a higher torque during installation. At the same time, we have modified the bolt tightening sequence to reduce chances of head warpage at the higher...

So this is the engine running there was major smoke and it was most likely coming from when I took the valve cover gasket off so I ran it on say idle for about 10 minutes it seems to be okay but this is the part that I just can't predict what'll happen when the machines actually in use + it's...

So I think this video shows that little bump and that would prove the compression mechanism is working. The video was upside down the intake valve is really on the bottom.

But the one thing that I really should mention because to figure something out you have to know all the background or the problem what was going on is it it was smoking like white smoke coming out of the muffler area and then when I shut down the engine there would be smoke coming out of the...

Thank you for the reply dark here now but tomorrow morning I can get going on that flywheel is torqued down to I think 90 90 foot pounds and it's entirely possible because that rocker arm was extremely loose then when I started the engine it was because of that and not so much because of that...

One thing I forgot to ask am I focusing the video on where those springs are or on the other side where those push rods are? Thanks,

I will make a video of this bump or non bump, I am leaning more towards no bump ( bad ) but I do not know for sure.

Bentrim I do know what you speak, and I was wondering that. A few years ago I watched a video by FNGuitar player ( something like that ) and he called it a bump. I was trying to figure this out earlier. I had no conclusion either way. I am taking your instructions "outside" I am not getting it...

This is the video of that rocker arm shaking here is the video of the rocker arm shaking I'm not sure if when it's not under tension it should shake this violently?

So I checked all the linkages + they seem fine I took off the valve cover gasket the exhaust valve specifically that hex nut and that torx screw they were very loose so that means the exhaust valve was always open I guess and maybe that explains why the engine went into this high Rev situation...

Wow good points. I am on autopilot with this thing and not paying attention - Thanks! "lower valve while turning the engine over you should see a small movement " <-- will check that out too. One thing I failed to mention here was one of those head bolts ended up with a rounded hex head. So...

So the latest is it runs so erratically as soon as you start the engine it seems like after ruling out the flywheel key it has to be a carburetor issue Or I messed up with the valve clearances but I'm including a picture of the flywheel and the key and based on what I see I'm going to say I'm...

The noise it was rattling that had to do with a belt guide that has been fixed. So I took apart the cylinder head portion of the engine cleaned everything put in a new head gasket set the gap for the intake at 0.004 and for the exhaust 0.006. I basically put the rest of the engine the top...

Yeah now that I know what it is and I'm reading what you're saying that's the noise it's a scraping noise it's not that easy to bend that belt guide back away from the pulley I just don't want to break anything with heavier equipment let's say.

I just wanted to give an update on that rattling noise so it turns out the front left belt guide is in close contact with the pulley for the mower deck and that pulley comes off the drive shaft so I don't know if it's supposed to make contact if somehow u-shaped belt guide was bent but that...

So I put the belt back on over the belt guide the one for way up front the drive shaft mower deck pulley and the noise goes away completely while rotating the flywheel. It should be the case where when everything is correctly configured there's a noise when you remove the belt over that guide...

So I tried what you said and nothing changed and so I tried to kind of get on the ground and make a long story short something to do with the drive shaft the pulley + the mower deck belt so I just slightly unhook the belt so to speak + the noise went away so there's something going on and I have...

Hello thank you very much I will try that tomorrow. Jim

I changed my mind it's not a rattling noise it's more like a wild boar but it's real unfortunately.

If you have a list of eight things or 10 things that it could be I have that list already thanks on that but I'm interested in knowing exactly what it is so if you don't know that I already got the general list or even if you can narrow it down to two things that would be fantastic truly Jim

So here's a video I made today so the background story is Friday I started noticing white smoke coming out of the muffler took off the air filter and there was white smoke coming out of that I was thinking it's probably a head gasket so I took off the cylinder head and removed the spark plug and...

"Using JB Weld and Duct tape on a Craftsman. You might be overqualified as a design engineer for Craftsman and Murray.". Forest maybe you picked up on my level of frustration with why I have to even mess with this stuff so I figured duct tape is good enough if it can't fix it why put more...

I did reread this, and the actual frame is blocking it. I often wondered about switching wheel/tire (s) to larger ones? Or maybe keep the wheels and get larger tires? I watched all of the video just now. One thing I did notice even with Cub Cadet is the belt can get an angle ( not the best...

Wait hold up you got what I meant incorrect I didn't mean 5 in I meant setting five it's just a number on the side of the machine it translates into maybe 2 in or 3 in I apologize if that wasn't clear I don't mean 5 in height to cut the grass. This Craftsman LT 2000 has a numerical guide on the...

Thank you so much for your reply here's what I can tell you on setting one I'm cutting 2 in into the dirt . On setting 2 , I'm scraping the topsoil. I On setting three I'm scalping the lawn the tires are filled with the appropriate amount of air and I looked this up several years ago like how...

But one thing I don't know if this can be done but this website they have a poll for deck height in other words on this machine Craftsman lc2000 you have a range from 1 one the lowest setting up to six the highest setting so normally for me anyways I cut the lawn in position 5 + that should be...

I plan on watching all 23 minutes Tomorrow

Forest thank you very much for the video I got through 6 minutes of it the guys like he could have courses on this stuff it's so thorough but it's 23 minutes long I do realize that the the only thing I could do other than you know replacing the deck is to use the JB weld and so far that's worked...

I'm afraid to tell you how I fixed it because there are people that actually know how to weld and I haven't learned that skill but here's a way I thought about the problem welding is more or less creating a better bond with metal so I chose JB weld two-part epoxy and I smeared it all around...

The title of the finished product is, " I am not the man but this ain't bad". The person who said sometimes that mount for the pulley that square notch cause a major problem + fixing that was instrumental. Jim