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    Does Scag offer a Spring promotion?

    FWIW No domestic mowers available down here period, JD & TORO are taking orders against their next shipment No walk behinds apart from store branded junk bought by big retailers direct from China. Local makers are having problems getting engines from both Briggs & Kawasaki so I expect they will...
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    Help me Identify!

    The key is to find who had a factory in Lawrenceberg And that was Murray Then if you searched "Brands made by Murray, you will find Wizard ( brand name of Western Auto ) From the engine serial number ( assuming it is original ) you can get the engine date and the mower that will be that year or...
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    Battery voltage

    No answer to this. The chemistry of plates & pastes varies and will give slightly different numbers A strait lead acid cell is 2.10 V it can be overcharged to 2.7 V A lead/silver cell is 2.2 V it can be overcharged to 2.75 V The idea of overcharging is to create a higher potential which slows...
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    Picked up a used BR 430 - wont start.

    Yes they sent the wrong kit or the kit was missing bits. Oregon make a limited number of them in the USA and of course Walbro & Zama make some kits in the USA But most of them come either as a kit from China or the individual parts come from China & are assembled into the packets in the USA...
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    Finding the regulator

    If the mower has a manual blade engagement then it will be fitted with a dual circuit alternator so the lights will be AC and get brighter as the revs increase because the voltage increases. If it has an electric clutch then it will have a regulator
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    Picked up a used BR 430 - wont start.

    With things like blowers the firs thing I do is a pressure test on the crankcase. They seem to eat crankshaft seals. If that is good then it is a spark tester on the plug & some carb cleaner down the plug hole IF it don't go bang then it is going to be an expensive repair. Got a crate full of...
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    Late 90's Wheelhorse 312-8 w/ Kohler M12 mods and repair questions

    It is not economical to make a 3,75Hp , 4Hp , 4,25 Hp, 4.5Hp, 4.75 Hp etc etc engines by changine mechanical parts Thus the use of a restrictor plate is a common method to get variable Hp in small increments to keep the mower customers happy THus above, all of them would be made from a 5Hp...
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    Kohler M series questions?

    There is an effective limit on the power you can get from a side valve engine. If you do a LOT of head work you can get the compression up to the low 8's but the killer is the inlet exhaust tracts. So you need to weld up the head and make a tangential inlet tract in the head with a corresponding...
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    How long until Christmas, again?

    Do a search on "Made in china" there are a lot of units sub $ 1000. Down side is you have to buy multiple units from most factories. The cheaper ones have smaller burn length, fewer cycle choices so you need to adjust the distance away all the time and like cheap welders, have a short duty cycle...
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    Can't stop B&S engine surging

    It means that the engine is not getting enough fuel to maintain a constant speed . Try it again with the old carb/ Also try fresh fuel Oddly enough that O ring does not leak all that much but it won't hurt to replace it .
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    Push lawn mower losing power with blade.

    Then the governor is adjusted backwards. When you put a load on the engine & it slows down the governor should relax and allow the throttle to open further So when you have the blade on where is the throttle butterfly on the carb, open fully or closed ? Without the blade it will happily run at...
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    Swapping Hustler decks

    If the tension arm is on an adjustable bolt then it will just be a matter to tightening it If the tension arm spring goes between 2 fixed points then you will need a shorter belt . The way to verify if there are no major changes needed is to go to a web site and download the parts manuals for...
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    Late 90's Wheelhorse 312-8 w/ Kohler M12 mods and repair questions

    Max Hp means nothing when it comes to doing work Torque is what you need and usually it is around 2,900rpm to 3,300 rpm. making it go faster will just burn more fuel Exhaust studs area PIA to do in situ As that is a side valve the stud holes would usually be blind but there is no chance of...
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    746-0879 For MTD Tiller

    Welding cables that are under load rarely works for very long. If you are going to make a go of this you really need to find a control cable maker. I have not fitted a genuine cable to anything ever. If I can't make it with the gear I have here then it is off to Conwire to get them to make me a...
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    Inconsistent 330000 exhaust valve clearance specs in manuals

