Buyer Beware! Repair Shop Screwed My Customer With Faulty Aftermarket Chainsaw Parts! 

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The spark plugs can be used for catfish sinkers. Drop them off at your favorite bait shop. LOL Enjoy your work!

OEM Parts are the only way to do things properly! I've made a few customers mad because I won't let them bring me their own parts. If it leaves my shop it's gonna be perfect!

Gotta be careful of knock offs too. Recently bought motorcraft coils for my truck that I got for a good deal. They came in motorcraft packaging and were identical in every wat to real ones, but they made my truck run like crap. My mechanic said they all were counterfeits and the supplier I got them from was not happy either.

Using the same honest criteria, love to see the Chickanic head up department in Washington with the same results saving tons of money and to get rid of the scammers.

Louis Rossmann on youtube did a test on Amazon fuse kits and found that some of the manufacturers (China) did not blow at their stated values. Not even 4 times their value. When saving money costs you money you've been robbed twice.

Someone once said it's wise to learn from the mistakes other people have made .Because we can't possibly live long enough to make them all ourselves .

OEM all the way! It’s well worth the time and effort to get good parts. Learned that a long time ago. I’m glad you are addressing this. Stay away from Amazon and other chinesium companies supplying garbage.

Send your knock off spark plugs to Taryl (fixes all) he'll make you a stylish necklace 😅

What I learned most from this video: Do not ever get Bre mad! Great videos! Thank you. jim

I have tried some of junk parts . Cars , lawnmowers . chain saws .Time , money and FRUSTRATION . You are right .

I bought some new amazon supplied fuel plastic pipes and two of them had bad connections on the end and sucked air in. 😮 Ended up buying original Mercedes ones for my Sprinter van for not a lot more money but ten times the quality.. Lesson learned.

I have an old Craftsman lawn tractor with a Kohler twin cylinder engine. I forgot to winterize it one year & the carburetor seized up. When I looked into a genuine Kohler replacement, I was shocked. I could buy a Holley double pumper 4 barrel cheaper. Bought a Chineseium off eBay. It still works. If it quits, I can buy 10 aftermarket carbs cheaper than 1 OEM

I really like your honesty and content. 😊

Last year I ordered a carb from Amazon for my 30 yo JD LX176. To my surprise, the connections were backwards. It was a mirror image of the original. I ended up rebuilding my original carb.

Bre, I have to admit, I bought an Amazon carburetor package for my cheapie Poulan chainsaw. Now, I believe I paid a whopping 119 bucks for it back when Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc her in CT but I couldn't bring myself to pay 60 bucks for an OE carb alone so I gambled on 21 for the Amazon. To my amazement, it tried to start on the second pull and did on the fourth. I admit, I had to tweak the adjustments on the carb to get it singing but being a former racer who is used to carb adjustments, to me, it was no big deal. Your video on adjustments helped me on that, thank you. 20 minutes changing the carb, lines and fuel filter, 5 minutes adjusting and I had close to 2 cord of wood cut from a freshly down black walnut in about an hour, and this is the bottom of the barrel Poulan, a 3314 with the 14" bar. I get it, that import stuff can be crap a lot of the time. Heck I thought I'd be robbing parts from the import to fix the OE, but it's working for now. I know lot's of people, in fact most will have no idea about adjusting and even be a little scared of doing it so I am the anomaly. This is why I love your channel, I've learned a bunch about the small engine world. Thank you so very much.

You are without a doubt, the *BEST* and most honest small engine mechanic *EVER,* Bre!! ❤❤❤❤

For the pile of plugs, find an artistic welder that can make them into decorations, ie a butterfly, give em to customers. LOL. Great info

Great work you do on your channel! Fixing stuff started with me when I was a baby!! Walking home from school back in 1965 when I was in 3rd grade, I found a lawn mower out for the trash truck to get. I pushed it home. I asked my father to help me fix it; he said: "That's impossible, I know nothing about lawnmowers." I tried to pull the rope, but it would not move. I took the entire thing apart and ended up at the piston; I had to knock it out of the cylinder with a hammer and piece of wood. I found a piston ring was broken and that is what locked up the engine. I removed all the rings and walked the 3 miles to Sears. They sold me the new ring for $1.50. I put the motor back together and when I started the thing, my dad ran out of the house to see what was going on. He had this horrible look on his face!!! He looked at the mower, then up at me; looked down at his feet and shook his head left and right. I knew what that means: He thought his entire life was a failure - his little 8 year old child was a mechanic! ... and he didn't have a clue when I asked him to help me fix it. I made a ton of money that year mowing yards during the summer. I sold that business, with the lawnmower and the list of my clients. A year later, I fixed a radio and started a TV and Radio bussiness. longer story.... me and my red wagon picking up broken TVs and Radios. Life just keeps getting easier and easier.

westport wa.state here spark plugs make nice weights when salt water fishing around rocks. have used them for years.

