Well the garbage picked three lawnmowers this morning when I went out for a drive in my own neighborhood. All three have Tecumseh motors. That is called the Craftsman, the Mastercraft, and the Craftsman. 5-horse, 4-horse and 2.8, I know nothing about them. I have not even pulled their chords yet.
Okay, first the compression test to see if we are going to proceed. Okay, this one has a pole starter that does not catch. I have got a trick to fix that that you will just love.
Compression is good on this one. I think that would be a runner. And the finally, the rusty one. There is the whole and you have to throw their body away but I can save the motor. I have the spare bodies.
And that is has got good compression too so that is a runner. Tecumseh is a most common problem, is carburetor problems because the carburetor is the lowest point of fuel system so water and dirt collects in there or they have sat too long and gums them up with stale gas. So after I flip them over, rotate the crankshafts, check if the blades are bent. I will proceed to fix them.
I will pass bent crankshaft test. So they are all ready to go for a repair that I can make one carrying two percent for sure. I might as well start on this pretty one first. Two screws later, grab the pulse trigger off and I will show you the trick. We got to peal back this pretty little label. It is bolted anyways. They never start in one pull, Briggs do.
Now that that is pealed back, we will see a little plastic wedge. We could pry out if you wanted to and that holds everything all together when it pushes down it spreads open two plastic pieces and that is what holds this whole assembly together.
Well, you put a dry wall screw or some kind of screw down through that wedge and when it gets into the middle but expands a wedge more gives more friction for the dogs. And then, they are more likely to come out so it happen to be coming out right now but they were not at first. I hate it when that happens and you jerk and you pull your shoulder out. I just press that drywall screw with my hand and now I screw it down to both halfway.
I got it and I just take my cutting grinder and nip the top off of it and put the label back on. Now you can see it is going to work every time. It has got more friction and that causes those dogs to come out. Label is back on, now I can check the compression. Compression is good. I know she will be a runner too. The very next thing smell the gas and see if it is stale. Well, there is pretty much no gas in here so that is good.
Next step for every unknown Tecumseh engine is undo this one at the bottom of the bowl and drain about and get the crap out of it even if it is just stale gas.
Of course you are going to get sticky fingers doing this when you take off this nut do not lose the washer.
Now the bowl, gee that is a really clean one. I bet it was running last year maybe the only thing wrong was the pole starter, that is sweet. Now it is very important to check the holes this is your jet. You got a whole in the middle, a little tiny one down there. You got a cross hole right there. And then right up by my fingernail you got an itty-bitty little whole with that one always plugs up the most and the one in the middle. But I like to clean them out good because the one with the wires from a wire brush. I cut it off with my wire cutter and shove it to those holes, rub it up and down. It cleans all the varnish off the inside because if you do not clean those wholes well enough your lawn mower will start then die, start then die.
You are even putting little bends in your wire brush wire that works good because it rubs this out of the holes better and cleans the holes out better than just a straight wire that is the trick. And then I just blow compressed air afterwards.
Ready for a little gas, half a tank is good. I do not want to give the customer too much gas for free. Check the oil, almost full enough, color is not that bad. No silver or no milky color. Good enough to make your start.
Now this thing has a wet air cleaner. And then we remove it to start it. Never to try to start one of these types of lawn mowers with a wet air cleaner because it will choke out and flood out and make black smoke and fail your sparkplugs.
Now I have got less than 10 minutes of this lawnmower that I garbage picked. I hope the person on Camden Press is watching this. You never know they might watch YouTube too to see how you see their lawnmowers is probably going to start. The primary bulb has no cracks. That hole is necessary to be sealed when you are pushing with your finger. It does not work in this brand of lawnmower. Very quick pushes works the best. The faster you can push it and seal that hole the better it works to pushing up the gas. If you push it slow, it does not push out any gas and it will not start. So you give it like a jab. Now let us see what is going to happen.
Holy crap! This lawnmower did not lie. They almost never happen, this one of these kind of mowers. It makes a good video anyways. But I did not know what I am going to do now. Thanks Brandon, thanks for the shirt. I need a reward.
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