Recent content by l008com

Isn't loctite just going to burn off after a few minutes of running the motor?

I've only used a helicoil once on an MTB brake caliper and it works really good. The only issue was that it was really hard to keep the tap perpendicular to the hole I was trying to thread. But I did get it eventually, thankfully. These carbon fiber frames are not cheap! But the way spark plug...

Last Fall, I was winterising my equipment and I accidentally stripped the spark plug hole on my yard vacuum. Its a 31 year old machine and I didn't turn that hard, so its probably a failure that has been inching its way to happening for a while. But no worries, this is a great opportunity for...

I see. Too bad they didn't stick a little plug in starter on there, like snow blowers have.

I have a maybe 15 year old craftsman yard vacuum. Long story short, its plastic timing gear melted, so I had to pop the engine off and replace it with a new one, that was metal. When I opened the motor, I was expecting a melted camshaft. But the camshaft looked perfect and the gear that spins it...

So I took apart the mechanism where the starter pawls retract. There was one weird piece of plastic in there that I thought might be causing sounds, so I tossed it and reassembled. Started it up, still rattley noise. While it was running, I very slightly pulled the starter rope until the pawls...

Yeah there is a misfire but thats not what we're trying to fix here right now. Towards the middle of the video, when i've taken teh cover off and i put it back on, the sound gets very loud. It is definitely coming form the cover but I can't see anywhere it would be coming from, nothing looks...

Ok so last night i went to 'prove' the sound wasn't coming from the plastic cover and it turns out, its coming from the plastic cover! HAHA. Thats good because now I don't have to remove and open the crankcase. But its bad because I still can't figure out where the sound is coming from. The...

This is a machine I've had lots of previous posts about and done lots of repairs to. It has a very subtle misfire that I just can't fix. Possibly low compression from slightly scraped up cylinder wall? Either way, its plenty good enough. I mowed my large yard with it today and it works fine...

UPDATE: I contacted another random company online asking if they had a picture of the part they were selling with the number 590534. After going back and forth a bit and hearing my problem, he was able to contact briggs directly and get an answer. They messed up, all these seals are going out...

Yes I tried to see if it will fit. Its a totally different part in a totally different shape so theres no way to even try to install it. Its like trying to install a square peg in a round hole.

Those numbers were so finely engraved that they were completely invisible to my naked eye, but alas:

That was me! With the paint! But those were numbers engraved in the metal cover of a yard vac motor. The numbers for this motor are printed on a label and are perfectly legible. Also if you search for the part number, you will fine SOME sites that have the correct valve listed! But even those...

The 3rd and 4th pictures in your set of pictures are not the same seal. The 3rd one is what people keep sending me and the 4th one is actually what came out of my motor.

How can I do this? I can't find any way to contact them, they only deflect to 3rd party "authorized" resellers.