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I pulled this mower out of the trash last summer. Physically it looked like it's in decent shape. And it has a bag. I tried to start it for the first time today. I'm not actually repairing it yet, I'll do that this summer. But I had it out so I figured let me give a few spins and see what...

Are you sure? Did you look at the timing? I don't see how an engine could possibly run with that valve timing. It's doing an intake stroke then immediately an exhaust stroke, THEN with no possible air and fuel, it's doing a combustion and then a compression stroke. How can that possibly be...

Did you look at the video of the valve movement? That can't possibly be the correct. I don't see how an engine could ever run with the valves opening and closing in that order.

Not that I would ever do this for a yard vacuum engine, but does anyone make an aftermarket aluminum camshaft for these engines? There are many USED plastic camshafts for this engine on ebay for like $10 shipped. Given that you only put like 5 hours per year on these machine, I'm thinking...

I never would have guessed that these engines had PLASTIC camshafts. So it again sounds fairly plausible that I overheated it and I guess just severely deformed the plastic camshaft. I'll have to take everything apart to get a closer look. The movement seems so smooth, that my guess is that the...

I looked in the parts manual for this machine and according to that, the engine is a B&S/Craftsman engine Model number 126T02 Also according to that manual, not only are my 4 cycles in the wronger order, but the engine is pulling in through the muffler and pushing out through the intake. Also...

I *am* turning it clockwise so I am spinning it the right way. What I'm seeing in my own video is an intake down stroke followed immediately by an exhaust up stroke which makes no sense. And then a full up stroke and down stroke with both valves closed. It's like one of the valves got knocked...

When I made the second video above, with the valve movement, I was only paying attention to the opening and closing of the valves. And they do seem to be opening and closing fully. But the more I look at that video, the more confused I become about the timing of the valve compared to the...

I just had a thought. Magnets loose their magnatism if they get hot. I don't know how hot. But could I have overheated the engine enough that I demagnetized the magnets on the flywheels so the motor can't generate spark anymore? I could feel some force from it for sure but I don't know how much...

OK I finally had time to work on this again. Here's how it went: I took all the covers off and there were a lot of maple tree seeds shammed in all over the place. No mud or slop or typical nest stuff, just maple tree seeds. Its unclear if it was enough to cause cooling issues (maybe? maybe...

My first thought was the bag kill switch. But the engine is clearly spinning significantly free-er after it died so I don't think it's a kill switch issue. It is doing more than twice as many spins per start cord pull after the fact. Overheating sounds very plausible. There was junk all over...

Neighbor gave me a 10 year old Craftsman Yard Vac that was "used once then I never used it again". We have tons of large, old oak trees in this neighborhood that drop leaves the size of dinner plates, so a mulching yard vac is a very handy machine to have. Which is why I already have one! But...

I've been doing two fertilizer applications per season - one early in the spring, and one mid summer. I have a lawn spreader I purchased new that I use to apply. I also use it to spread insect killer twice a year and grass seed from time to time. So back to the fertilizer.... every time I...

That's a fair point. Although I am stopping even more often than that. Maybe twice as many start/stops per mowing vs back when I used to bag. Actually maybe even 3x as many start/stops. But definitely not 10x as many. Compared to when I started mulching, but before I started filming. I'd...

I have a husqvarna push mower with a honda engine. I've been changing the oil every spring since it was new, always with mobile 1 0w-30 oil. Fancy stuff for a lawn mower but its only 19 oz so I think I can swing it. And the machine runs perfect. Basically brand new even though it's 5 years old...

To clarify, I wasn't questioning the economics of whether shops should or shouldn't work on tiny motors. More just starting the fact that none or almost none do. I haven't found any that do. Thus the suggestion to bring it to a pro was a little silly. But given everything I've read, it sounds...

OK I just found this video on youtube and that seems to be right on the money: But the shot of the driver is very blurry, anyone know what it actually looks like? Is it just a socket?

I added a few pictures of the machine to the original post. I also downloaded it's owners manual but nothing about carb adjustments beyond the idle speed screw. I haven't had time to take the machine apart more and actually get to the carb and see what it has for other adjustment screws. Seems...

LOL Walk into an engine shop with a 2-cycle anything and see what happens. Here's a hint, "we don't work on those, throw it away and buy a new one" is what you get. Others say right on their website "NO LONGER SERVICE BLOWERS OR STRING TRIMMERS". I've never found any shop anywhere near me that...

It's very easy to work around this problem, it's more of an annoyance than a problem. But 5 years is my limit :D I agree that it sounds like some kind of fuel adjustment issue but beyond that, I don't know how to fix it so I just ignored it.

But this isn't a new problem its had since it got old. It's been like this since day one.

I have an otherwise pretty nice Husqvarna 2 cycle gas weed wacker. AKA Trimmer. It's about 5 years old. It has two problems, which I'm sure are the same problem. And it's had them since it was new. Rather than fighting with this thing every week, I really should just fix it. Symptom 1: It dies...

I have an HU700H pushmower. It's about 6 years old maybe. I bought it brand new. It's a rear wheel drive model with a honda motor. Overall it's an excellent mower but man, they weren't thinking when they designed the oil drain! It's so short, and at a 45° angle, so as you tip it over, the oil...

I have a very old (1994) Craftsman yard vacuum. I use it every fall to suck up/mulch piles of leaves, and once in a while I use it to chip sticks if I have a large branch that falls. Attached is a photo so you can see the engine configuration. Nothing unusual. So here is the symptom: Every time...

I have a husqvarna mower (HU700H) with a single lever to adjust the mower height. It has 8 positions. I'm wondering what each lever position corresponds to grass height. I looked through the manual but this is all it says about the lever: During the season, I mow on the tallest setting which...