    Actually because the numbers are in .001" .005-.007 is actually .0045 to ,0075 because .0005 would be considered rounding error ( +/- 1/2 the measurement ) It is like saying .01" is the same as .010", something they tried to drum into the heads of the students in engineering drawing and one of...
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    Inconsistent 330000 exhaust valve clearance specs in manuals

    YES The actual spec is 0.006" +/- 0.001" But Joe public is considered to be too stupid so they get written as a range. To squeeze that extra season or two from some engine I have done inlets down to 0.0015" The gap is only there so that when the valve expands fully the rockers do not prevent it...
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    Inconsistent 330000 exhaust valve clearance specs in manuals

    Does not matter Get 100 experienced mechanics to set a 0.005" gap and you will get 101 different gaps. This experiment has been done thousands of times where a gap is set with feelers then checked with a dial gauge
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    Push lawn mower losing power with blade.

    In image 091732 you can clearly see where the throttle cable was originally clamped to the throttle arm , about 1/4" from the free end Higher up the throttle stop has been bent back and is not touching the throttle high speed adjusting bolt . The triangle tab near the bolt ( top right ) should...
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    Push lawn mower losing power with blade.

    Did you adjust the governor ? IF so you have done it backwards ? Or you have hooked the carb up wrong Photos would help
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    Zama carburetor identification

    Don't know the actual size, and don't bother to try & memorise it because some makers use different size OD's And yes the intake is a smaller diameter and thicker walled tube to prevent it collapsing The return line is thicker id and thinner wall
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    Message for Briggs and Stratton:

    I am also an independent repair shop and believe you me no lover of B & S or the engines they make. In my post I did mention a likely scenario , there are others. I have been playing with engines since I was 12 and playing with motorcycles in particular for 55 years. This includes things like...
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    Message for Briggs and Stratton:

    The only way you get metal transfer is not having oil between the two surfaces This causes excessive heat which can stretch a bolt making it look like the bolt was loose from the start Now if the bearing is on a pressure fed crank then you can get metal to metal contact but it would be very rare...
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    Drive Belt for Hustler Sport / 42"

    The deck belt is covered, the drive bet is not The drive belt is always running The deck belt turns on & off with the PTO clutch. Slipping when starting is not necessary nor desired, that is the job of the tension spring Slipping when the blade hit an immovable object in the lawn is. Ideally...
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    Zama carburetor identification

    And while you are buying parts. some new fuel lines are in order. Pulling them out so the tank can seal agains a new place is a very temporary fix . There is a Stihl ( I think ) single hole fuel tank grommet that I use a lot to get a better seal . Not totally sure of the part number as I bought...
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    Drive Belt for Hustler Sport / 42"

    Double on what Star has said, Covered belts are only really needed for clutching operations where you want the belt to slip Rubber gets sticky when hot Put your hand on one of your car tyres when you have driven more the 10 miles and feel how sticky it gets ZTR's that have 2 motor pumps have a...
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    Rebuilt Intek 20 OHV 31P977 won't start

    The usual trouble shooting when there is a spark, the timing key looks good, the rockers are moving as they should, there is compression & the engine does not respond to fuel down the plug hole is to rotate the engine with a pencil down the plug hole and mark the spot where valves open & close...
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    16HP Vanguard valve adjustment

    FYI When I post a reply I try to make it as general as possible to cover all bases for the OP and in particular for latter readers looking for answers to similar symptoms. The OP can look at it & decide which is relevant and what can be dissregarded . What I omitted was water but I hope most can...
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    16HP Vanguard valve adjustment

    Pull the breather line off the air box Stops smoking = faulty breather or excessive blow by or over full crankcase. hold a piece of cling wrap loosly over the end of the tube It should blow then go limp then blow. You can feel it better if you put your tounge over the end of the tube or a damp...
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    16HP Vanguard valve adjustment

    White smoke = oil of some form Too much snake oil ( seafoam if your like ) Wd 40 or similar Over full sump Take your pick
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    Blade sharpening service.

