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Depends on if the brakes are internal or external Follow the clutch & brake pedal under the mower On the left side the rod goes all the way down to the brake . The end of the rod is threaded with a spring that pushes against a pin which is used to adjust the brake . Warning here , you can not...

Trouble with big car moving trailers is they are hard to manouver in the hilly yards around here, you have to use loading ramps and I am pulling it with 2.4L LPG powered 4 cylinder Mitsubishi long wheel base van not a USA style 10L V8 Pick Up . Even with my fairly light set up there are times I...

Excellent now we are all reading from the same book we can all work together So you will need to get some sort of throttle cable to hook up to the control as Illengine mentioned back in post # 6 and Star showed in post # 9 The governor assembly virtually prevents the engine reving way too far as...

Interesting side note for me but we did not get Lawn Boys down here They tried a couple of times but they were a 100% market failure against the locally made mowers which were both cheaper & substantially better for local conditions. Back then we were a nett exporter of walk behinds , how things...

You mark the belt ( I use a white paint pen then run it through and check for cracking , splits , torn covers or any other defects You set the brake & remove the idlers Hold them in your fingers and spin the pulley looking for noises or notchy running , check the pulley flange for cracks ...

Trailer is a tilt trailer custom built for a 42" Cub Cadet 2000 series back in the 90's A customer of mine bought when we was made redundant and became a grass cutter ( now a full on lawn & garden maintenance operator ) It was widened to take the Great Dane so 44" is all the width I have to...

I do the same Just sold a 40 series B &S left over from a batch I bought in 2017 Gave a 3 year warranty on the engine on a back to base basis. Had to be like that because with a 58" deck I can not tow back here Customer was not sure if the 40 would be powerful to replace the 44 Checked back...

Any place that has metal to metal movement needs some sort of lubrication or the weaker part will wear. Now weather having the pivot worn oval is beneficial because you get freer and greater movement of the front cross member is a good idea or not will get argued amongst tech all day & all night...

One of the reasons why mowers bought off line or from big box stores are cheaper is because you get them in a crate so you have to do the predelivery work. While it does save the owner money , there are pitfalls as c1916 has found because if there is a problem then getting it rectified is a big...

Yes Fuzzy a ring will open out quite a long way without breaking However a very small amount of twist and it is all over . They are designed to get bigger & smaller so will happily do just that . using a ring expander does exactly that and you need a ver small amount expansion to get it over...

REad the whole thread. It is a brand new Vabguard and if not abuse will last for a very long time . However people do not understand that they are governed engines designed to run within a fixed rev range and not a automotive engine designed to be throttle controlled. Run them too slow and they...

Put 3 feeler gauges about .005" on the side of the piston then lube them so you can slide the ring over them slide the ring over the groove then pull them out 1 at a time while holding the ring in place .

Good work. In the 10 years now I have been running the business I don't think I have ever found one that showed any signs of being greased

Peak torque on these engines is usually around 3000 rpm The engines are balanced for 3600 rpm ( roughly ) and at speeds above 4000 rpm can shake very badly Connecting rods are weak and most will break when you try to run them above 5000 rpm. If you disconnect the governor , leave the governor...

Want to expand on a "power managed motor" Because a governed engine is a power managed engine as the throttle opens wider as more load is applied .

It is a chicken & egg thing Because these engines are made as cheaply as humanly possible ( cheap & nasty ) only Hondas have a fuel cut off tap Because carb overflows have to be internal you now are set up for a petrol hydro lock . A stronger starter will blow the head gasket & bend the con rod...

The single hardest & slowest thing to make on any hand held petrol engine is the carburettor. So supply of them is always a problem . Add to that different pollution laws allow the use of cheaper versions in some markets and then some markets demand adjustable jets that are illegal in just about...

I have always used kerrosene ( parrafin or lamp oil to some ) because it is thin as Rivets said, has good thermal qualities and is itself abrasive

No need for appologies Nothing here is compulsory. Sorry to hear you got the virus & hope you get a full recovery. Some of my customers took month to get over the first variant and some are still not 100% more than a year latter. Touch wood I have managed to avoid it so far but the way our...

Nothing I like more than getting something I have never seen before & working out why it failed then how to fix it . Then there are silly things I should have understood like the fuel pumps push fuel & air into the tank not suck fuel out of the tank as liquids push better than they pull ...

