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talk to a local Ariens warranty station in general to see if they have encountered it before.

I used to cut an old plastic pepsi bottle so I could slide it up and have the oil run into it and aim where the cap goes at the pan. I have also taken a piece of sheet metal and quickly fabricated a guard that keeps oil off things. If one puts a rigid pipe in, it is subject to breaking at the...

A couple times a year I pressure wash our bag outside inwards to open up the holes in the weave that have been plugged, and make sure it drains out away from the mower. That helps a lot. As the bag fills remember that the surface area for it to blow out is reduced in many bag types, and this...

or use a smaller mower for just around the trees or cut the lower limbs higher are also options to consider.

If it is truely too fast then most likely the governor is not connected right or is not working. You can get an app for your smart phone that gives RPM from sound waves to tell you what the actual RPM is.

usually folks here want a model and serial number if they are going to look up parts or a manual to answer a question that might be model and serial specific.

having been thru maybe 12 hurricanes in my life, it is common to not even be able to get home for 17 hours. More like 48 to 72. Also, Ask This Old House had a discussion on installing car chargers last week. A level one charger, 120V, charges at about 2 - 3 miles distance per hour. A level two...

just as an FYI, Toro 21352 is not listed in that manual although it may cover it. There are two sequences depending on serial number at Toro. Good Luck.

You have some kind of fuel mixture or fuel shortage problem. You may need to go thru all the basics to find the issue. Check head torque, valve clearances, fuel in the carb bowel. etc. Also on those carbs with the stepped bowl, they have to go in the correct direction to allow the float to...

make sure the belt is tensioned properly and the wheels are lubricated. Pushing the handle forward should cause the belt to grab more. There is also a drive cable that has to be properly adjusted and not binding. The manual can be downloaded from Toro. You may need to pull the rear wheels off...

I'd be checking the oil for gas in it.

all they had to do to on those 3 engines to increase HP was raise the working RPM. All engines made from jet engines to ship turbines to FI racing cars to the smallest lawn mower are equal when they are turned off. They make zero HP at that RPM.

Even the US military occasionally loses remote devices when something interferes with the signal. Hope you have some kind of automatic cut off using a TTL so it doesn't get away and hurt someone.

some places say to dethatch kikuyu, others say to scalp it. Some say both. I don't know what is best for it. I got some here that a bird or something brought in, and it took three tries to kill it all off. I will tell you that you should get basic soil tests from a local soil lab for minerals...

HP can increase as the engine RPM goes up. For example, I was built a 1438cc SCCA GP race car that could go faster than its twin, a SCCA FP 1608cc because the shorter stroke 1438cc reved higher - hence more HP overall. But off the hard corners the 1608cc would pull away at first. The 1438cc was...

have you put a volt meter on the circuit to see if the voltage changes at the time it dies?

did you replace the spark plug? Compression changes the voltage needed to fire so a carbon track that might jump under compression might be fine outside the cylinder. Personally at this point I would pull the plug, squirt a half teaspoon of fuel into the cylinder thru the plug hole and try again.

I ordered a motor for a compressor that they said they had in stock although it was out of stock everywhere else. 30 days later they had not shipped it and said they didn't have one yet although they billed me on day one. I had to have the credit card company refund it because they were dragging...

hold the throttle butterfly steady with your hand and see if the engine speed stabilizes. If so it may be the governor.

sounds like a fuel starvation issue. Try pulling the air filter and cupping your hands closer and closer to the carb inlet as it starts to surge. See if that affects the behavior. If the engine smooths out as you move your cupped hands closer than it is running lean. If it gets worse then it is...

Ask this old House this week discussed EV chargers, levels 1 thru 3. Level 3 requires 400V to 900V commercial power (usually 3-phase) so it won't end up in many homes. Now the kicker that totally ended the EV discussion for me. Level one, that typically comes with the car and looks like a large...

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Have a 2006 Toro 20055 Super Recycler Personal Pace rear wheel drive mower, aluminum deck, that is smoking more and more on start up. Doesn't burn oil after the initial cloud, and oil level seems constant and no smell of fuel in it. Runs fine but it is now 16 years old with about 2 +/- hours use...

just looking at the original photo and not having the specs nor wanting to read a lengthy manual for someone else's project, the points gap looks huge in the photo. Maybe that is how they designed them I dunno. Generally if you don't get the points gap proper and clean that area up to have a...

you may have to research it by comparing what yours looks like to what is for sale. A genuine carb for that general model on Ebay is $75. Some of the clones and alternates are in the $20 range. Is it worth it? An Internet search engine should help you find diagrams of the trimmer and the model...