    One of the bad things about the computer age is the demise of the Yellow Pages. Back then it was easy to look up "reel mower bade sharpening" in the index then find the page with all of them listed. Now days we have very flawed search engines where no matter what you search for, the results...
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    oil filter cross reference

    Never had a Loncin apart so no comment about what is inside . However what I will say is one of the big problems with design that prevents advancement is pig ignorant materials bigatory from people with no understanding of materials technology. If you look at technical publications from the...
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    torque settings for MDT OVH engine reassembly ?

    Tension looks reasonable what size are the fasteners ? generally the bigger the fastener the greater the torque .
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    won't start or turn over when hot

    check your oil level It could have a low oil cut out so it won't start if the oil is low. So from cold when all the oil is in the sump the switch is not active but when you have ben running for a while and all the oil is dispersed through the engine, the oil level drops just enough for the...
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    Manual

    In the computer age and with very tight profit margins very few companies do any hard copy other than the operators manual. Even then most Cheap Chinese products don't even do that , All they do is put a couple of stickers on the product with a QR code on it so you can download the operators...
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    V Twin Not accelerating, runs terrible

    TDC on the Compression stroke I hope & not the exhaust stoke .
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    ech 250 blower flooding

    They do both. If the tank goes above the pop off pressure of the metering needle then the engine will flood out as fuel will be sprayed into the venturi under tank pressure. That is why you both pressure test & vacuum test a tank Most I have found draw in through the cap vent then blow out via...
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    ech 250 blower flooding

    Echos usually have both a vent in the fuel cap and a stand alone vent. The fuel system runs at a higher pressure than air pressure so if the vents are not working increased pressure inside the tank can cause the fuel to leak . The fuel lines can crack where they come out of the fuel tank
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    Honda Gcv 160 won’t start, popping flame out carb when using starting fluid

    Flames out of the carburettor is usually either a spark that is too far advanced or the inlet valve is not fully closed
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    John Deere X300 won't crank(hour meter won't even show up)

    Wanna know how many mowers have turned up at the gate with a new battery, new solenoid, new ignition & PTO switches but all they needed was the valve lash tightened up. While the manual may be expensive it is cheap in the long run & both you & I know that If not for the cost of replacing...
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    John Deere X300 won't crank(hour meter won't even show up)

    The solenoid starter & battery that you did not need is about twice the price of the Technical manual that you do need so go to the JD web page and buy one Find your wiring diagram and print it out as large as you can so it is easy to see in your workshop. The manual has step by step trouble...
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    It's starting already "IT'S A TRAP!!!!!!!!!!"

    Sort of reminds one of the joke that was going around in the 70's of a tree swing dosen't it. Did a warranty repair on a Victa 18" with a sprint engine on Friday ( replaced the primer ) and the 72 y/o owners could not believe how light & easy it was to push. It replaced a 22" SP of unknown...
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    spark plug

    CJ is a standard plug usually used with points RJ is a resistor plug usually used with Hall effect magneto triggers and a plain cap
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    It's starting already "IT'S A TRAP!!!!!!!!!!"

    Don't get caught out by the weird circumstances of 2020 Down here right now you can not buy a push mower for love or money apart from store branded Chinese junk. So funny enough I have sold a lot of used mower and fixed a lot of stuff that customers had left in the back of their sheds a decade...
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    Wont Start

    And wire brushing a standard soft iron magnet with a power brush actually reduces the strength of the magnet. Not a problem with the powder pressed rare earth magnets but you won't find them on a mower engine thats for sure. I appreciate that rust can reduce the effecive gap and that would...
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    MTD Yardwork mower kick back , is flywheel key damaged ?