The wallabies around here are fairly tame. When we are cutting the kikui they will happily stand a few feet away & gorge on the fresh cut grass. When water is hard to come by they will come down & drink while I am in the yard. The Eastern Greys are a lot more weary of people so they will vanish...

If OEM solenoids are failing it is usually a sign of another problem I am yet to come across one that has failed for no external reason. The most common one is an out of tune engine so the owner cranks it till the battery goes flat ignoring the 30 seconds max printed in the owners manual the...

If it is only the clevis saddle ( part 102 ) they are a very easy part to make Some heavy walled tube, threaded internally & slotted at one end . Most engineering supply shops will carry a range of clevises in steel brass & zinc I would guess they make it out of plastic so it breaks rather than...

No mower cuts the height shown on the deck which is why a lot of makers mark them with letters Even walk behinds are subject to the density of the grass, the toughness of the grass and of course wear in the lift linkages & improper deck adjustments. Add to that unless the deck is dead level it...

BE very careful using rigid hones in 2 stroke cylinders as they are very easy to catch on the edge of the transfer ports which will usually smash the stones .

GF got it right back in post # 16 The deck cracked, it could have been cracked for years then Ken hit something that opened out the crack so he noticed it. Looks more like he got the deck hung on some thing to drag the back open and even that suggests the deck is heeling rather than being used...

That is exactly what I see as well So Ken needs to have the deck welded then have a good look at everything else to isolate the root cause to prevent it happening again. And note we both said to use a competent welder , ie a professional welding shop not the dealer's apprentice.

Not derogatory in any way shape or form, just blunt & direct . The deck has failed due to operator abuse not because it was bad from the start or was a bad design. There is no way to candy coat it and candy coating does no one any good. Hopefully Ken will be more aware of the way his mower is...

Not optimustic Right now I am trying to find a lift arm for a 2018 Victa VRX17542 ride on Victa Australia is owned by B & S Part is listed as NLA These were a problem from day one & have a service life of 3 to 5 years before the left arm fatigues & falls off . And the VRX17542 was replaced by...

Yes You always need to have the model & serial number with you when you buy JD parts as they do change things during a production run. If the belt is still pretty clean they might exchange it but do not be surprised if they won't .

Got a drinking buddy in transport & storeage ? ask him about logistical costs Tyres are all empty space and the most expensive thing to ship is empty space. Then there is warehousing, again very expensive because of the realestate rental mafia down here & idiot accountants who demand businesses...

Did you believe this or do you feel it was some BS to raise dealer confidence ?

Check the rocker cover The thin tin is easily deformed and then the rocker tap on the cover . Solution is to get some thick cork gasket material & cut a thicker gasket Continual taping on the cover cracks the rockers as Scrubby has already noted .

Firstly as others have said , but I will say it again The warranty covers defects in materials &/or assembly so it covers the steel failing , a weld failing, a weld not being there, missing parts or bracket welded in the wrong position All if these would manifest themselves in the first few...

YOUR HOME PAGE TAKES WAY TOO LONG TO DOWNLOAD. Home page should download instantly . After 2 minutes I gave up ( and went to one of your competitors ). NEVER EVER put video on a home page it should be a static image . Save those clips for inclusion on the individual page they depict . So home...

stabilizer or no stabalizer you can not stop fuel evaporating to leave a tarry residue that gums up the carb So it will be off with the carb & give it a thorough cleaning Then new fuel, new plug . Some times you can also get a build up in the fuel lines as as there is only a couple of inches of...

friend sells old magazine & newspaper adds on evilbay It took me nearly 5 years to convince him to buy prepaid mailing tubes in bulk from the post office then when he sells the adds to add the full retail price of the tubes to the sale . By doing this it guarranteed he would make $ 7 on every...

Got a DU deck with swing back blades Been waiting 2 months for blades & bolts I rather think the dealer is playing me as they were listed as being in stock, now they are pushed back to Feb . Too busy to do a ring round right now but will be doing it shortly. If no joy then I will make some...

A TV add can cost thousands which has to be recovered from selling the product Thus nothing advertised on TV excluseivly will be good value So go to a couple of big electrical retailers or even better small ones that do repairs They usually keep the better ones because if it does not work, they...

A radio interview mentioned that the last 3 fatal black snake bikes were all from people cleaning their drains Black snakes eat mainly other snakes, reptiles & amphibians so the often sit in drains waiting for dinner to pass by . Very few of the common "pests" are actually pests once you...