You, are a literal genius. Thank you again, so much!

Bought on your advice a mantis tiller 2nd hand. Needed carb kit, new fuel lines and filter. Ordered the aftermarket chinese carb kit for the C1U K54 carb. But to save time ordered a complete kit with new carb, fuel lines, filters, sparkplug for around $15. Worked luckily properly after turning in the "H" and turning out the "L". The tank grommet was too big luckily old one was still usable. With these cheap parts you have to be lucky. For commercial users always go OEM. Especially critically dimensioned parts. Once bought aftermarket pump kit for an older outboard. Returned the aftermarket kit as the stainless waterpump cup fitted sloppy in the plastic OEM pump housing. So had to go OEM Yamaha for the complete pump.

I suggested, once, to my mechanic that he used after market parts. His response was “You can and I’ll even let you use my tools. Plus you get an “outa sight” warranty “.

Need more peeps like Bre! She's a home run! 👏👍☝️

This sage advice translates over to your car as well.

You are the best. I love your engagement, facial expressions and ability to tell interesting stories. Thank you for helping us all with our small engine problems so we can cut our grass. You are to small engine repair what my boy Scotty Kilmer is to car repair, Essential to fixing stuff without going broke. I watch you all the time and appreciate your help. God Bless You Chicanic!

If i encounter ANY lawnmower with a plastic carburetor I trash the entire engine and install a good used one with a metal carburetor. I can find plenty of the old mowers at Habitat or other thrift stores. I bought a Troy bilt that apparently had around 20 hours on it (for $40 dollars) but would stop running after a few minutes due to the junk plastic carbs that Briggs and Stratton started using. The mounting was changed making installation of a real metal carb difficult, I pulled the entire engine, scrapped it for metal and installed an older Briggs I found on a mower in another thrift store. Now i have a RELIABLE Troy bilt for the sum of $65 dollars that has not failed to start for 3 years. I well remember the failure that was the Carter ThermoQuad carburetor with its phenolic plastic body/fuel bowl. Plastic does NOT belong in carburetors. My favorite is an old Craftsman mower with a sticker on it that says "not for sale in California" That told me I likely wouldnt have air/fuel mixture issues or carb problems because its going to run dirty and well indefinitely.

This happened to me before. I was past being mad but thankfully I found your videos so I started just working on my own stuff. Can’t wait to learn more from ya! So keep them coming!

I agree. Stick with OEM parts to save the day!

I still have an after market carburetor sitting on the shelf, it’s plastic and not even machined! Just a blank casting! I kept it for nostalgia.😅😅

You’re amazing! Thanks for your videos

Thank you for taking the time to inform us!!!!!!!!

Great video Bre!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Experience is the best school for knowledge!

Thank you for your videos. You have definitely saved me TIME MONEY AND FRUSTRATION

spark plug neckless like Taryl. I once fixed a 2 stroke blower for a co-worker of wife. with one of those amazon all in 1 kits, it worked, and I used the plug, but I gave them back the original one as well. in case they had to revert to it.

Always good vids and info....LOVED that xray vision part! LOL Aint no one comin in your shop and gettin' unruly! LOL

Love you and your honesty, you are the best!

I purchased a Depstech endoscope this week after your recommendation. What a great tool to have. Going around the house and through the cars looking into all those tight places I've never seen into before.