    There is not much in he way of a flywheel on mower engines and they need the extra momentum of the blade to continue to rotate. A lot of push mowers will not start without the blades attached. The engines that have a blade clutch usually have a heavier flywheel to compensate for the lost...
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    How to rid the yard of moss

    If you are going to put a link into a reply, it should be relevent and cleary defined as a link Using the forum as a sneaky way to advertise is a no no You are welcome to advertise & I understand the fees are quite reasonable As for the problem of Moss, it is mostly between peoples ears who...
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    Wont Start

    The only place rust is a problem is on a joint that should be an electrical path because all metal oxides are insulators, both thermal & electrical . And as mentioned if the rust shorts out by bridging the gap. SO the problem was highly unlikely to be rust. If it was the coils would have some...
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    voltage regulator

    Not specific to your problem , but hope it will help you to understand what is happening. The only difference electrically between an electric motor and an alternator is the position of the magnets & coils to each other. So when turned off the alternator will try to become an electric motor...
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    Wont Start

    Rust on the magnet makes absolutely no difference what so ever. Some twerp who was asleep during science class at school made a video where they wire brushed it and from then on they all must be shinny clean The only time rust becomes a problem is when it gets thick enough to bridge the gap...
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    Wont Start

    GEt some carb cleaner. Spay a SHORT shot down the plug hole & seel if the engine fires If it does not then pull the blower housing and check the timing key in the flywheel.
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    Another Surging Quandary

    You might like to read this https://outdoorpowerinfo.com/repairs/briggs_intek_single_ohv_nikki_carb.asp Note the carb shown actually does have an idle jet Also all of them use the idle jet air tube and the idle passage which sprays an air/fuel mix into the carb. In the bad old days there was a a...
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    Craftsman Mower Will not start with Auto Choke

    Contary to popular belief, you use both the idle and the main jet during starting unless there are check valves to turn them on & off. In fact you use both jets all the time it is just at hgher revs it is 9% mainjet 5% idle jet If you think o don't use the idle jet, next time you get a carb with...
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    Another Surging Quandary

    Your low speed jet is clogged Some times an ultrasound will clean it up It is up inside the carb and difficult to get at he main jet is of course inside the plastic intermediate housing Did you get the right one? There are a few of them and they all look very much the same.
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    Loncin LC1P91F compatible oil filter

    You will find that 3/4 - 16 and M20 x 1.5 are so close and the threads are so loosely cut you would be hard put to measure the difference. I have been using the briggs short to replace the citron CV2 ( metric ) filter fitted to my Pomie bikes for decades, you just over tighten them a bit. The...
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    Loncin LC1P91F compatible oil filter

    I seriously doubt that Hendersons have any in stock. They are one of the on line retailers who have no sock & order parts in after you have paid. Allmower Spares have the "Ships in 2 to 3 days tag on it and the RGS number so they have none & neither do RGS Mower parts plus are the same DMC at...
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    Loncin LC1P91F compatible oil filter

    Both Roy Gripskie & Sons plus Stens do Loncin filters RGS original & Stens OEM Neither of them have any stock at present ,I have 5 on backorder for the brand new engines I have fitted. The thread is 3/4 -16 NPTP which is the same as nearly all of the other mower filters All mower filters are...
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    Craftsman Mower Will not start with Auto Choke

    Double up on what Rivets said. Tip cleaners are FILES and remove brass from the jet making it bigger Don't know where the idea of using them as jet cleaners came from , seemed to get legs about 5 years ago when EVILPAY was awash with tip cleaners , rebadged as jet cleaners . The U_BOOB videos...
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    TORQUE RANGE FOR BLADE DISC RETAINING BOLT TO HONDA GVX160 MOTOR SHAFT

    Tow behind slasher ( bush hog if you like ) blades should be loose enough so you can easily move them back by hand but tight enough that when the disc stops spinning the blades are either still at right angles to the disc or just slightly forward. If they do a couple of revolutions all by...
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    TORQUE RANGE FOR BLADE DISC RETAINING BOLT TO HONDA GVX160 MOTOR SHAFT