I have an HU700H model with a honda motor. I don't suppose this motor has the ability to make power? The days get real short in the fall and I would love to bolt a headlight on this thing. On my snow blower, I replaced it's incandescent bulb with an LED and then added another LED spot light...

So after my fall spraying, it did look like it all died. But sadly, it's coming back this year. Maybe not as thick but it's pretty widespread still :( I guess this is just an ongoing battle forever. I'll spray for it every fall and hope for the best.

Yesterday was October 8th, squarely 'fall'. I gave all these weeds a good spraying of weed b gone. I made the mix a little stronger than suggested. 3oz per gallon instead of 2.5oz. A splash of dish soap to break the surface tension. And I sprayed pretty much everything, including some creeping...

My mother's lawnmower was smoking a little on startup. I mixed in some seafoam with her gas to try to clean it out. It no longer smokes but now it has this odd behavior. When you start it up and it's cold, it runs perfect. Then slowly, as it warms up, it starts pulsing. Not quite sputtering...

I have never replaced the belt. If belt is the "clutch", then that's nice and easy.

Update:I'm still spraying this stuff with weed-b-gone and it's not dying. Not even a little. This stuff kills creeping charlie so well but this wild violet seems completely un-affected by it. It is taking over my front lawn. Neither the fertilizer/weed preventer I put down in the spring or the...

What is the mechanism this mower uses for it's clutch? Mine is starting to slip a lot, even though the cable feels nice and tight. The mower is only about 4 years old and is in great shape. But I have some steep areas of my lawn that are probably hard on whatever form of clutch it uses. This...

Did you look at the photos? It looks nothing like that.

If the water only killed all of the above ground portion of the plants, but did not cook the bulbs, will they still die or will the try to quickly grow more greens?

Previous owner was a legit pedophile it turns out so I'm not saying anything to any kids in the neighborhood :P I did pour some boiling water on some bunches today and stuck flags in them, we'll see how that goes. I think it might actually work. I just hope enough heat got down there to kill...

About two weeks later and it's not going well. All that shit is still growing strong, NONE of it is dead. I'm going to have to dig it all up which is going to be it's own pain in the ass because it's so wide spread and I don't have any dirt to fill in the holes with yet.

Based on a 'false garlic' image search, that doesn't really look like what I have. It really looks like wild onion. So the other day, I hit each bunch with some weed b gone, which is supposed to kill wild onion. Anything that survives, I might just hit with boiling water. I read that's a good...

The other pictures are pictures of this very thing, fully grown. All it does is create a grass-looking bunch. No flowers. And it's super wide spread and getting more so every year. If I have to dig all these up, this is going to end up being more of a pain in the ass than the constant crabgrass...

I had a post about this last year but had no luck. I took some fresh pics as it's started growing already. Location: Massachusetts This weed/grass starts growing way before anything else. They grow in bunches that are very... firm. When you mow the lawn and the wheels run over clumps, they...

So I finally got my weed b gon and applied it. I mixed in some dish soap as suggested on many forum so it would spread better on the weed. Then when I was done, I looked at the bottle and realized they sent me the wrong stuff! It's crabgrass weed b gone, not the chickweed stuff. However it lists...

A year ago, it was suggested to me that boric acid mixed with water will kill my creeping charlie. #2 above is NOT creeping charlie I know, but a similar overall weed. I was spraying some boric acid anyway so I splashed some on these guys just to see what would happen. It was VERY harsh on...

Follow-up follow-up: Everything is back together properly and the machine is running great. The wire loop went where pictured in the previous post, and the two bolts were part of the airbox. Now we just need some snow.... wait I mean heat waves.

I'm not convinced it was the low speed circuit. While my original post said it ran fine under load, that was only after the first snow storm. As time went on, it would run poorly under load too. Still much better than when idle, but definitely not normal. Also I've already replaced the carb...

I'm having particular problems with two different weeds in my lawn. Thankfully in different areas so I can tackle each separately. It may be relevant, I am located in the Northeast, outside of Boston but in the suburbs. And we've had a very cold spring so it's still very early in our growing...

Update!! I finally got around to ordering a new carb. $10 shipped off ebay. I threw it on tonight and it immediately ran like it was brand new. Started right up, ran great, lowered the throttle to idle and it idle'd great. So as far as that main problem, mission accomplished! But I had a...

This year when I fired up my snow blower for the first time, the engine was a little funny. It surges kind like the choke is on, but it does this with no choke on. And under no load, if I put it on half choke, it kind of smoothes out. We just got a big storm so I was clearing my driveway and...

I know this is the "lawnmowerforum" but is it ok to talk about other power machines besides lawn mowers? If so, I want to upgrade the lighting on my snow blower. Like so many, it has that one incandescent light bulb that does almost nothing. First, I need to know how much "free electricity" I...

So I ended up just buying the zinc plated steel rod at home depot and turning it into an axle tonight. Went pretty well except my WD40 leaks about 10 parts out of the cap for every 1 part you spray out the straw. So I made a real big mess while drilling but oh well. It came out descent. These...

Craftsman model number 987.799601 Manual: https://c.searspartsdirect.com/mmh/pd_download/lis_pdf/OWNM/L0708441.pdf The best picture of the axle is actually on page 10. It's just a plain straight bar with pin holes on each end. The breakdown is on page 36. The part number for the axle is 1763391

I have a Craftsman yard vacuum. It actually works pretty well. But my yard is kind of rough and the thing has small wheels so I bought a pair of giant 12" wheels to help it roll smoother. They actually fit really well, AND turns out there's a second position I can put the axle in to help...