Recent content by gearnoggin

A couple weeks ago I was riding my 4 wheeler on my in-laws property and spotted a junk pile in his woods. So I decided to check it out and ended up finding what I believe is a brick top Lawn Boy engine amongst the stuff. Thought it was a pretty neat find because of my recent interest in 2 stroke...

Just wanted to see if I could start a thread for us to post our current progress on our projects. I really like reading about what others are currently doing to their lawn boys. It's been kinda quiet on here lately and I know some of us would love to hear what progress others are making...

Hello everyone. I have a 1980's Echo PB-210E that I traded for knowing it didn't run. I had read great things about them on the net and thought it was probably just a dirty carb. The machine is in great shape, even the stickers are all in tact. Well I get it home first thing I notice is the...

I've got an 8243AE electric start only Lawn Boy I bought at the scrap yard that I'm trying to get running. I just finished rebuilding the carb after leaving it in an ultrasonic cleaner for several hours. Next I need to figure out why I'm not getting spark. Anyone know how to bypass the safety...

Just wanted to share with everyone on the forum that I discovered a great way to get an incredibly smooth edge on my lawn mower blades. I usually sharpen them with my bench grinder but it has a tendency to gouge the blade and it's difficult to sharpen mulching blades because of the curves. So I...

Last Saturday I while I was at the scrap yard I spotted this 1987 8243AE. It was getting ready to be thrown into their breakage trailer when I asked about it. I ended up buying it for $15. The motor is really hard to turn by hand so I'm gonna remove the spark plug and spray some pb blaster into...