    We have ben using swing back blades since 1948 the first domestic rotaries down here all had swing backs and have remained doing so ever since. Honda walk behind models for Australia & Europe also use swing back blades . All of the slashers (rough cut to some ) available down here except the...
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    TORQUE RANGE FOR BLADE DISC RETAINING BOLT TO HONDA GVX160 MOTOR SHAFT

    Sure it has a 3 blade disc & not a 4 blade ? In OZ they are either 2 blades or 4 blades If the blade bolts are 10mm with a flat machined in one side then they go 25 to 39 ft lbs or 30 to 40 Nm If you have the single 10 mm bolt on the disc it is 55 Nm or 40 ft lbs OR flatten the spring washer...
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    General Carb Question...

    Get your caipers out & measure the inlet opening then measure the outlet. Guess which one is smaller ? Usual method of working out which gasket goes where. The one with the smaller hole goes on the engine side
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    New Leftover 2020 Hustler SD 48" Mower

    And the 49" is probably measures at the bottom of the deck But the chute is on the top of the deck. The chute has 4" sides and is mounted one inch back from edge of the deck so when vertical it adds 2" to the total width Got a customer with a Z Master who forgot about the chute so he took it off...
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    Honda fans, look what people throw away

    The previous owner of the repair run moved to a costal village near the National Capital. Just about all of the beach side properties are owned by public servants on healthy salaries and are weekenders . He noticed every Monday morning, a lot of mowers , trimmers & blowers siting on the curb. It...
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    General Carb Question...

    ell if you have worked on that many mowers you should know the problem with one will not necessarily be same as the problem with the next even when they have the same symptoms. If you are going to do this long term the best thing to do is keep a known good carb of each type so you can quickly...
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    New Leftover 2020 Hustler SD 48" Mower

    If you are going to push it in then you must do it backwards. If for no other reason, beside it being easier that way, the caster wheels need to be turned 180 deg before it can be moved in the opposite direction.
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    New Leftover 2020 Hustler SD 48" Mower

    As Star said very few 48" decks will be 50" or less . The blades have around 1/2" clearance so you are up to 49" INTERNALLY Then the 2 sides of 1/4" to 3/16" thick steel adds another 1/2" Most decks have a rubbing strip on the left side so there is another 1/2" and hey we are now up to 50" Then...
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    New Leftover 2020 Hustler SD 48" Mower

    Nothing to help you decide but the symptoms you describe are consistent with a blown head gasket Not a difficult nor expensive fix if caught reasonably early before the hot gasses undercut the head or block.
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    Funny picture thread

    Mower parts that my wholesalers do not stock are a big mix. If I can get wholesale or a better price for equivalent quality then parts get sourced from there. The closest franchise mower shop does the same thing with parts for me, charging me 20% more than his retail customers so I don't buy...
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    Funny picture thread

    Much like Chinese factories, Walmart are destroying the USA economy. However it will not last forever because on line retail will eventually destroy them But when packing boxes at Amazon becomes the only job left things will get very uncomfortable. BEing a small independent trader I shop at...
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    T23 kohler Air intake on 23 hp motor

    The Air Horn is a Walker part, not a Kohler part Walker have just about all of their parts manuals online as a free downoad. But you will need all of the information off the ID tag because they do change things mid season, some times more than once.
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    16HP Vanguard valve adjustment

    The only other way to do it is with 2 individual kill wires wired through 2 relays with all of the safety switches acting as the triggers for the relays . The kill wires pick up signals from the opposite coils so you either have diodes to clamp the ripples or keep the two wires separate till...
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    Much needed maintenance

    Nope, not good enough it has to be a live one. I hate cats but the worksop is in a corner of 1000 acres of mainly pasture so in good seasons there wan no stopping thoce !#** field mice. Too light to spring most traps and it was a contest I was loosing big time Got a free cat from the local vet...
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    16HP Vanguard valve adjustment

    Just replace the sub loom it is only a couple of bucks Or if money is tight replace both diodes A 6 pack is about $ 2 I just got my 100 pack for $ 15 Aus Normally I would not bother because by the time I cut out the old ones, crimp in the new ons , cover them with 2 layers of heat shrink the...
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    Transaxle assembly replacement for ZT Elite 60, fair price estimate

    Both sides at once will have a higher labour rate than one side only but not double the one side price .
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    PP4620AVX

    The usual reason why you forget when you put some thing right now is your mind was fully occupied with some thing else . That is why the addressing where you put them works and why it works best if you vocalize it . This assuming that your short term memory is in fact funtioning. It is a...
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    General Carb Question...

