Recent content by donslawns

Standard mulitmeter with battery wire connected or disconnected same result. Even with no battery it should show a charge of about 14v dc.

As in "nothing" I meant it has battery voltage but not charging or any output from the regultor. 28v A/C at wot from the stator. Indicates regulator, right? Now you now where I'm lost! To me, the stator is doing what it is supposed to do, the regulator is not. But 2 new regulators, and a known...

I got this Troybilt in the shop that was not charging. Briggs 44H777-0116-E1. Stator output was 28vac, nothing out of the voltage regulator. I replaced the regulator. Still no output. Replaced it with another new regulator. Still no output. I start questioning my abilities. I pulled a known good...

LMAO! OK smart guy what if it's a standard mill file?

90% of the time when someone brings a mower in and they say that they have low power, they are running on one cylinder and don't know it because the exhaust doesn't sound that much different to the average person. Pull one spark plug wire off at a time. The engine should run on one cylinder and...

That squeaking noise is the aluminum connecting rod seizing to the cast iron crankshaft. These small engines have no bearing inserts. It will most likely weld itself to the crank soon and the connecting rod will snap. Or it could have possibly broken one rod already, which would account for no...

My guesstimation from what I have seen is that with GOOD maintenance Briggs can go 1000 hrs, Kohlers maybe 2500 and I have seen some Kawasaki powered equipment with nearly 4000 hrs.

I have had a couple come through my shop and they are disposable for sure. The other Menards product that I see a lot of is their FVP batteries. People think that they are getting a good deal but I replace half a dozen per year that were bought just a few months before. Menards = Chinese garbage.

It seems that I find a fair amount of Kohler twins that the choke is not fully closing. If you have separate controls then it is just a choke cable adjustment. I have cured several with just that.