Recent content by sano888

So I installed a kill switch and it works like it should. Might not be the prettiest set up but it does the trick. Thank you so much for helping me out. Something neat about this project. My wife and I are foster parents. We just had a 16 year old move in with us recently. He is interested...

I use this site when I have a problem. I appreciate the sage advice given. I value learning and have learned quite a bit about small engines over the years, mostly so I can keep my equipment running at minimal cost. I enjoy working with tools and the satisfaction of being able to fix...

The Green wire goes from the coil to the connector in the third picture. It either dead ends there or goes on to the right side of the solenoid as a red wire. If it dead ends, do I need to run a wire from it to a switch to the frame? Do I need to ground the green wire out of the coil to kill...

OK, here's what I have: 1. Coil with green wire coming out going into the black wire protector along with a red wire 2. The green and red wire 3. G and R wires into a connector. Red wire out to solenoid 4. R wire connects to right side of solenoid Green wire out of right side of solenoid...

I don't believe so. I will check next time I'm at that property. I removed the battery after it died and took the bracket off along with the battery cables. Have just been pull starting it. FIL passed in 2003 and all I can ever remember is shutting it off by decreasing the throttle. He...

Sorry it took so long. I have not touched the throttle control other than to tighten it a bit at the throttle lever on the handle.

I have a Troy-Bilt Horse tiller I from 1975 left to me from my father-in-law. It has an HM80 on it. Whenever I wanted to shut it off, I would throttle it down and it would die out. Just cleaned and rebuilt the carb. Now when I throttle down it just idles slowly. I'm having to choke it out...