At a very rough guess because this is the type of thing we really need to see I would think you have hooked the throttle rod to the wrong hole as most have a push to open & a pull to open hole or you have transposed the choke & throttle controls should it not be an overide choke control .

There is a funny idea that kangaroos hop down George St ( main street in Sydney ) and you can not put a food down outdoors without treading on a snake . Our average snake bite rate is around 500 ( out of 35,000,000 population + ~ 10,000,000 tourists & guest workers ) From that 2 a year are...

Lifetime warranty = warranted till it breaks when it's life is over so the warranty expires . They are a con & always have been

If you have power to the solenoid in the start position & not in the run position then I would be looking at the ignition switch . Unfortunately that wiring diagram is not readable .

I am assuming you are making a joke , in which case I had a chuckle Snakes eat at best 1 mouse a day for week then find some where warm to lie & digest them for 3 or 4 days but most will take a single mouse then go off for 2 days to digest it because while they are digesting they are vunerable...

I pack the entire cavity with grease and where ever possible use a shielded bearing on the bottom where a 2 RS is specified. Push the bottom bearing in complete with spindle Fill the cavity with grease Remove both seals from the top bearing and fit it Wipe away the excess grease ( it goes into...

Usually they get fitted pointing backwards so they can be accessed with the deck fully assembled and still in the mower . This will of course depend upon what type of grease gun you have Ideally you would give them 1 stroke every month during the mowing season.

HAve not seen them down here yet My problem is field mice are very small and thus very light so did not trip any spring loaded trap no matter how far i ground the trigger back to the point they would spring if the front door closed hard. I found the tip over traps worked a lot better and they...

I do around $ 5000 pa with Stens and about the same with RGS . Although I am buying more & more direct from China because I can not price match the big retailers on much higher discounts than me . The trick it to buy via Made in China so you are dealing mostly with a factory directly. Just got...

When they are doing promos for "organic " produce I always like to ask the presenter What is an inorganic vegetable . The landlords father grows organic wheat and down here they are really strict with the certification & QC The has 10,000 acres of buffer paddocks where he grows grain crops but...

And unless you know what to look for you would just be wasting your time unless it was obvious like a spring or an anchoring shoulder that was too small . Like all those 1/2 witts that cut open oil filters with can openers .

Depends weather you are a retail customer or a dealer . Stens have always been good with me but I do buy direct from them So when I showed the rep, he replaced the defective parts but shortly latter we were advised that the part ( Honda gear change spring ) would not be available for x months...

You old softie Carrot seeds get stuck on strips of toilet paper with a flour & water glue that is made with worm wee . About 1 seed every 1/2" The rolls when sealed in airtight bags keep about 3 years so it is not a job you do every day Pop them in the crisper for a couple of days, weeks , soak...

Well your 2010 Husky is 3 times as well built as any 2022 husky you will buy. The quality of the Orange stuff has been going down hill at a rate of knotts to the point I now advise my customers never to buy any Husqvarna product or any of the clones that come out of their factories other than...

takes a very long while to to re-educate your tastes so you appreciate unsalted food. SWMBO had a father with a bad ticker & thus from birth almost has been brought up on a low salt diet. My dad was a labourer who sweated out salt all day so I was used to a high salt diet. Finding recipies we...

It depends upon what you have been conditioned to think " looks appertising " by the advertising agencies working for the cosmetically perfect food industry . Nearly half of all of the food that is grown is trashed because it does not look like what you have been conditioned the believe it...

LAzy meal 1 potatoe + 1 large onion in the microwave for 90 seconds Cut a deep cross in each one a slather with herbed butter ( I have about 10 different herbed butters in the fridge ) . Grew both the onion & the potatoe Microwaves cook by heating the internal moisture so what goes in needs to...

Have you told your rep ? While it is good to make others aware of the problem it is better to let them know so they can take actions to recall or replace

To date there has supposedly been 22 houses burned down due to faulty batteries / chargers on electric cars. If a can of fuel ignites you can put it out with a variety of extinguishers If a battery ignites you can not put it out so all you can do is try to drag it clear of the building Phones &...

Chips = potatoe cut into sliced lenght ways then rotated 90 deg and cut again Probably similar to your french fries but generally about 1/2" square where as french fries are usually about 1/4" square. Chicken portions are very cheap because they are factory processed for take away chains like...

