Recent content by Old fiddler

I must be a scrapper - I would have grabbed that off the front lawn in a heartbeat- set down the ramps and tug it up into the truck bed - 🤪

If you are not good with mechanical skills/troubleshooting/electrical schematics, taking it so someone to swap out a motor is probably not cost effective- I have a 33 year old MTD that cuts very well, and I was able to swap out the motor with a used one off fakebook M-place - but it cost me...

Well, so far, it worked

I had an AGM battery fail under warranty @23 months, replaced it, and @21 months the second one started to start slow in the 40 degree weather - I used a charger designed for AGM batteries, and had a “recondition” mode, and after 12 hours on r”recondition”, it was operational once again. Luck...

I had 2 - 2 stroke Echo back packs that had low compression, would not start, had spark, gas, and it ended being stuck rings on one of them and a broken ring in the other one. Both have been running nicely for 3 years since repaired

Perfect - thank you so much - I did verify the pump hoses were routed properly and pumped fuel (nice volume) I’ll terminate the wires and get busy cutting - thank you again. (It has become kind of a game to see how long I could keep this old girl running - the deck is getting a little tattered...

My 32 year old lawn tractor finally blew up and I am replacing the 12.5 hp Briggs that had no voltage regulator with a 28P777 0641 A1 14 hp Briggs that has a voltage regulator. 1) Do I simply hook the red wire on the regulator to power off the switch? It is a 2 wire voltage regulator if it...

Thank you, I will look at his YouTube first - I got a new kit for it, just haven’t had time to work on it - lights started going on in my GMC Sierra 😖 Just another challenge when life was too smooth 🤪

Thank you - that is what I just ordered a couple days ago - I will save the link

Thank you - contacted Zama for the information and they gave me the rebuild kit number which I ordered - waiting for it to arrive - I hope they were right 😜

Only number on the carb is an H17 26G Zama - I e-mailed them - have not heard back

I searched for a carb kit - not much success - any suggestions?

Thank you - I was going to do that while it is apart when I clean the carb -

Thank you, they are I will fiddle some more and let you know

Fuel is fresh and mixed correctly- I will clean the carb and see what happens