Learn how to properly fix or repair your own outdoor power equipment if it won’t start, bogs out, won’t rev up, chain or blade is dull and doesn’t cut good, needs sharpened, or simply just runs poorly.
Simple and basic, do it yourself tutorials to help you with your broken lawn and garden equipment.
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Whether it be a handheld, two stroke, two cycle engine like chainsaws, weed eaters, string trimmers, grass trimmers, line trimmers, hedge trimmers, strimmers, brush cutters, leaf blowers, or four stroke, four cycle units like lawn mowers, pressure washers, generators, riding lawn mowers that need parts installed or replaced, I’m your guy.
I’ve been a small engine mechanic for many years so my videos are loaded with tips and tricks that I have learned and want to pass on to you. I want Steve’s Small Engine Saloon to SAVE YOU TIME, FRUSTRATION AND MOST IMPORTANT, MONEY!
One of the landscaping guys i worked for as a teen sprayed the underside of the decks with dry graphite lube at the start of the season. Seemed to reduce sticking of wet grass, sometimes a grass “casting” of the deck was on the floor on Monday morning) but we still had to power wash everything at the end of the season. Any comments about whether that’s a good idea or not?
Greetings, Ordered my coil today...less than $20 on Amazon. Yes, hope it works. BTW, had a metal rivet get stuck to the magnets. May have caused damage. Thanks Chief Ken Bauer, USAF (Ret)
This video was a great help. I tried the cap but that wasnt it. It was the black hose that goes to the carb that was clogged. removed the gas, removed the hose, took a metal kabobo skewer and poked at it, added gas and knew it worked when the gas had a fast drip rather than the very slow one it did have. started it up and did the lawn that same night. Thanks!
My riding mower is not start after it stop with running out of gas I fill it up but now it is not starting the light turning on and hour displays on please help
With the float removed we see a shiny metal disk pressed into the plastic carburetor body. The disk in my carb had fallen out. What purpose does it serve? May I leave it out? If it must be installed how is that done so it won't fall out again?
With the float removed we see a shiny metal disk pressed into the plastic carburetor body. The disk in my carb had fallen out. What purpose does it serve? May I leave it out? If it must be installed how is that done so it won't fall out again?
I mean, sure in a home owner setting… but no one’s doing this to mow commercial properties lol. As a homeowner it would be more practical to just buy two trimmers. Keep one adjusted how you said and keep the other normal.
put air in the hole on the end of the grip and it works just great! Been doing it that way for years. Nobody had to show me… figured it out on the first go around.
Talk about confusing, I recently started buying two cycle oil by the gallon. I use lab beakers and a graduated cylinder to measure oil quantity. Here in the U.S. we use ounces per gallon and my measuring devices are calibrated in milliliters. I have to do a conversion to get the milliliters per gallon but once I get it I mark the gallon containers with the number of ml/gal. Works great. PS: One ounce is 29.574 ml (round up to 30).
The only thing to remember with the speed feed head is that the internal spool must be flipped depending if your line trimmer is clockwise or counter clockwise rotation. The internal spool is marked "L" and "R". Left/Right discharge. If you have this flipped the incorrect way it can be a major problem. With Echo trimmers the "L" on internal spool needs to be down, facing the ground, when is use. Just FYI
I worked summers for a landscaping company for 3 years and at the end of the day I spent an hour sharpening a stack of blades with a bench grinder for the next day.