Bought a cheap one 5 years ago for the workshop because it is the old farm house which had to be made "unliveable" so the stove was removed . I found it great and use it a lot . So I bought a better one for home with a rotissery basket as I am rather too fond of chips. First thing we noticed was...

Battery powered tools have their place The No 1 thing in their favour is convience , particular for stuff that is rarely used . However they are not the answer to CO2 pollution that they are marketed as and in fact over all pollution for battery power is significantly higher than petrol power...

When I did the months hand over from the previous owner I had little experience with cube carbs as I always tip the fuel out of my hand held devices and run them dry. Thus my 30 year old gear was working perfectly ( or so I thought ) so I had no reason to pull them apart. He showed me to clean...

As I have said a thousand times on this forum There are good mowers & there are bad mowers But the one that will work best for you is the RIGHT mower. And for you the right might come from the bad list. In your kitchen, most people have a knife block with up to a dozen different knives because...

Rusty, with all due respects, that is total rubbish and I really think you do not comprehend how these magnetos work or how the ignition is timed . For what you are saaying to be true then every coil would have to be mounted in exactly tha same position & every magnet would have to be in the...

When you blow through the fuel line do you hear your air bubbleing in the tank ?

Cube carbs are pressure vessels So "looks OK" does not cut the mustard They must really be pressure tested & vacuum tested The fuel tank & fuel cap and tank breather ( where fitted ) must also be tested. If you don't know what new looks & feels like then you can not make a visual assesment of...

I live in hope Yesterday I managed to get the last of Mondays call outs done On site wheel removal & tyre replacement that ended up taking 4 hours to get the rusted wheel off the rusted axel Today is banking & doctors appointments , Saturday is 4 more call outs from the week + 2 booked in for...

Can you blow back through the fuel line from the tank ? If not it is clogged and that is very common on old engines .

house mice will go for peanut butter, cheese and a whole pile of things Field mice will not go for this because peanuts are not part of their diet For field mice I have found the best bait is fresh baked bread / scones / piklets etc This is because their primary food is plant seeds They will...

Thanks for that While searching I kept on seeing refferals to a 6 page dealer service manual but like a lot of things on the www it sounded like urban myth Printed out the schematic A3 so I can red it in dim light so will go back with the good meter and some extra wires and see what I can find...

Well Hoover kept the FBI going long & strong because he had the files....................... on every one We think it is only nasty communist countries who spy on their population , but they all do it. I had a special branch file which originally started because I refused a scholarship to an...

The oil pump is driven off the end of the cam shaft . When I reassemble these engines, I remove the oil pump then assemble it after the sump has been replaced & tightened Check the cam is dropping onto the oil pump drive properly.

Much appreciated I got nowhere, Told to bring it in to their workshop which is currently running at 3 weeks & they claimed the switches can not be tested unless plugged into the mower .

FWIW, I have more than 1 browser installed ( actually there are 5 ) and each one is used for specific items. This one is only used for work related things , another is for motorcycling , another for the hire cars & associated forums , one for tax , finance & government , one for general...

And note Illengine said BARN cats. You get them as kittens and put them in the barn in a cage with some of your old worn underwear but left unwashed so they bond with you. You need a big cage, I used a converted childs play pen I got from the salvage store for $ 5 After a week of being in the...

Apparently Husqvarna did publish a couple of service notices ( so says the web so it must be true ) I have gone through this mower with a fine toothed comb Thought about bad connections but I have poked & proded pushed & pulled, used jumpers to bypass all of the regular switches . Spent neat 4...

Got a TS242 Husky with one of those dreaded Smart switches # 586 59 07 08 . The PTO stopped working & they drove it back into the shed turned it off and that was it, nothing after that. I have been through all of the wiring, checked all of the safety switches, jumped the ones that could be...

Worked or worked properly What they don't come back and admit is when they were mowing for 2 hours on a 80 deg day the engine siezed because the timing was out I have seen so may You tube videos showing some thing being done that I know will destroy the engine over time it is not funny. I used...

Look at what you have there. The gasket which is soft will have a line impressed into it by the ridge cast into the surface The other side is dead flat so the diaphragm goes against that because the little pump flaps have to seal against the hole . Assuming that it had been working before you...

You should have 2 a pump diaphragm a pump diaphragm gasket There are 4 variations of the diaphragm The gasket goes to the side that has the little ridge cast into it The diaphragms are coded by the position of the tab that protrudes from the edge They are different sizes , shapes & in...

