Recent content by Hammermechanicman

Rescued from going to the dump. Front spindles and steering gear froze. Got that fixed so I thing I am going restore it and put in the town farm day parade. Have to see if I have the smallest JD tractor.

When they were in indiana UPS to me in Ohio was overnight. And yes, Ground tracking is useless.

After some research found this out. Stens has switched from UPS to FedEx. There are actually two different FedEx shippers. FedEx Ground and FedEx Express. Ground ships by trucks and can take a week or more from ship to delivery. Express uses planes and still does overnight ship to deliver. The...

Last week I had a troy bilt RZT50 that had a bad engine drive pulley. Had to take the engine off and proceeded to snap off a stud of the bearing separator trying to get it off. Heat didn't help. Wound up drilling a series of holes in a row in the pulley hub and then split it off with a chisel...

Should have all that done before lunch. 😁

Thanks. Got it running but the carb sat for years with gas in it and it is trashed. Got a chineese one coming from sleezebay. Looks like the one one it is already AM

Dang, you got a good memory. I can't remember last Tuesday.

It's on an old briggs engine on a 1956 lawn tractor. Not the original but probably 60s vintage.

Another tool the young guys probably don't have.

Got to use my point file today.

Yes. The choke is on a solenoid. As the engine cranks it will open and close every few seconds on a timer. If the engine does not start after a certain amount of cranking time it logs an over crank code. One of the reasons generators auto run once a month is to keep the regulator diaphragm...

The propane and natural gas generac generators are famous for hard starting if the valve lash is not dead on because there is not enough vacum to activate the regulator diaphragm. The 2 finger salute in the carb is the test. Seen it a few times myself. Not sure if the gas engines are that...

I change those all the time. There are kits on ebay to change to ball bearings. https://www.ebay.com/itm/123773594353 https://www.ebay.com/itm/124810180231

I recently picked up 10 of these. The stens oil is getting more expensive than name brand at the parts store. https://www.ruralking.com/providence-automotive-oil-10w30-5-quarts-pa-10305

I am so aggravated with computers, especially windows, anymore I need to double up my blood pressure meds. I have a client with 10 PCs and every time windows does an update 2 of them just deletes all the printers. I have to go in and remove the drivers, reinstall the drivers and then reinstall...