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I'm not saying it's an epidemic problem or that I've had dozens of them fail but I just don't see how you can keep it entire set if it was your main set you used frequently and not have a socket crack eventually or some plating come off around the tip from constantly putting it on and off of...

I guess for most of your tools that's okay but I don't see how you can go over 15 to 20 years with tools you use a whole lot without damaging one, maybe cracking a socket or at least the Chrome start to flake off or a ratchet mechanism not working anymore properly or slipping. I understand we're...

Well, when it goes up with oil that means your rings aren't sealing properly but before I would trash it since you said you had lots of carbon on it, there's a high degree of likelihood the rings are just coked up in the Piston lands. This was the problem with all the old original Saturn car...

He used to be the case or at least that's what they rated them at and often spec'd them to run but most machines now have been coming lower than that for a couple of decades. 3100 to 3200 is very common and hardly anything goes over 3400. There are a few commercial applications where they...

But highly unlikely if not impossible to happen on a lawn mower. Only the old engines that were horizontally opposed typically had a coil with two wires coming out of it and even then they designed it sometimes so they wouldn't reach to the other plug but in reality it probably wouldn't have...

On the deck problem, I'm not sure what you mean by the stabilizer bar being all the way down unless you're talking about the front one that it hangs from but it seems to me if it's smoking something is either missed routed on the belt or something has too much friction and doesn't want to turn...

See, this is why I was so adamant and repeated myself many times and I tell everyone in this situation too ONLY USE GENUINE MTD BELTS AND ALWAYS REPLACE THEM BOTH AT THE SAME TIME! My exact words are always that if you do not do this you are likely to have a chattery jerky pedal and or speed...

The fact is you can break any socket when you subject it to conditions beyond its design like using a cheater bar on it or using a half inch ratchet with an adapter on a 3/8 drive socket. I have broken a couple of handfuls of sockets over my 40 plus years of using sockets. I do a lot of work...

You are simply wasting your time if you don't put two brand new MTD brand belts on the machine! I have seen too many instances where an old belt looked great but when a new belt was put with it and they were mismatched like that it had a bad chattering or roughness when you tried to smoothly...

I could warranty that ratchet. I guarantee it. Do you have the original receipt? This could actually be the problem. Because the number of the one they scan won't come up with the number you have so you basically need to go over to the tool section and find the ratchet that looks the closest to...

I have been renting on cars for many decades and started on bicycles when I was about 5 years old and then went on to lawn mowers before I got to cars Most of these repairs have been with Craftsman Brand products especially the sockets and ratchets. Most of these of course were made by Danaher...

Yes, most things are up but you jump up to a different tier level when you start getting separate pumps and wheel motors.

Yes. Old school. But you are then limited to just a few high end commercial machines and the prices are really up there.

You can get my with aftermarket on snow blowers and some really old mowers typically older than 1997 and sometimes on Fwd craftsman BUT I will NEVER install a non MTD rider belt on an MTD mower on the double belt drive (double sheave pulley) system OR the deck blade belt. I have personally seen...

I would call that quite a bit of trouble for the mower actually mainly because of the deck. A lot more deck should never have to be replaced! How smart is have a very bad tendency of one of the rear deck supports breaking the weld and falling off of the deck. This is because the bean counters...

Yep, and also using a torque wrench and maybe even the Briggs recommended tightening sequence for the bolts. Those bolts are fairly wimpy so it certainly wouldn't hurt to replace it with new ones and especially much better ones like grade 8. However, a lot of people just use their 3/8 Drive...

How are you possibly going to find a felpro gasket for a lawn mower engine? The most common one for these is going to be the Briggs which has not been approved at all and is the same old one they've been using for 20 years that certainly will blow out because of the bad design of the head and...

Ah, yes. I forgot or maybe missed that we were talking about a V-Twin here. Those hardly ever blow. In this case we should be looking at what year it is and what design of the air filter housing it has or more importantly if it's bypassing the air filter like so many did that destroyed the rings...

So if they adjusted it because the inside Governor had grenaded and had no Governor action and they were trying to compensate, they should have stopped right there because that is definitely not a proper way to operate an engine and a pain in the butt to try to operate it by a throttle control...

Glad you got it. I don't use any manuals for any of these engines. I just look at the way it's set up and how the throttle cable moves to figure out how it has to be adjusted or how it works in relation to the other parts. Some of these have a plate that has a lot of adjustment sliding that's...

I think you should be able to just to just remove the PTO and I think the pulley up top will stay in its place anyways because it's lined up with the other belt and drive pulleys and it's probably kind of rusted to the crankshaft anyways. Lol You could also take the wires off the PTO and fold...

So what we know so far doesn't make sense. You don't even have to take the flight will off to check the key just take the nut and the washer off and you can look right there to see if it's twisted or not or if the two rectangular slots are lined. The top plastic fingers are only there for The...

It is very rare and I do mean very rare to have one of these engines who are the valve guides that is going to create a problem with visually smoking. You might get a little increased or consumption but you're not going to see it so it's nothing to worry about. I have my doubts about the head...

Anytime you're dealing with a governor issue, you always need to stop everything else and do a static governor adjustment. You can't adjust these things a little bit here or a little bit there like many people think they can so they will loosen them and move them just a little bit and all of...

It really shouldn't be rocket science. Most of the time when a belt gets damaged quickly it is because it is routed improperly or going around the wrong side of a keeper etc or rubbing on something. You always need to thoroughly inspect the routing and reach underneath and move one or both of...