A = America Usually found on imported models because the locally made ones are all for the USA & Canada ( AFAIK )

The difference is. When people buy a dud carb from an on line shyster, the equipment ends up in one of our workshops with the line I don't know what is wrong it can't be the xyz becaause I have just replaced it . Nine time out of 10 it is the xyz because it was bad out of the box about 1/2 the...

But we will keep on doing the same thing till it is too late only two outcomes, those who are on the bottom arm themselves and incite a revolution. or We consume ourselves to extinction Communism , socialism capitalism None are perfect , all of them have their good points & all of them have...

Time cutters are good mowers but like all good mowers require maintenance. As dad did the right thing by you, do the right thing by the mower & get a few sets of different types of blades to see which suits you & your grass . Go to Torro's web page and download the parts & service manual for...

Right way to go Ron A letter from your local MP will usually get you a refund or replacement but does nothing for the rest, some of which are to timid to take the proper actions Just be wary of using litigation funders because all they want to do is get large amounts of money out of HD & Ryobi...

Rule of thumb with ebay is to right click on the "View other items " link Now if the bulk of what comes up are carburettors & similar parts or all small engine / go cart / motorcycle type parts or all lawn & garden & landscaping parts then you might assume they know what they are doing & sell...

Unless you used the really expensive Walbro carb cleaner o spray out your carb with, you have just destroyed it Automotive carb cleaner destroys the seals in most check valves used in cube carbs Despite what the experts on You tube say, if you pulled the carb apart then the gaskets need to be...

I have just fitted a 406722 into a z435 that originally had a 44L777. The owner wanted to retain the original blower housing so he could continue to buy the JD engine maintenace kits So the bower says 23Hp JD but the engine is a 19Hp. Very common for a customer to come in with a second hand...

From an engineering point of view the best solution is open grease tapered roller bearing with grease seals Next down the list is open bearings with grease seals then metal shielded bearings with grease seals and the worst is dry with a 2rs bearing But the worst is also the cheapest . Now the...

Perhaps it is because I have been using cork gaskets on pressed tin motorcycle oil filled primary chain cases for decades, I never seem to have a problem with that cork gasket Most people over tighten them which makes them leak Try putting them on with a tension wrench to get the fell for just...

People are always asking me for advice on what new mower to buy which is silly because I don't repair many brand new mowers . However on of the things I suggest is to add up the lengths of the blades You need 1/2" of overlap between the blades to prevent rooster tailing in long grass So a 42"...

That has been cracked for a very long time Failure to properly grease the spindle eventually cause the bearing to collapse and the balls hammering around inside finished the job. So quite some time back it coped a big bang but kept on running till it ultimately failed .

The biggest problem with the USA is your very corrupt election system and until that is addressed then nothing will change because the parties are dependent upon the megga rich to fund the insane spending on election campains and of course they business & individuals do not give away all that...

And the merchant Big Box Stores need to be properly regulated according to the anti-trust laws the USA pioneered back in the 1800's but conviently forgot about back in the 60's .

A nice sentiment but it goes a lot deeper than just paying a bit more and you will be paying a lot more, not a little & by a lot you are talking around 50% . Then there are other consequences like a reduction in your pension as well because that is where the pension funds make their money...

Bushfire came through here in 1999 and two people who would become my customers got burned out. Both of them claimed for a mower on their insurance One bought a Honda , the other a Murray Sentenial . The Honda mowed about 4 acres plus was used for towing & general yard transport. It cost the...

Exactly And people outside the particular industry have no idea how astronomical the costs of R & D can be A lot more profitable not to do any then use that money to buy other peoples profits . And that is what they teach MBA's to do , seek out innovative or improved then buy out the company and...

The man was a lot smarter than most think & the music was probably the best most influencial ever . He is the only artist whose whole catalogue has been in continious production since it was released, even the ones that got banned. Despite the crude language, their is a lot of sound philosophy...

IT could be a lot of things , many of which some of you have eluded to. That is why he was asked to do some tests a week ago . We await his reply because our time should not be wasted either .

There is a theory that because invoicing costs money then you try to avoid invoicing for single items or small orders . Using this theory you optimise profits by only filling big orders ( that is where those minimum spend numbers come from ) so you encourage the big spenders with big discounts &...

If you can make those nice mower ramps then you can replace spindle bearings The only real trick is to leave them in the deck because removing the housing usually causes one of the bolts to break off . When you fit them use some never sieze on the threads. The slowest part is generally removing...

