Recent content by WallaceRoger

Ok, will check the valves and for head gasket leaks first. I had the heat on to 50c on the ultrasonic cleaner, but if the valve/head isn't the issue I'll give that another try!

I'm having a similar issue, I picked a mower from the trash on our annual spring cleaning day. Mower had old nasty gas in it, a bad safety control cable and the air cleaner had pretty clearly never been changed. Took the carb all apart and sprayed it out with cleaner, got a gasket kit for it and...

I have another good engine I'm dropping into this deck, so Ill pull the bottom and retorque those bolts. Thanks!

I had an interesting experience with a Lawn-Boy series F engine from a mower built approx 1989. The mower itself was in really nice shape physically and came to me at very low cost as nonrunning, so I figured probably just old gas in the carb. Sure enough I cleaned that up, replaced a leaky fuel...

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Nevermind, I found a shop manual online! Link in this thread https://www.lawnmowerforum.com/threads/older-lawnboy-parts.48056/

I picked up some cheap Lawn-Boys from a junk dealer, supposedly with stuck engines, but I discovered they just had issues with the pull starts. So I'm cleaning and fixing to sell. Whenever I pick up mowers, they usually have the wrong plug in them and these are probably no different. The...

Thanks, got the Briggs manual. TMO-3708709 looks close. This mower is not self propelled so can't be the other one. I might have to just satisfy myself with the engine manual.

Hi guys. I picked this old Montgomery Ward mower up pretty cheap last week, it works great and starts on the first pull despite evidence of very minimal maintenance. It can mulch or side discharge but I'm using the bag because the pieces to convert it to those are missing. I haven't been able to...

I decided to just give them a good hand tighten. Now to get it all back together. Thanks guys

I picked this Craftaman leaf blower up as part of a bulk purchase of various non-running mowers and string trimmers. It seems like a decent machine and I found a manual over at manualslib. It wouldn't start and was making a rattling noise so I pulled it apart and discovered the cylinder was...

I figured it out, the governor blade is missing. Someone was in here before me. :) A few bucks on fleabay and I'll be up and running!

I'll give that a shot, thanks!

Hi guys, I picked up a "non-running" Poulan HD4QN20RE with a Briggs Quattro 10A902 engine for a few bucks. It cleaned up nice and is in good physical shape. Pulled the cover, pull-starter and tins off and discovered the governor springs and the "air vane" (what it's called in the parts manual)...