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Rescued from going to the dump. Front spindles and steering gear froze. Got that fixed so I thing I am going restore it and put in the town farm day parade. Have to see if I have the smallest JD tractor.

After some research found this out. Stens has switched from UPS to FedEx. There are actually two different FedEx shippers. FedEx Ground and FedEx Express. Ground ships by trucks and can take a week or more from ship to delivery. Express uses planes and still does overnight ship to deliver. The...

Got to use my point file today.

1956 Eshelman

Guy picked it up this morning. Quite the project. Fixed non running engine, fixed the clutch, added a battery and electric start to an engine not designed for electric start, fixed the hydraulics. Link to a quick vid

Been swamped for weeks now. Worse than the last couple years and stens taking a week to get parts to me plus half their catalog backordered. Arrrrrrgh.

Guy dropped this off today. Mead Mighty Mouse crawler. From '59 or '60. Has not run for many years. Lots of stuff to work on. He has 2 of these.

Anybody else get the sparkplug email from stens?

Rural King has oil on sale. Went to order 7 5qt jugs online. Cost of oil was $84 and they wanted $309 for FedEx Freight shipping. That was the only shipping option. I think I will pass.

Fan was so tight on the crankshaft that the piston stop put a hole in the top of the piston. Took a 2ft long breaker bar and a lot of a$$ to break it loose.

Guy dropped these off today. Neither has run for years. They are odd collectors items. He said there were very few of either of these made. He bought them sight unseen. I get to bring them back to life. Another adventure!

Customer said it won't start. Both coils are dead. I wonder why

Tried to contact my toolaholic anonymous sponsor but didn't answer so I fell off the wagon again. Already have a 5 gallon one but that one is kinda awkward to use.

I just noticed on carded NGK plugs they have some brands crossed to their plug. My boxed ones don't have it. Funny the cross to Torch plugs. These came from Stens

got a guy who likes to pick up things like this and then brings them to me to get them running. Thus is a mid 50's Tiger Tractor made in west Virginia. Couldn't save the carb so had to replace it and swap out the throttle shaft to make the AM carb work. Fixed the hydraulics. Put a kill switch on...

These 2 filters are the same. The one came off a kohler command 18 that had the entire intake screen completely plugged with dandelion seed. He mowed 2 acres of 10" tall grass and the mower started leaking oil out of the PTO seal. I have never seen an engine so hot that it cooked the label on...

Not trying to diss the guy but i do find it interesting that all these years all i needed was youtube.

Appears to be a cross between a Ventrac wannabe and a carnival bumper car.

Shock mount in front of spark plugs so that once you break the plugs loose you can't use a socket to get them all the way out. After 2 turns you can barely get the socket off and finger the plugs out. If they aren't tight. I'll bet the engineers used to work for Chrysler.

Brand new log splitter won't run. A guy's daughter bought it for him for his birthday and hauled it a hundred miles to him. The "Kohler" engine is a chonda clone. Pulled the carb and it is identical to a $15 Ebay carb down to the markings. Nothing against the clones as they run fine. I wonder...

Hey Star, you got an IPL for this? LOL.

I have noticed that every time someone suggests using starting fluid as a troubleshooting tool people are quick to caution that they can "blow the head off" or "bend the connecting rod" or "bend the valves" or "blow it up". Over the last 50 years i have used starting fluid in literally many...

Some people think that folks here are being jerks when they are continually asking for specifics about a piece of equipment after a poster looking for help says i have a XYZ brand (whatever is on the hood) model mower. Here are pics of 2 Troy-Bilt Tuffy garden tillers. Although similar there are...

Customer brings in a troy bilt tuffy tiller with 4 hp Briggs. The usual, won't start and only runs on starter fluid. So i toss the carb in the ultrasonic and then installed new fuel pump diaphragm and tank gasket. Aaaaaaaand the same problem. Seems the fuel cup never filled. Changed the spring...

Pulled this out of the barn. 20 years ago i used to mow with this. Just going to set it out in front of the shop as yard art now.

See ya'll

Just spent the day bringing this very neglected 1978 Power King back to life. All the wiring butchered. Rewired entire tractor plus all the stuff that is supposed to turn, slide or move that doesn't.

JD Z245. This is one season on these blades. Guy lives on a farm. I just finished scraping still wet grass from last season out od the deck. It was packed so bad the grass was down to the blades. Had to use a pry bar to get most of it out.

The future of mowing.

Can't imagine why. Maybe the chunk of wood stuck in the engine pulley?

Not sure if that will buff out. Chonda generator

The engine is welded to the frame from the factory. It is 40+ years old and still running. I guess they weren't wrong.

Was at my JD dealer i get parts from today. Parts guy told me instead of 2 days for parts they are lucky to get them in 2 weeks and sometimes 3. Their commercial customers and having fits he said.

Speaks for itself

Customer states. It stopped moving. Hmmmm. Belt maybe?

Stens sells both of these head gaskets and they have the same dimensions. Looking for someone smarter than me. Shouldn't be that hard. Are they interchangeable? Does one supersede the other? Different year model engines? The 465-043 is like the old L head engine gaskets. Looks like it would be...

I must be lucky. I just got more head gaskets in my stend order today

JASO FB. OMG will probably blow up anything i put it in.

Link to a utube vid of the type of bowling machine i worked on in high school. My uncle owned a small bowling alley and i worked there all 4 years of high school. When i was 14 my uncle drove me up to Norwalk Ohio where the AMF school was and paid the hotel bill and gave me money to eat on and...

Time for some hot wings and a new big screen TV (In my best Larry the cable guy voice) Maybe a case of 10w30 too.

Had a tough one in the shop this week. Mid '90s White/MTD rider. Blade electric clutch won't engage. Zip tie failed and headlight wiring fell against muffler and burned it up. One of fhe ground connections for the clutch circuit goes through the headlight wiring. Clutch uses 2 relays for a hold...

Got up Thursday morning to a half inch of muddy water in the finished basement. The hole in the pipe from the well leaked enough water to come up under the window well and push about 50 gallons of muddy water through the window. Only down 4 1/2 feet. Luckily neighbor has a backhoe. Got if fixed...

A guy calls me a couple days ago and asks if i can come look at his 1954 Ford 901 tractor. He had a tractor dealer send out a guy to do a full tuneup on the tractor. He said the guy has worked on it for 3 days trying to get the ignition to work. No spark after new plugs, wires, cap and rotor...

Needed a new compression tester for bigger engines and auto engines. After a little research i picked up the Innova 3612. I specifically chose this one because it has the Schrader valve at tbe very end of the spark plug adapter. Like my small engine compression tester Using both of these in the...