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Don't hit water meter cover with mower
Posted on 4/16/15 at 6:48 pm
Posted on 4/16/15 at 6:48 pm
So I hit the water meter cover by the street and mower shuts off. I took a pretty good chunk out of the hard rubber cover.
Fearing the worst I pulled the cord and it started. It shut down after about a minute, started up again but only ran for seconds.
Long story short sheared the flywheel key which luckily saved the internals.
I ended up cracking the flywheel when I tried to pull it.
I have an old mower and pulled its flywheel. Both engines are Briggs/Stratton however the broken one is from 6.75 engine and the other from a smaller engine not sure size.
Both flywheels are same diameter. Both have same number of ribs/fins. The old one looks about 1/8 inch taller.
You think they are interchangeable? Of course the obvious answer is try it and see!!
Just wondering if anybody knows that it will not work because of magneto/points or other reasons.
Thanks
Fearing the worst I pulled the cord and it started. It shut down after about a minute, started up again but only ran for seconds.
Long story short sheared the flywheel key which luckily saved the internals.
I ended up cracking the flywheel when I tried to pull it.
I have an old mower and pulled its flywheel. Both engines are Briggs/Stratton however the broken one is from 6.75 engine and the other from a smaller engine not sure size.
Both flywheels are same diameter. Both have same number of ribs/fins. The old one looks about 1/8 inch taller.
You think they are interchangeable? Of course the obvious answer is try it and see!!
Just wondering if anybody knows that it will not work because of magneto/points or other reasons.
Thanks
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Posted on 4/16/15 at 8:09 pm to roobedoo
As long as the magnet on flywheel is same size/location, should work I would think
Posted on 4/16/15 at 8:13 pm to roobedoo
I got to replace my pull rope and the self propelled belt. Once it stops raining of course.
Posted on 4/16/15 at 8:17 pm to bootlegger
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As long as the magnet on flywheel is same size/location, should work I would think
This. It could of been worse. My dear wife wiped out a new one hitting a root on a tree. Bent the shaft.
Posted on 4/16/15 at 8:24 pm to roobedoo
where do you live to be able to cut grass? looking at the weather forecast I might be able to get mine cut around wednesday.
Posted on 4/16/15 at 8:38 pm to roobedoo
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sheared the flywheel key which luckily saved the internals.
interesting...so the flywheel key is designed to shear so that the inertia of the flywheel doesn't twist the crank...ingenious, really...
Posted on 4/16/15 at 9:06 pm to Spankum
Huh. Come talk to me when you hit the gas meter with the RFM.
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Posted on 4/16/15 at 9:14 pm to roobedoo
Ok, I was going to cut my MILs yard the Saturday before Easter. I had the John Deere LA105, (Lowe's and Home Depot model) lawn tratcor on the trailer going up I-55 to Jackson. I got off the Interstate and look back...no mower. I dropped that bitch on I-55 going about 65 mph. I back tracked and found it in the median next to the barrier cables. Dude was already checking it out when I got back. The back axle/rear end was broken. I got in the seat, turned the key and it started. Son boy and I dragged it back on the trailer, got a good strap, (the other one broke) and took it home. Farm Bureau is gonna pay me $400 and I am going to try and fix the rear end. I should be able to replace it for that or so the old man that works on mowers I asked said. So I guess it's all relative, you got no mower and neither do I. Good luck. I bet that bitch looked pretty wild bouncing on the interstate and I wasn't even drinking.
Posted on 4/16/15 at 9:24 pm to Spankum
Yes, it really is a good design. I was thinking bent rods and valves but it is just a little rectangle piece of stock. It is like your timing belt. If it goes motor does not know how to run.
Posted on 4/16/15 at 9:47 pm to bpinson
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bpinson
holy hell, man!...I would love to have been within sight of that mower tumbling down the interstate....
don't feel too bad, I had a refrigerator fall out of my truck once...it slid down the road on the door at 60 miles per hour...
Posted on 4/16/15 at 9:52 pm to roobedoo
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It is like your timing belt. If it goes motor does not know how to run.
true, the timing is really controlled by the magnets in the flywheel, so when the magent is no longer positioned at the right spot on the flywheel relative to the crank, things go haywire...
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