I love your show, I watch all time. My wife is impressed with your knowledge of small and not so small engines. I've got a question that I've been trying to find out the answer. This show you talked about after-market parts. I have a John Deer D-125 Lawn tractor, 42" deck and I finally decided to change the blades. One problem that I ran into was trying to find the correct blades that are supposed to be used. I checked with John Deer site, and they never mentioned the part number. Amazon indicated they have after-market blades that supposedly fit my mower, but when I checked the ratings column, several mentioned the two blades hit each other when in use. A couple of customers said they had to grind the blades down 1/16", so they wouldn't hit each other. When I checked on the length the description page on Amazon listed the length as 23 3/8", the same length John Deer blades have at all most double the price. I did find a pair of blades that was suppose to be John Deer compatible and the blades were 23 1/4", hence I shouldn't have to grind them down. They look exactly like the John Deer blades, at half the price. I haven't received them yet, but I was wondering why John Deer doesn't make the blade model information public. I spent days this year and last year trying to find the correct blades. My blades still cut good and has never been changed or sharpened, but I know the day is coming that they will have to be changed.

I love your channel. I love to see ladies fix stuff and you are the queen of the fix-it ladies. Keep the videos coming.

Thank you for your honest videos. Really helps some of us DIY'ers.

Nothing better than a well heeled woman! Thank you Chick.

Thank you for sharing enjoy your day have fun be safe😊

I’ve been working on small engines for years, and once in a while you teach me something. Thank you 😁

Thanks for the information 😊

Great advice from a very smart lady .

Tons of good information! I've had a little experience with those cam shafts. All that work and expense for a $0.10 item. You would think that they should, at least, sell you the little plastic bushing, spring and shaft SEPARATELY!! NOPE!!! Have to buy the entire cam shaft! ERRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!! Great video Bre!! Thanks!!!!

Great information, my Stihl 016 I bought around 1990 Stihl has the original air filter, just clean and go. Great saws.

Great content Bre. I get the fact about O.E.M. parts. I use plastic bins all the time (Harbor Freight specials). Stay safe.

Thanks for the information.

Never use Chinese air filters or rubber parts.

I learned my lesson regarding aftermarket carbs. I bought an aftermarket carb for my Honda powered pressure washer. Normally I would just clean those kind of carburetors, but for some reason I had trouble trying to remove the main jet on my original one. An aftermarket carb was only $15 or so, so I took a chance. My pressure washer started up and ran alright for the 5 or so minutes that I tested it. Went to use it about a week later, and it would not run under a load unless the choke was on. After doing some further research I found out that the main jet on the aftermarket unit was the wrong size. I decided to spend the $50 or so to buy an OEM carburetor, installed it and my pressure washer has been working just fine now for over 6 months.

I discovered this channel yesterday, been binge watching all night. Yeah, I should get to bed but not sleepy yet. I ran my late father's VW shop as a teenager when his health began to fail. Ended up doing robotics engineering after college but mechanics is my first love. Keep up the great work, total fan! Being retired to Florida at 61, got plenty of time on my hands these days. By the way, anyone as sharp as you should be able to design a better carburetor. Think about it! Invention isn't that hard really, look at everything on the market and put in the best features. Very little is truly an original design.

Thanks for sharing all of that. Yes, my tiller fuel drains into the oil

Easy. Honest. And easy on the eyes for binge watching. Great info. Just ordered after market cab for residential wood chipper. $26.00. I’ll let you know. Thx

thanks for all the great advice. keep up the great advice.

I love watching your videos. They have many a time helped me. Glad you are back.

Thanks for all you do. I never fail to learn something from your videos. Happy Trails...

I just want to say i been watching your videos over the past few weeks and i been commenting alot trying to get a hold of you and even tried asking for help and had question and you say you read all the comments or some of the first ones and yet have i had you reply back and no answers. But its ok because i know on how busy you can be because as a newbie and going to school for small engine repair i understand. But i just want to say thank you for everything you do and for your videos because you have helped me out so much. But i was asking for help because im trying to get started with my own small business and i even wrote on facebook but because of your videos and seeing the common tools you use and i been wanting one of your endoscopes that you use and finally got the money up to get one and i absolutely love it. And use it almost everyday and i just want to say thank you so much. But im a big fan and really wished you would comment back more but yeah. I hope you have a good one bre and i just want to say thanks for what you do

Thanks for what you do. Love your videos. I don't rule out aftermarket parts completely, but most things are definitely worth paying a little more for OEM.

I have to say I love your honesty in your videos.

Just ordered my camera, thanks for the tip that it was a $100.00 off. I really like your channel and I appreciate the work you put into it.