Don't know about lunching together but there are dozens of clubs exclusively for CEO's A friend needed an on line profile so I put myself in as CEO of my holding company on linked in so he could link to me He was trying to get funding for a doco but you need 200 points from Linked in to even be...

To parraphrase what a lot of my widdowed customers tell me "If I had known mowing was this much fun then I would have been mowing the lawns & that con artist husband of mine would have been doing the cleaning & dusting"

Goes in cycles Remember back in the 80's & 90's when all of the brands sold off their auxillary business in order to "Concentrate on our core business ". Electroluxe flogging off Husqvarna being an example we are all familiar with . This was the fashion back then and every time they sold off...

Don't know for sure if it is ethanol or not but you are right about check valves New ones are not replaceable so now I have a 5 gal bucket full of dead carbs I was going to pull them down for parts but they will probably go to the scrappie . t goes against my nature to just swap but considering...

How old is the mower What is it's model number How noisy are the drives Rare on a ztr for both hydros to pack it in at the same time Very common for left side to fail first

He needs to measure the PTO shaft diameter & Length Instructions are on Small Engine Warehouse web page Nothing else is important if you are staying within the same brands as alternators , Carbs & engine controls will all swap over if need be. However you can get caught with the oil filter...

Not as good as it sounds but I did find what I thought was a faulty old B & S engine only to find out much latter the magnets were supposed to be reversed so to get the module to work, you need to put it on upside down. Depends upon the compass but it does sort of work a bit better than the...

And are you sure the blower housing with the model number on it belongs to the engine it is on. More than once I have been caught out because the covers had been swapped and what was under the hood was not the original engine.

Get a compass, a real one with a swinging needle, not your phone Sit it on top of the coils & slowly rotate the flywheels ( check both engines ) I am hazarding a guess that the magnets on one have reversed or are compromised As the flywheel passes the compass , the needle will swing either N (...

They pop off I use a small wrecking bar with the groove for pulling nails widened to fit nicely on the side of the seal Removing them destroys them Then get put on using a socket If the head is off the engine it goes in the freezer overnight

unless you are blowing snow or working soil in mid winter the prime style carbs give less problems than the choke style Auto choke carbs are a joke and regularly fail I would replace 10 auto chokes for every regular carb that requires repair or replacement. Right now I am trying to chase down...

Gasket kits ( ex China ) for 40 series are everywhere for around $ 20 to $ 30 Genuine B & S about double that price Full kit is https://www.partstree.com/parts/briggs-and-stratton-84001915/ Most don't have head bolts included Down here B & S list it as " currently unavailible " NLA or out of...

This is the first intelligent thing they have done since the take over Big retailers force the price down & also dictate terms like defferred payments Briggs can not afford either so their only long term survival plan will be to reposition themselves as a top shelf premium product and leave the...

Thanks for the Redsquare heads up. One I was not ware of .

And probably around 500,000 tons of steel a year. I send about a ton of old blades to a friends foundry a year . He thinks I am God because he gets a ton of high quality scrap of known composition for free & that is a big win I get him to occasionally cast motorcycle parts for me so it is a win...

Worked properly or fired & ran ? And you checked the engine with a strobe light to make sure the spark was happening a the right time or It ran for long enough to sell it to some one where a year later the engine siezed because it was out of time and overheated ? And I find it very hard to...

Tar that is good to know. I met Peter Ariens when he was here after BY-Norm who were the Stens distributor went bust due to being conned by Tecumseh & paying a fortune for the Aust franchise 6 months before Tecumseh went bust ( no morals is big business ) . I would have thought it was latter...

The US banned swing back blades because of the potential for them to come off and injure people but allow crankshaft straiteners It is indeed a very funny world we live in .

So do Ariens family have a controlling interest in Arrowhead or did they sell out of Stens ? AFAIK Extreme are sold through Stens down here but I did a search for a customer the other day & noticed that All Mowers were selling the Xtreme clutch for $ 179 ( Aus ) which is about $ 120 US from a...

usually there is nothing other than what looks like castleing on the side of the rod which creates little pools of oil that wick into the space between the journal & the rod

Putting on the old metallurgists hat, I could not consider a more dangerous thing to do than to cold straiten a crankshaft apart from cold straitening cast motorcycle wheels. The fact that the engine companies actually made such a tool flabbergasts me . The chances of a "repaired" crank having a...

