Recent content by TobyU

Again, I'll go back to how long does it take you from start to finish to remove sharpen a blade and put it back on? All this soaking, cleaning, wire brushing, scraping, blasting, etc is fine if you are the homeowner and you're only doing your blades once or maybe twice a season but even for...

It is worth noting how much certain conditions will chew up the blades. Living near creeks I think is the worst and then woods is the second worst but I learned a long time ago how amazingly rough simply sticks and or pine cones were on a blade. It makes sense that blades get chewed up if people...

But exactly how long does it take you to sharpen the average blade like this? Obviously a very dull blade is going to take long and one that's not nicked or chewed up or even that dull won't take long at all but how long does the average blade take you?

It's not It's not the governor. The governor is doing its job and when the engine starts to slow down RPMs it opens up to try to maintain the speed which eventually and pretty quickly in this case it opens to full throttle trying to get more speed. It can't do that because there's not enough...

I'm a little confused by your statement sharp side down.. I get a lot of mowers in every year the blades are on upside down and I often tell people that since they usually understand that lawn mower blades are only sharpened on one side, to put the sharpened edge up towards the sky.

Now after reading most of the replies I'm going to say I'm glad that most people realize it's not that big of a deal. Those of you who are going to insist that some commercial blade bouncer is really necessary and it makes a real difference or any other thing like cleaning off the blades and...

Before I even read the replies I'm going... Let's not! Let's don't even bother to talk about it because no one is ever going to agree on it and there no real consensus since brand new blade manufacturers will sell you a brand new blade in different types of sharpness, coated/dipped and paint, or...

It's very possible because the ACR on these Briggs & Stratton engines is an absolute joke! They should have fixed the problem long ago but Briggs basically refuses to fix anything of their inferior quality designs. Don't get me wrong, I love Briggs & Stratton engines, some of them. I just call...

These things rarely have any valve adjustment issues that will prevent them from running or running just fine UNLESS someone has been in their monkeying around. If you hear one popping out of the intake after it gets up to even slightly past a slow running speed then you can guess that the...

From all of this I think we've learned one thing and it goes back to what I always tell everyone when troubleshooting a mower... Always start by making sure the machine is getting enough fuel especially on the no starts because well over 85% of the time that is the case.. After you have...

The coil Gap is pretty forgiving on those. Just use a business card or whatever but most of them will fire just fine even at the widest position and it's more important to make sure it doesn't rub on the flywheel but a few thousands here or there is not going to cause a no spark condition. If...

Whatever happened with this? I'm a little confused if I conflicting statements in the first post. Says they think it's obviously too rich but then when they give it choke it smooths out and runs better but only has 30% power. Sounds to me like it's actually lean and even with the choke it's not...

Did you just buy this more recently? If so, I can kind of see the concern because it's a new toy but either way, I feel there's way too much thought and emphasis but into this situation.. It's a mower, you turn on the blades you drive over the grass and it cuts the grass. That's really all I...

Or just knock the the lousy green crap down and don't worry about it. You're just going to have to do it again in about a week. 2-3 weeks for me because I hate grass that much. Wait! Does that mean I should mow every 3 days. DIE GRASS DIE!

I see where you've changed the coils but you need to do basic diagnosis to see why it isn't starting when this happens. I assume it's cranking over but not running? Then the first thing would be to determine whether it's not running because it has too little fuel or too much. Technically you can...

I can't imagine commercial customers bringing in their mower every weekend for this. Is this what you're saying they do or you just mean when they do get around to it they drop it off on a weekend. I'm going to have to weigh in on that with my cheapslate(ness). I find that to be ridiculous and I...

I would either remove them if possible or just forget about it. It's really not worth messing with either way.. If you're not cutting super wet class then there's not much reason to worry about what the underside of your deck looks like until you get around to sharpening or changing out your...

No doubt everyone has a different philosophy but as I said before there are many ways to do something to obtain the same desired end result. Also, as I mentioned before apparently people's climates and conditions and other factors greatly influence what you will see or what you need to do. I...

And there we have it and just what I expected from someone.. Being critical of the method of repair when you have no information on the results of those repairs. Maybe in your experience you have seen it work out differently but I thoroughly researched this through observation and personal...

I don't find that many of the YouTube guys use this method but it's all over the place on YouTube and that's why I hate bothering with the videos and don't like it when people go there because they typically do more work than they need to do or mess things up and then can't get it fixed on their...

Yes, I do it all the time. On the old Briggs with aluminum carb there's no separate pilot jet or emulsion tube etc to get these things running. I just push the mower handles to the ground so the front wheels are off and so the carb won't leak when I take the bowl off from the half inch jet bolt...

Problem is there are only a FEW that do good work as you just said. I would say over 80% of them that I have seen either do things the wrong way or the hard way.

Yes, and most of this is because of the evil youtube! I tell people all the time to stay away from that and away from that rabbit hole because most every video I see either does things the wrong way completely or at least they do things the hard way. Most people do come up with the proper...

Looks like you're choke is in the closed position and it's only being forced open because many of those are on a spring and they can work against the spring and yours is bouncing back and forth as the engine surges. This could just be that the choke adjustment from the cable needs to be proper...