Recent content by DaveTN

Just curious what color spark is at beginning cold and when it’s hot and quits. Does it start to cut out and miss or lose power and die all at once?

Welcome to the LMF! It’s been fun for me tinkering and working on things since I was a kid. I’m a dabbling Thespian as well, lived in Hollywood back in late 70’s and mid 80’s. “To Beat the mower with a hammer or not to Beat, That is the Question!”

That’s right, good point. That blade acts like a second flywheel to help smooth out the rotations.

Or could be a partially crimped flywheel key throwing off the timing causing kick back. Noticeable after you hit something like a root etc. It’ll run but pull the skin off your fingers when it kicks trying to start it.

I keep saying I’m thru w/ working on mowers etc., but I got a call from a senior friend just up the road. Says his Bolens Single cyl 14.5 BS just quit. I went up do a few checks, valve clearance, spark, but thought I‘d turn it over by hand. Low and Behold NO compression. He has 2 identical...

Dang it! All I’m seeing in my Diagnostic Crystal Ball is some homely looking girl from Kansas clicking her heels and crying about trying to get her mower started back home and the grass is higher than a wheat field…

I studied film production in Los Angeles and know very well what you say. Some of these videos on you tube is like a beginning film student going out with no pre planning and points the camera here and there and calls it a movie made on a weekend! Worse yet a tourist filming here and there...

I’ve got this senior friend who is a magician! He will ask me to come over and repair his riding mower. He admits he knows very little about mowers. But when I start to diagnose and repair it, he suddenly turns into a genius mechanic and tells me what I need to do to fix it! His wife will...

Why not use Steel Push Rods instead of Aluminum ones? That might do the trick after you check and adjust the valve guides.

They just closed Bull Run Steam Coal-fired plant about 4 miles away. Had been online since I was a kid back in the 5Os. How are they going to fast charge all these electric cars that don’t explode and burn first? I saw a u tube about a fairly new white elec suv type auto that the battery blew...

LMAO at Shaved Monkeys! Yep I’ve seen a bunch of those UNSHAVED APES too, especially down South where I live. Thanks for a great visual laugh. That Taryl guy looks like one but he’s a PhD on small engines. And more than a few aren’t shaved. I could use a Bigfoot shaved or not to help me pick...

Welcome to the LMF. Lots to learn and share on here.

I dragged it home back in Nov., all 1600 lbs of it with 2 flat rear tires. Hydraulics out brake cables rusted up but managed to free one up on driver's side left. Got enough air in the rear tires and the main drive wheel tires to move it via come-along winch onto a trailer. Hydraulic filter...

Hi Red and thanks Rivets. I just dragged home a freebie 325D circa mid 90s Groundsmaster. I think it weighed about 1600 lbs. Previous owner got it from a local golfcourse but it ran. When unloading it the mower fell & screw-on hydro filter snapped and there she sat by the shed for several...

Hi and Welcome to the LMF! I’ve never seen a c clip on a c rod and yes if it had one it would be an accident looking for a place to happen. It’s amazing to me these cheap built Troy-Bilt, Craftsman type blowers and weed eaters stay running as long as they do. And yes I’ve noticed some slop in...