Keeps your fingers warm too if it has a metal handle

Like hammer I charge extra for fitting parts supplied by the customer, usually $ 30 . Like Star I get cranky when I see parts that have come from one of my wholesalers listed on a web shop for less than my cost price. RGS are doing this on a lot of parts because they have installed an ex...

There is a reason why I buy my greasing equiptment from McNaught retail when I could get it cheaper from any of my normal wholesalers. And that is because 10 out of 10 will be perfect. Bought from any one else and a 50% failure rate is not uncommon. While all of the wholesalers stand by their...

ZTR's use about 1/4 more fuel /hr than a tractor with a hydro drive A hydro drive uses about 1/4 more fuel than a vari drive ( all belts ) or a manual gearbox . High lift blades will add about 10% to the fuel useage because they shift more air and shifting air costs money Throwing with low lift...

There is a big D a small D & a double D In some places it is illegal to sell the tools retail OTOH the overseas vendors bypass local laws and it is cheaper to buy the 6,8,10,12,14 tool set than to get a single one . So Alibaba and search "carburettor tool kit " You will get 50 pages to wade...

People do not seem to get the CEO / MBA mentality A business to them is something they buy & sell the same as you buy parts & sell them. And all business are the same so customers do not matter unless they account for a double digit percentage of income . Most of them do not even see a number...

Put your finger on the governor arm and try to accelerate the engine If it does the same thing you have a problem with the main jet . Put a volt meter across the battery using some long wires and see if you get a significant voltage drop when you turn the blades on ( electrical problem ) Unplug...

See the problem is companies are run by accountants with MBA's who believe their own spin & refuse to accept they can make a dud decision. last year the biggest Telco down here that is 1/2 owned by the government ( bad idea ) decided that they would save $ 300,000 a year if they stopped taking...

Really ? Mowing 3' high pasture and triple cutting ? knocking 1/4" of a fine couch lawn and striping Mulching 3" off the top of dense kikkiu ? How long is a piece of string ?

No crime in dropping the deck off to get it onto the trailer Easier with a couple of strong lads . A good dealer will take the deck off in any case to do the servicing I am mobile and am currently limited to 48" decks so bigger than that get done on site I have on occasions put some planks...

Like Scrubbie, I have done a lot of updating so am now using Brave as well Not seen an add since doing it in November & the November & December web use was less than 1/2 of what it was in 2020 for the same months .

I do feel your pain & thank the heavens that down here we have free health care ( if you don't die waiting ) . This last 2 years has been a big wake up for me, having to drag ones self along the floor in agony to the bathroom was not fun and needing to use a hose to clean the bum was not fun...

London to a brick & on it was an accountant with an MBA because it saves a lot of money And on tat subject , ever found a gun that will actually seal onto the plastic blob ? I have always removed then and greased with a digit .

Considering that the Predators are a Honda Clone I would be very surprised if they would firstly fit ( as in bolt on ) Then if they bolted on then there is the question of weather they are timed the same But of course if you read it on the WWW it must be true . Good luck.

Measure the voltage from the starter + to ground with the engine cranking ( or trying to ) with the battery alone and with the battery + jump pack. Chances are he has a bad connection on one of the battery straps . I like to bypass the mowers battery cables one at a time using jumpers from the...

What you need to remember that this is an assembly line so none of the engines had a problem to be fixed unlike what comes into your workshop. So all they are doing is the most basic of test to make sure that most of the parts have been put in and the engine runs. After that the rest is up to...

Start with the basics The engine should be fine and one of the few things that you have to adjust is the throttle & choke . Check that the choke is closing fully and the throttle is working . If that is OK then a couple of other things to check Get a 1/2" open ender , grind it a bit thin then...

Don't know what is done over there but down here they used to get hooked up to a propane / air feed hose and fiired up without oil, just the assembly lube. So it is basically engine fires more than once = good

OK, That will make it a bit more of a challenge. Victa did that on their commercial 160 cc engines back in the 60's & 70's I work around that by making up a bracket to take a Honda micro switch .

You could also have a rusted closed nipple I regularly have to remove a nipple, put it in my very high pressure McNaught gun and pump some grease through it. I do the same with all the new ones I fit to make sure they are working properly before they go in. The assortment I got from Stens has...

Fine for something like a hydro case that will hopefully only come apart once in 10 years or longer But a dissaster for things like a rocker cover that comes off regularly Some nice Klingerit gaskets applied with Hylomar on one side & bentonite grease or graphite on the the other and it will...