Like your shop. Thanks for the update.

Thank you,

I had similar experience with my Rancher Aftermarket filter kept it from idling I bought a Husqvarna filter and it ran great

Another great video, thanks Bre.😊😊

Thank You young Lady..great video..I'm learning 😊

I love this channel! I learn a lot and great to know we're on the same page!!

Love Love Love your videos your so honest and straightforward. Your Awesome.

Thanks for the post hard to believe a commercial guy using a ms271. Always learning something new on your channel

Thank you, keep working.

That's really nice of the Echo folks to get you those parts bins. I am always needing storage like that. My parts are all electronic and smaller than yours but I have hundreds of different types and I really hate trying to find something by reading the tiny print on a commercial ZipLoc bag. The local Dollar Tree store once in a while gets parts boxes in and I buy up as many as I can. Nothing worse than spending hours to find something you need (and you KNOW you have) for a 10 minute repair.

Another great video! With all your video's I have gone with your suggestions of OEM parts. I have a Honda GV160 lawnmower, Stihl chain saw, and a Stihl weedeater over 20 years old. All of which run like new. I keep them serviced and clean and treat them as if I first bought them. Every video you put out, I learn from. Although OEM parts cost more, it's better to go with those parts and your lawn equipment will run so much better.

Well now this is a interesting video and a very interesting subject about aftermarket parts. I think I would be very leery after listening to you about buying any aftermarket parts. Now that favorite line of yours, if I can do it anybody can do it. I'm not buying that. Giving your expertise is far superior to the average person.

greta video Bri, for my cars I will sometimes use parts that are the original OEM suppliers for both my cars, I am really fortunate to have a friend who's family owns business this business, i have my Echo SRM-21 and a snowblower with a Tecumseh 8 hp engine and have kept both units oem parts only , you are only benefiting yourself by doing this, no point in being penny wise and pound foolish , or as my friends grand mother use to say if you buy cheap you buy twice 👍

During my Career as a Mechanic and Counterman, I've both bought and sold After Market parts in addition to OEM Mfgrs. Sometimes they don't fit. Fortunately for me I had 4 racks of catalogs and could sell a similar part by a dozen different Mfgrs including all the Big Brand Names. If it was a personal purchase I could sometimes modify the AM part. Because My two Homelites had nothing but an oil bath piece of foam rubber for an Air Filter element, I cleaned them all the time. The Two Poulans and the Husquvarna 55 didn't require as much attention so usually whenever I flipped the bars on them I checked out the whole saw. I sharpened the chain and greased the nose bearing after every use. When I quit those two Homelites were 35yo.

Thanks for the vid, great info! 👍👍

Ma'am, you have saved me a lot of frustration, time and money already.... However, two weeks ago I decided to go with an aftermarket trimmer head ( 2 for 1 actually) that didn't even last a week. Both were complete junk. I just ordered the SpeedFeed 400. Thank you for sharing with us what you know about two cycle engines. I commend you

GREAT video,once again you have good advice for viewers.I myself have bought many after market{Cheap Chinese} parts,and i find the plastic used is many times not glass reinforced or the fit is out of tolerance. On a filters the weave or material was cheaper and did not last as long.The spark plugs are just crap.But you have to remember they do TRY to make the exact same product AND THEN the bean counters step in and determine how to make that part cheaper.THAT means cheaper materials and looser dimensions.But they do make good hammers for home-owner USE.haha thanks bree

Thank You So Much

Another great video with sage advice.

I Love the way you Saw through the BS great channel.

Thanks for another informative and entertaining video! to state it succinctly...I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL..

