When you ask a question and don't like the answer, why get mad at those that answer you. You know it is illegal to alter safety features, but still get mad at those of us when we won't help you do something illegal. We are not 13 either and have learned (sometimes the hard way) that you have to play within the rules, even if we don't like or agree with them. As I said earlier, no reputable tech will tell you how, especially here where no one even knows who you are. We have to protect ourselves, and you may not believe this, but it is not that hard to identify most members.
Hate to say this, but all the good techs are not going the tell you how to change, bypass, or alter any safety devices. It is against the law for us to do so. Just to let you know that if you take it in to a reputable repair shop for service, they will remove any alteration and put it back in as manufactured condition, at your expense.
When you see changes to any safety devises, you must inform the customer that he has to make one of two choises, either he will take the unit somewhere else or you get everything back to manufactured order and work on their unit. Even if is just a tune-up or blade sharpening. It also has to do with your liability coverage, where they spell out the rules very carefully. Even asking the to sign waivers does not hold up in ground in this day and age. CYA, is it worth your livelihood if you are in this business???
Maybe my last post wasn't clear. Our customer has to make a choice, either go some place else or have the alterations outback before we do any work on their unit. I know there are people who will repair altered units, but not us. You and I are working with a totally different customer base and mentality. I deal with people who have no idea how their equipment works and proper maintainance. That's one reason we have to do it this way.
Im with tom on this, i made my mower unsafe for a reason why would i want some stupid repair shop make my mower safe again and overcharge me for it... i do my own work and my own maintnace. Ive been to a lawn mower shop 4 times and that was to buy a coil that had to be order, go pick it up and the same for 2head gaskets i had to buy..
But after i got overcharged for the coil i bought i wont go back to a repair shop i buy my parts onlne.. another reason i do my own maintnence is i ask a them at the repair shop what the torque specs were fpr my head bolts and they told me "oh we dont torque them down we just crank them on with an impact"
Well whether head bolts on a mower need to be torque down or not i know you shouldnt use an impact on them.. and im not talking about some little repair shop in an barn im talking about one thats been here for years, there dealers to.
But anyways we stop this thread cause i figured it out, i had to start cutting wires on my mower to figure it out cause no one would tell me how to do it...