    And of course there are 3 different primer which is why we keep asking WHAT THE BLOODY HELL ARE YOU PLAYING WITH > 1) squirts fuel directly into the carb 2) pumps fuel into the float bowl to overfill it 3) pumps air into the float chamber to make the float open & overfill the bowl
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    PP4620AVX

    Not a Guru, just standing on the shoulders of others. Just about everything I have posted I have learned for some one else and have found they worked . Yes I sat for hours watching Taryl & Donny Boy from video no 1 all the way through to where they were Then there was Joe Pace for cube carbs...
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    Smaller Chainsaw rec?

    Unless you are intending jugleing the saws , just get a short bar for the lightest one A 10 or 12 inch bar will fit on any of them, the only sort of snag is it will be engine heavy so a greater tendency for kick back.
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    PP4620AVX

    PT, Much like you I came here to LEARN about the stuff I have no idea about. Initally it was just to acquire as many manuals & parts books as I could get. Down here there are no hand held factories & only one ride on factory so everything here that has an old Aussie factory name is rebadged...
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    PP4620AVX

    Like the others I alway add a couple of hours to a "box of bits " repair In many cases the customer either takes their box of junk & walks away or tells me I can have it & walks away . This is fine by me, I don't need headaches and the nearest other shop will not take in a box of bits repair...
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    10 acres per week, $5k budget

    It is also worth remembering that most commercial operators actually do regular maintenance on their mowers . So a teamster selling a mower with 15,000 hours would be a better buy than the same mower from a private owner with 1/3 of those hours. Even worse are 3rd hand machines. What is a...
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    hannay reel

    The wiring is not particularly well supported , particularly the bits under the lap bars. Apart from a terminal fracturing as Star has mentioned I have come across a lot more ZTR's where the wire has broken at the crimp than I do on tractor style mowers. And these are buggers cause they work...
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    hannay reel

    In the back of the owners manual is the wiring diagram Get a magnifying glass and look at the back of the key switch which should have the same letters cast into the base or stamped into the pins For starting all of them are connected together I like to test these mowers by using short jumper...
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    Funny picture thread

    Yep it s a big problem when you are living alone Down here they run a daily check system where volunteers send emails or text messages to single people with no family If no response within 24 hrs they send in the parramedics. There is another registered neighbours system as well where neighbours...
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    Woo Hoo, I got got stim-U-lated

    I was technically bankrupt in 2002 Then legislated out of business in 2006 So gave up any idea of a wealthy idle future So it will be work till the grave for this little black duck Which ain't all that bad cause back when I was 16 I wanted to leave school & become a mechanic. So I am sort of...
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    Woo Hoo, I got got stim-U-lated

    The problem with that Tom is almost all of your hard goods are just Chinese hard goods rebadged & sold internally. Even the stuff that is "made in America" is generally fabricated from parts & asemblies that originate in China Again this is intentional because once a factory closes down in a...
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    Woo Hoo, I got got stim-U-lated

    The USA has been technically bankrupt since the Vietnam war That was the reason for floating the US $ and dropping the currency gold standard. The USA no longer had enough gold to cover the debt. And the debt has gotten bigger ever since. From what I can see happening Russia & China are...
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    Woo Hoo, I got got stim-U-lated

    Enjoy it while you can because you will end up paying back 10 fold. We have really good packages down here However like 60% of small business I don't qualify because my annual turn over is too low. But when they go into payback mode I bet it won't be .
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    Torque specification

    Except accurate torque wrenches ( deflecting bar ) are marked in 5 unit increments So using an inch pound torque wrench will be closer to the specified torque then trying to set a foot lb torque wrench. And note I used the word accurate I know you can go out & buy a spring loaded torque wrench...
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    Finally! an easier way to tighten spark plugs and drain plugs!