Still Number 1 as the truth hurts sometimes but it always the best way to go as we can see. Cheap doesn't always work and I myself always go OEM if I can. Though as she said sometimes there is something better. As I got tired of replacing tubes in my CC RTZ50 and was able to find a zero flat that come with bearings a rim that you pull the bolt out slide in the new zero flat side the bolt right back in tighten the nut add some grease and no more flats for me. Sandspurs in Florida are like little fine needles that wreak havoc on your tires. Bike tires as well. Thanks again Bre and glad to see your back in the business as I'm sure your local customers are. Looking into getting me a Bad Boy Maverick HD as CC RTZ 50 is still in good shape but ruff on the old bod (comfort ride and maybe a lot less cutting time plus needing something a little more heavy duty for the other part of my land now that I let my New Holland TC33DA which I so badly miss now. But needed a truck as took earlier retirement and well life changes though Covid was not in my plans nor hurricane Idalia which I had to add a Stihl-FS91R and Stihl- MS250 to my work arsenal of tools which makes you video worth their weight in gold for me. As got the MS250 and went to use it the first day after my daughter got here with it from GA (getting one near me in FL was like 3 day wait as everyone was buying everything after the hurricane even oil was hard to find as well) But it would not start and wore me down trying to crank it so had to stick with Old Milwaukee battery 16" which was a lifesaver but not heavy duty like the MS250. as had some big stuff to take out and a few that had to double cut to get through a few bigger trees. Overall a great saw for me as I think it will all I will every need now as storm got most all my big oaks though sadly lost a lot of my shade. But can't complain as house and everything else made it through the storm even though some of my taller oaks took out a section of our power companies solar farm panels. Tried to get them to take them out way back when they started but contractor they had said he couldn't do it. Even power company thought it would be okay to leave but as they found out I was right as I've watched these trees since I bought the land and knew it was better to take them out which they did listen and take out some next to the lines that I had seen the storm almost take them out as well. Sorry maybe TMI But back to your video on showing how to crank a Stihl was a life saver. You'd think Stihl would have a foot note added in manual for this trick of full choke one two three pulls and sometimes a attempt to start but if not half choke NO more full choke pulls as if not flooding every time and no cranking at all unless you do some extra work. Which after going to half choke after three pulls it will crank every time. Got that info stored in the old brain now as old school guy learn old ways don't always work on stuff nowadays. So far FS91R works well with good priming and using that trick too. Again number 1 Bre as this was like finding gold for me as my help in getting yard cleaned up could only stay a couple of days. Which was really when I missed my NH TC33DA as it had grapples and backhoe which cleanup would have only lasted for a couple of days instead of about 3 weeks. But gotta er dun and thanks a whole lot again Bre as loved this video and why OEM is always a better choice as can save things and without a lot of headache in the long run as well. Be safe Bre and thanks again for the awesome tips and videos

Thanks much! 😊

Excellent video...thx Bre

The xray bit was funny; all I kept thinking was "chicken nuggets" :)

I bought an aftermarket carb for my Ryobi blower. It didn't work, but what I did was to take the diaphragm and gaskets out and put them in the original carb and it runs like a champ. So it wasn't a total loss anyway.

Super genius, thanks for the info you the best!!

I'd love to see some part interchange videos. For example, I have a Maruyama from a dumpster. A nice trimmer and it runs well but The easy start spring was broken and I screwed it down but it grinds. A new recoil setup is $30. It's one of those things where I already have so many but it would be nice to have this one going without spending. Tough luck.

Wow I’m in Arkansas too! (LR) and I used to be a member of the Central Ark. Corvette Club with my C5. You do a really great job. Just started following you recently. Your delivery is easy to listen to and follow. You explain stuff so well even I can fix something after you explain it! Have you done a video on different ways to change oil in a Brigs and Stratton mower? Thanks for all the good lessons and tips. Where’s your shop located?

15:50 That was really cool of them to give you a deal on plastic parts bins. Goes to show even after being a business partner for years they still will bend over backwards to support you. You can't buy that.

The world needs more Chickanics!

Great channel especially if you're I terested in 2-cycle engine diagnostics and repair, she has you covered. But, what I appreciate most is her likes to various tools (i.e., Borescopes, tachometers, speed-loader heads. Oh, and Wera tools! Thanks for lighting off another addiction in my personality, but I can safely say, this one is relatively hamless.

Reminds me of 20 years ago the saying you get what you pay for is back in style! I find alot of oem auto store part for are hit and miss on how long they will last. I try to pay more and go with actual auto dealer parts!

I have had really good success with most aftermarket parts I install over the years. No complaints or comebacks due to bad parts. That is not luck or a "one off." OEM parts are often ridiculously expensive with not much in the way of quality as a benifit.

You are awesome. I love watching your show. You always have such great information. Keep it up, Chickanic.

Yes you helping a lot thank you

That's so funny I'm watching this thinking. What about the cheap shut off valves I found cheap on ebay and all of a sudden you ease my worries.