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re: Small engine repair - Can you do it?
Posted on 11/5/23 at 7:39 pm to OKTiger83
Posted on 11/5/23 at 7:39 pm to OKTiger83
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Learned a lot of useful day to day things in high-school FFA, and this was one of them
Same here, we worked on lawn mower/snow blower engines for a few weeks, most of them Briggs & Stratton.
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Posted on 11/5/23 at 7:39 pm to armsdealer
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stopped cleaning small carbs... just replace them. The time is worth extra couple of bucks... if you are cleaning them right anyhow.
< $20 on Amazon so yeah just get a new one.
Posted on 11/5/23 at 7:50 pm to Elblancodiablo
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Must suck to grow up without any male role models
Lol at ur stupid assumption.. No, actually my Dad just stressed education over manual labor .
Posted on 11/5/23 at 7:55 pm to BK Lounge
This thread is a pretty weird flex. Unfortunately most consumer goods these days are “disposable”. Labor is expensive and the skill sets are not as common.
I just had an issue with my zero turn Kawasaki motor. All the shops and people I talked to said it was not worth repairing. The diagnostics and tear down would cost almost as much as a new one.
I bought a new one, but tore down the old one myself to rebuild. Just did a full rebuild on it and planning to sell it afterward. YouTube and Google for the manuals was definitely a friend. Small engines have some nuances to them and can certainly be frustrating. But it was a fun little project and got to show my son the internals of an engine.
I just had an issue with my zero turn Kawasaki motor. All the shops and people I talked to said it was not worth repairing. The diagnostics and tear down would cost almost as much as a new one.
I bought a new one, but tore down the old one myself to rebuild. Just did a full rebuild on it and planning to sell it afterward. YouTube and Google for the manuals was definitely a friend. Small engines have some nuances to them and can certainly be frustrating. But it was a fun little project and got to show my son the internals of an engine.
Posted on 11/5/23 at 7:59 pm to BK Lounge
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Especially if you have other skills that allow you to make enough money to pay soembody else to do that shite .
Money has little if anything to do with it. It comes with the satisfaction of knowing you can do it and know it is done right the first time.
This post was edited on 11/5/23 at 8:01 pm
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:05 pm to BK Lounge
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Lol at ur stupid assumption.. No, actually my Dad just stressed education over manual labor .
I didn't realize it was an either/or proposition?
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:07 pm to theantiquetiger
Carbs are so cheap I usually just replace them. Ethanol gas kills Carbs.
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:09 pm to 0x15E
I get most of my yard equipment each Spring when young men can't start mowers, edgers or weedeaters. They dump them in the alleyway and I get practically new equipment.
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:16 pm to theantiquetiger
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Took about 45 mins and $30
Had the exact same thing happen to my mower last spring when I tried to crank it the first time. Repair guy charged me $80. 45 minutes of my time is worth more than $50.
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:20 pm to Jim Rockford
Ain't got no gas in it. Mmmh Hmmh
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:22 pm to theantiquetiger
It’s not that I don’t know it. It’s that I don’t have the time or patience
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:23 pm to theantiquetiger
Yes, our high school ag department had a competition to take one apart and put it back together. I want to say there was this one guy who was the fastest in the state, I don’t remember the time but it was really impressive.
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:23 pm to BK Lounge
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No, actually my Dad just stressed education over manual labor .
This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever read on the OT.
“Son, frick fixing the mower. We will buy a new one or get the dumb redneck to fix it. Just make sure you get your liberal arts degree!”
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:33 pm to Jim Rockford
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Had the exact same thing happen to my mower last spring when I tried to crank it the first time. Repair guy charged me $80. 45 minutes of my time is worth more than $50.
The rebuild on a carburetor takes 10 mins tops. The kit was $12. It takes me longer to change the blade on my edger.
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:41 pm to theantiquetiger
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My mower was $750 brand new 15 years ago. No way I’m getting another one because it was stalling and running badly. A lot of GenZ’s and Millennials would probably throw it away and just buy a new one.
As cheap as they are these days you could replace one every two years for almost decade for that price.
Why spend the time fixing a motor? Seems like something people with a lot of spare time do. Buy one cheap, run it into the ground with only minimal year to year maintenance and then buy a new one.
No brainer
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:48 pm to 0x15E
quote:doesn’t matter. Small engines are easy. And parts to fix are cheap.
But that’s not really a gotcha these days considering how cheap lawn mowers are to replace.
Even if it only 290 fir a new one you can fix fir 25 bucks. Plus it’s fun
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:54 pm to SECdragonmaster
quote:Saved hundreds of thousands with this-
Saved thousands with this.
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:57 pm to theantiquetiger
I got my 1969 VW Beetle running today. It hadn't been cranked since 2014 
Went on a very short test drive and it had zero brakes
My dad has a PHD in Mech Engineering and was a professor. He was all about educating me on how a gas engine works or most anything works and how to fix it. He was all about modifying and going fast. Our dust-buster was hopped up with high performance battery
Went on a very short test drive and it had zero brakes
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No, actually my Dad just stressed education over manual labor .
My dad has a PHD in Mech Engineering and was a professor. He was all about educating me on how a gas engine works or most anything works and how to fix it. He was all about modifying and going fast. Our dust-buster was hopped up with high performance battery
This post was edited on 11/5/23 at 9:30 pm
Posted on 11/5/23 at 10:19 pm to theantiquetiger
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theantiquetiger
You work at a plant?
Posted on 11/5/23 at 10:23 pm to SECdragonmaster
YouTube is the Chiltons of today
I can’t even fathom how much a YouTube channel has saved me in auto repair
And other repairs
I can’t even fathom how much a YouTube channel has saved me in auto repair
And other repairs
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