    A match sick pushed into a lock then broken off will do a similar thing And it definately was not me sir I don't smoke .
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    B&S 21Hp Battery Charging Issue

    Thank you Star My typo has been corrected
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    B&S 21Hp Battery Charging Issue

    FWIW and i ain't much, this is what Greenfields call a wiring diagram for your mower . As I was trying to tell you, only 1 wire from the stator is connected, the red wire, which changes colour to orange at the engine plug then goes to the key switch and from the key switch back to the solenoid...
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    B&S 21Hp Battery Charging Issue

    Before you do, what type of PTO has it got ? manual or electric ? The electric blade clutch draws 2.5 A so the 3A stator is never going to keep up. The Fastcut singles started with 11Hp 25 series engines and ended with 24Hp 33 series so it could be an original engine . Greenfields did not go...
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    B&S 21Hp Battery Charging Issue

    here should be a wiring diagram in he back of the owners manual. They used o be available on line but no sure now that Cox have taken over Greenfields Which model do you have ? Got a couple of customers still running 8-24's with the old steel pan seats. Buggers to mow with cause you slide back &...
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    B&S 21Hp Battery Charging Issue

    The RED wire from the stator goes through the diode and connect=s to the battery to recharge it The black wire goes through the white plug then into the white wire to the engine plug and there is nothing connected to it so don't worry about it . I have no ida what it is reading unless as...
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    B&S 21Hp Battery Charging Issue

    Congratulation on your purchase of mowers Your numbers are meaningless and obviously wrong I would guess you are using an auto ranging multimeter and what you are seeing is millivolts or microvolts Set it to Ω and test the red wire at the plug and about 1" back from the plug. There should be a...
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    General Carb Question...

    The one nearest the air filer, assuming hat they have one and are not primer start as this is a generic question We seem to be getting worse carbs down here as the failure rate would be closer to 50% So perhaps all of the returns in the USA end up on Evilpay down here.
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    Won’t turn over

    Pull the trigger wire off the solenoid and check it for battery voltage with the controls set for starting and the key in the start position. If you have battery voltage on that wire, then either the ground on the solenoid is bad or the solenoid itself is bad. If not there then the cranking...
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    John Deere 112 Wont Go In To Gear

    "Fees right" does not cut the mustard unless you do a dozen of them a week. Otherwise you take it off & measure. Considering the age of the mower I would be amazed if all of the pivots are not flogged out oval. Also check the rear idler, if it does not swing freely tension on the secondary belt...
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    Goodbye 2020!

    Decades ago we got broken into and they took just about everything ( which wasn't much ) including the B & W TV As we were both working full time & studying part time we decided to leave the telly and get one of them new fang dangle colour ones a bit latter. Well it was near 15 years latter when...
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    A good idea?

    Because I am Cheap I have been using oil bottles like that for decades, well before I became a mower mechanic. Square 5 gallon drums get 2" cut off one side , usually through the filling hole. The big bit becomes a leak proof storage box, with handle while the off cut becomes a drip tray or...
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    Much needed maintenance

    Or use cats for the reason we originally domesticated them. Keep one in the shed Feed it only in the shed in the morning and lock it in overnight That way it will be hungry all night & bored so nothing that moves in there will survive the night. Big feed in the morning and it will find a sunny...
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    Fuel additives 1 year later

    A reasonable experiment but again it is only valid for Taryl's climatic zone, Do the same thing on a mountain top in Montanna or a sea side resort in Florida and the results will be different. However the take away is "SNAKE OIL" always have been & always will be . Made for people too bone lazy...
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    Much needed maintenance

    You would be alarmed to find out just how many people have less than no idea. We have even had people call me an idiot because you can not have a ground circuit
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    Craftsman dyt4000 (dies when I release the brake)

