Got some work done yesterday and today. This green Bolens had a badly bent handle, would not shut off when running, one of the rear wheels was cocked funny, no air filter and the self propelled feature is not working. I replaced the handle with a spare, repaired the blade brake assemble with a parts Quantum, re-aligned the rear wheel's adjuster and tightened it properly and as for the self propelled feature, it's missing parts and would cost more than it's worth to get it working. The deck is decent so that's a plus.
This one I'v ebeen sitting on for a long time. It's one of the "troublesome Tecumseh's" that I had a grudge against. I had a spare Tecumseh with a ruined block and shroud (last owner drilled out some holed, used large metal screws in place of bolts, shroud holes torn out, just a mess to consider fixing, best for parts!) The spare happened to have a primer that still worked, so I transferred the entire assembly from manifold to air cleaner. Primed it, pulled it and it came to life. This one has a solid deck with only paint peel, no real rust and the whels are all in great shape. Cleaned up nice well too, it was very dusty and dirty.
This is one that was built to order. A co-worker wanted a basic side discharge with 6HP of more. Most tall deck mowers have long ago lost the discharge adapter, and the side discharge deck's I've picked up have mostly been short decks. Well, in the span of a few days I picked up 2 green Craftsman mowers, one 6HP that ran but with a rotten deck, and a 4.5 HP with an non functional primer but a nice deck. Swapped the running motor on and presto, a mower for the special order. I tried with the pressure washer to get rid of that spilled paint but in the end it's just cosmetic, doesn't harm anything.
It was a nice day, so for easy access and to re-organize a bit I dragged half of the shed's contents out.
Lots to work on yet, many not in the pictures, I think there were 6 left in the shed and a few on the deck under tarps.