I am out. Maybe someone else can help you. You seem to be asking how to set the top speed of the engine when the manual says it is self-governing. The governor either works or it does not. If it works it will be somewhere around 3000 RPM +.- several hundred RPM.

According to that manual, the speed governor built into the engine controls the high speed. Basically the engine runs wide open at full speed but the governor pulls it back to whatever the governor mechanism is designed for. When the governor fails it will run too fast. You may need the engine...

pull the plug out, pull it thru four or five times to flush out the cylinder of vapors and flooding, then try again. Make sure the fuel is fresh.

Here is what is in the manual I found. You are looking for how to adjust the governor. That is likely to be a mechanical adjustment where the governor will determine the speed regardless how much you play with it. Likely there will be proper clearances etc., in the service manual for the engine.

sometimes it helps to add the model and serial number. In GENERAL these small motors run somewhere around 2800 - 3400 RPM but It may not be the motor that determines what the RPM should be. It may be the parts it is attached to, meaning the impeller and its parts may limit what RPM they can spin...

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what they are saying is stop creating new threads for the same problem. You will only make it harder on yourself. Keep the chain of events in one thread.

my instinct tells me you need to take it to a mechanic. Any gasoline engine needs 3 things to run. The first step in any solution is to figure which of those three things is missing. The first step comes before starting to take things apart or guessing what part might be the culprit. My guess...

I'd use something lighter in case it hangs up on something so it will bend easily to come out. If a coat hanger gets caught it is sayonara tank.

with the engine running at a high idle e.g about 1/2 speed, drizzle/spray with spray bottle some water into the carb - drizzle/spray with spray bottle not pour. The drizzle will make it run rough, if so open the throttle a little more to keep it running. You do not want to use so much that it...

generally the 205-16 is the bearing number, and the other numbers are the types of seals and other fine points of the bearing. For example one letter might mean a single lip seal while another might be a double lip seal, or an open back, rubber seal vs stainless with rubber etc.. Same for the...

probably the mower number and serial would be easier to find a blade for than the engine.

I gave up because I could not guess what the actual problem is. I put my forehead to the computer screen and nothing came to me. Oh well. I admit I am just not that good at "playing charades" or "sounds like." But I will take "Engine problems for $200."

car clutches have many different materials. I was thinking maybe it was similar to the material in a limited slip differential but that is more steel or bronze plates. Example https://racingdiffs.com/collections/lsd-clutch-plate

we used to put undersized o-rings on the crankshafts of the highend bicycles we rode near the beach to keep as much sand as possible out of the seals. Dirt and sand has to get past the o-ring to get to the seal. It doesn't stop all of it but it stops enough. Maybe something like that might help...

yes but it also says not available

Can you see it with a small maglight? Tie a string to the end of the flashlight and put it around your wrist. I use this inexpensive and easy to buy camera to look for things all the time, don't know how it will fare in gasoline...

I found a manual under the PB30. I was hoping the whole assembly had a part number, or a clue that would lead to someone maybe repairing them but it looks like each part is separate. The manufacturer of the assembly appears to be a company named Dixon and they were used about 10 years ago in...

there are many threads on the clutch packs. The people who have fixed them have made their own plates. That said, I could not even find a manual for the unit or full parts diagram without having to pay for it, and the tractor number doesn't even come up on many sites. Why, I have no idea.

One thing you might consider is did you actually run out of gas, or was it low and you THOUGHT you ran out of gas? If you are sure you ran out of gas, sometimes it takes a few minutes for the fuel to fill the bowl. If I run my edger out of gas intentionally, then it won't start for 2 or 3...

I would drain the gas and use fresh gas. Old gas does what you describe.

just a guess but if any hydraulic lines sucked in air maybe they need purging. Also look for damaged or broken parts.

as said, PB Blaster for 24 hours on the threads or Liquid Wrench. Iron/Steel rusts, and when it does it expands as it absorbs O2 molecules. A true penetrating oil will have chemicals in it that cause the red rust to change to black rust, which has a smaller molecule size. As the rust shrinks it...

With a conventional starter and starter solenoid - if it is a STARTER solenoid we are discussing it would have zero volts on the cable out to the starter unless the key is in the start position, then in the start position it would have the same voltage out as in unless the solenoid had corrosion...