I have just bought my next 10 years worth of fuel filters directly from the factory in China for 95¢ . Down side is had to order 200 of each type and will need to test them before use . Down here B & S require you to do an initial order of around $ 20,000 ( aus) , this number keeps on changing...

No . Unless otherwise stated all torques are for a clean dry new bolt in a clean dry hole . Any lubrication will reduce the friction thus lower the torque readings on your tension wrench. Tension wrenches do not measure tension, they measure the resistance of the thread to the rotation of the...

No You crank the motor with your finger holding the float up Fuel stops flowing before the float touches the carb and all is well . Or flip he carb over and pressurise the inlet The weight of the float on an upside down carb should seal off 5 to 7 psi The welch plugs are only needed to be...

Thanks for correcting my error Obviously I have yet to dive deeply into a KT740. Generally I use a piece of fine piano wire to chop the silicon on anything that has been glued on . And being a silicon hater, the two I do service now sport some nice hand cut gaskets as I have better things to do...

If your safety switches are working then you set the parking brake and get off the engine should stay running . If you want to check the blades then yes a heavy weight on the seat works wonders Older seat switches could be bypassed but because of the high numbers of idiots who followed...

Opps Sorry I missed page 3 so I have just said the same as Star, in a different way. Take home is , if you have access to the $ 30,000 worth of test gear then you can dry test the magnetos. At the factory they simply run a magnet past the coil and measure the voltage generated and the time lapse...

You have not been able to test small engine magneto coils with an ohm meter since 1994 when the patient for Atom Industries points eliminator expired and every manufacturers fitted coils with embedded Hall Effect Trigger circuits. In fact some cheap ohm meters can fry the chip and as most work...

And buy it from a mower shop or a dedicated mower parts supplier , not from Eye-Fool-Ewu on scammers paradise ebay or Amazon.

Start by trying to turn the engine over by hand Of you can not do that take out the spark plug out & try again BY HAND If petrol oozes / blasts out the mower has hydro locked because the carb float is not working If it rotates freely plug out but won't do it plug in the either the ACR is broken...

Hello Joao From your name & grammar I assume English is not your native language 1) battery should be 12.5 V ( or more ) when fully charged . When you try to start the engine it should not drop any lower than 10v while the engine is cranking When taken off the battery charger the battery...

for all practical purposes they are not testable other than the HT side Ie plug cap to coil ground However they are a non repairable part so they either work or they don't work . You can use a variable gap spark tester to see just how good a working one is . but that is about the limit of it .

That was my thinking a week ago, post # 2 but looks like Ian has gone AWAL

Down here you would be told Illustrated Parts list to indicated there was a diagram of some sort , not just a list of parts & numbers . And yes, if the blower fan has to be removed then most are not an economical repair Occasionally if I get a newish blower in so I can pull the fan & put some...

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According to the IPL it just comes directly off So probably rusted solid get some wedges and tap them under the pulley to put a preload on the hub The strike the end of the spindle shaft Something like an air hammer works best with the nut on loosely to prevent the shaft from mushrooming at the...

Spend a bit more time on the services and stop throwing away all those plugs. It is the throw away mentality that is destroying the planet . Put a note on the bottom of your invoice stating that to help reduce pollution & global warming parts are now replaced as required rather than by...

Every engine we assist in repairing is another new engine that is not being made. Thus resources are not being wasted so we end up saving the planet one engine at a time which is more beneficial than walking down the streets chanting slogans carrying a placard .

A research institution ( funded by agriculture interest & the major fresh fruit retailers ) found that the only 2 sprays that work with fruit fly were a big problem for bees. This is a true fact , what was overlooked is fruit fly is attracted by the smells of the ripening fruit so you don't...

Intake sucks Exhaust blows So only the intake equires a valve stem seal

Get a new plug . Once they start to break down they can usualy not come good again because the insulators are no longer glazed .

It has been 40 years since I left college And even back then there was a theory about the possibility that we were making a big mess of the planet , which is sort of ironic because it was the university dedicated to science & engineering One of the predictions was an increase in the intensity &...

It don't snow in NSW Big problems with a lot of Americans is they forget there are more places on the planet than America So I am in Gods own country way down south with 300 dry days a year so naturally we all drive black cars ( except me ) when a motorcycle would be the perfect mode of...