He needs to be careful about lumping them all into one category too. Even though at one time the Craftsman's were basically a Husqvarna even though the company they owned was called ayp at the time... Now, the majority of Craftsman riders are going to be made by MTD so people should not think...

No! It sounds like this guy is a car mechanic friend and not a lawn mower tech. Unfortunately auto mechanics often do a lot more harm than good on the small engines because they're simply too different. While I have heard of some odd things happening to the magnets on a flywheel that wasn't...

The cheapest I have ever seen a new vertical push mower engine like this was either 169 or 179 at a Rural King local store several years ago. Back then, before mower prices had skyrocketed and gone up $100 or more, it was not cost-effective at all to even consider replacing one of these. Now it...

Possibly but I think it would cost more than that just to get the rod and the gasket and the quart of oil. It might be better but I never find it's the most cost-effective way to repair an engine problem that's internal crankcase. People throw away so many mowers or you can buy one for 25 bucks...

It is NEVER cost-effective to have a new engine put on a mower especially a push mower.. It is not very cost effective to buy a new one yourself and put it on. The ONLY wait it's cost-effective is if you can buy a good used engine and transplant it. It is also hardly ever cost effective to...

It's really not about maintenance. It's more about not neglecting and or abusing it. The two often get mixed together though because if someone changes their oil once or even twice a year then they are fairly unlikely to run it low on oil which is actually abuse and or neglect from letting it...

I don't know how to respond other than to say you come across like you are obsessed with Trump and the hatred of him. Maybe not, maybe you just like to go down the rabbit hole and research a lot of stuff. Half of that stuff or maybe more than half of that stuff I've never even heard of or not...

Pretty much everything is open to corruption and especially in this day and age. With all that convenience and laziness that promotes it, you increase the greater likelihood. The two-party system we have... Absolutely is the biggest part of the problem!! People are sheep though and sheep like to...

I do believe a better word would have been elitism or snobbery etc because that word racism and racist is used far too often by too many people as a broad catch-all term when it's just not right. I can fully believe that the dumbest people you've worked with have been Americans because our...

And yet throughout history they have always or at least often turned into dictatorships. That is precisely why you had to point out that it's when they turn into dictatorships that there becomes a big problem. That goes back to your very accurate comment about human nature and humans being the...

Nikki Is the other common one.

I can't possibly imagine why you would choose to go this way! And for those badly corroded ones, lol... Sulfuric acid instead of a can of carb spray or Barrymans.... That's a really big straining a gnat and swallowing a camel situation. In that situation of cleaning that carburetor, carb...

Unfortunately, these Kohler carb parts are overpriced and they don't sell just the two gaskets you need etc like Tecumseh does or individually like Briggs does. They only have like a minor, major, and complete kit. You're almost better off to buy an aftermarket carburetor online because you can...

No you shouldn't. Lol For some reason, in the past 15 or so years are you at handful of people have bought these and they kind of insist on using them to clean out carburetors when it's a lot more time and effort on their part plus the expensive buying the cleaner. Then there's the big...

There was nothing racist about his statement at all. Opinionated- yes. Negative and derogatory towards a public school system (US I'm assuming)..... but not racist. If we're going to be accurate and specific in our discussions about parts, specifications, belt size etc then we also should be...

I think the simplest way to put but an actual reason to it is that in the us, the problem is the people, well certain people and a number of the people. Lol I'm serious. Enough bad decisions or going down and staying down the wrong path long enough can screw up anything. Frankly, it's amazing...

I think it's pathetic that we have to keep cutting it. We should have artificial maybe even stuff that goes you and down to simulate growth and you push a button to retract (mow) it. Lol Maybe a spray that once you get it joining his you want.... It stays that way. I don't care ONE BIT what my...

Yes, but when you say -all the issues of gas tools- it already sounds like you have quite a preference towards battery ones. Lol Of the many gas handheld tools like this I have owned and used over the decades, I don't find there to be a lot of issues as at all. The only thing that would be...

I've been using that belt measuring device since at least 1988 but I got a part-time job in an Autoworks. It does work quite well for measuring but unfortunately it's the quality of the belts that I have more of a problem with so I stopped using anything but OEM unless it's just like on a...

I have seen too many Pix that that just work good quality as far as longevity. The OEM belts would last for well over a decade and sometimes two and the Pix about would work well enough but wouldn't even last 2 to 3 years. Probably by design. This is quite long enough to make the average...

Who cares! We're just sitting around talking as some of us always do. Lol We'll cover some more stuff later. Sit back and relax...

The engineer in me is far outweighed by the mechanical inclination and that efficiency and many of the theoretical advantages are outweighed by real-world experience. I will always relate my experience with RC cars in the late 70s and early '80s. They had cheap toy ones and then they had...

I've even had problems the couple of the Green Gates belts so even though Gates make some of the best automotive belts in the industry, I would never choose their belts for a lawn mower clutching application over an oem belt.

You said convenience that outweigh the advantages of gas. This will probably be true for some of these professionals you mentioned. I'm assuming you meant white collar professional people in that and certainly not lawn care professionals who cut grass for a living because you covered that in...

I WILL NOT have any of them! I'll keep used and if they try to outlaw using that... THEY can come cut the damn stuff as I only do it so the city won't come put a sign in the yard! They actually put a bright green 5x11 sticker on the front door or garage door(if facing the street) and then it you...