    There is a safety circuit that runs from the magneto to the parking brake switch to the seat switch to ground So that he mower stops if you fall off there is a safety circuit that runs from the magneto through the PTO switch through the seat switch to ground So you can not get off and shove your...
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    Ironton Gen. DF400H-3410

    FWIW I like to use a hot air gun. Very heavy load applied almost instantly, And if the Hz drop to low it wont worry a resistace device
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    Z master 6000 spindles

    So it's a B 196,25" belt. I sub the Hustler 784207 belt for that one At 195" it is a little shorter but a lot cheaper at $ 110 Aus to my customers. When you get to these lengths +/- 2" makes SFA difference
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    John Deere JX90 front left wheel dropping out when raised? (the side height is adjusted). Please help soon

    From what I can see they are the same on every wheel Note that could be the Australian part number Also there were about 100 JX90's on the on line catalogue so you will need your serial number as well to make sure it is the right part. Also the bits that fell off are likely to be on the grass...
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    Who else does this?

    I get mine from China via EVILPAY. Funny enough they have all been good to date Down here a single genuine Dremel burr is $ 45. I get a pack of 10 from China for about $ 20 from a vendor that only sells tools . Same story as before check all of the "other items" till you find one who only sells...
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    oil filter cross reference

    Old testing machines did not have the auto punch to make a hole in the case. This stopped defects being returned to the good line for painting & despatch for what ever reason that might be .
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    Goodbye 2020!

    Good luck. I am the contact point for the local BSA club and this year I would have had near 100 wives ringing looking for projects that could never get finished & ridden , to get "im" out of my kitchen.
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    oil filter cross reference

    You compare filters with flow meters ,microscopes & electromagnetic filters & / or centrifuges . Which is why I now get wet pants laughing when some You-Fool video appears where the fool cuts a few filters apart and does a comparison with noting more that their blind eyes. The best you might...
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    Kawasaki fs730b. After 2 hours running.

    Sounds like a bad coil or ignition module However the first thing is to determine if it is fuel or ignition. Thus the instant it stops grab a can of carb spray & give a SHORT SHOT down the carb & crank the engine If it fires then you need to look at the fuel system and in particular the fuel...
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    10323 displacement?

    In a lawn mower , NO The exhaust is too short to get any meaningful resonanace happening and tuning would be so fine you would be working in 0.0001" incriments to tune it . In governed engine it would be very tricky to keep the engine within the powerband, particularly with a 4000 rpm ceiling .
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    John Deere JX90 front left wheel dropping out when raised? (the side height is adjusted). Please help soon

    The retaining clip and bush has fallen off . According to the JD web page it is part SAU10536 and there are 4 of them, one at each wheel held in by the bolt in photo 2 We don't get JD pushies down here but the usual reason for the front axle clip s / clamps falling out is running with out of...
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    Goodbye 2020!

    Not the best year down here either but I have a large proportion of my income from parts. Thus when every one was at home, digging out the old mowers from the back of the shed that they were going to fix up, 10 years ago, a lot came to me for free advice & naturally I sold them lots of parts...
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    oil filter cross reference

    FWIW there is 5/8th of SFA differance between the specs of all of the lawn mower filters which when you think about it should be no surprise. The major difference is the size of he can itself. Just about all of them will interchange The only real caveat on that is the thread which may be metric...
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    New EGO Z6 42" ZTR Mower

    And add to that the slow degrading of each battery so after charge, it will mow a little less & if you run one dead flat it might not recharge at all . Then those 2 acres are 2 acres of fairway quality lawn being cut 1/2 " not a house yard with tress , & sheds & garden beds & pools & pergolas...
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    HoHoHo

    What it is easy to overlook is bodies are not lawnmowers. The religious nutters maintain we are all made in the image of their particular diety so are there fore all the same & perfect . However unlike mowers no 2 people are identical, no 2 have identical diets , do the same exercises or have...
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