How To Lower a Lawn Tractor as Low as Possible Pt. 9 

I usually like to put the fuel cutoff before the fuel filter. It makes it less messy to replace the filter.

Polished wheels n clear headlights ❤️

Okay you’ve got me interested in my Craftsman Lawn Tractor again. I guess I better teach myself to weld, but what better way than on an inexpensive project like this.

Great fun! Thanks for the video.

Pretty cool 😎 cant wait to get my Murray done .building it for drag racing.great videos

Happy i came across this channel!! Doing a wheelhorse mud mower Vtwin swap on my channel. I think this will be my next budget tinker time project!

Tow hook, small led bar behind headlight housing(Healdlight restore factory headlight lense), steering wheel upgrade? Polished wheels as said by beatboy 100% 🔥.

The great content just keeps on coming!...Thanks again!

Very very nice. MUCH LOVE.

I just binged this project. Well done sir. Having to choke the carb means it does not have enough fuel. One thing to try is to drill the Carb jet one size larger than it is with a micro drill bit. This will give you a little more fuel. Worked for me. Great project brother looking forward to the paint. Take care.

Great video series, very thought provoking, cheers. I can see me in the dog house real soon.

Really cool and great work.

I've never seen BBS type wheels on a lawn mower, that would be intresting. DIY BBS wheels on lawn mower? Great content keep it up!

Dude I'm watching this I'm Subscribed totally awesome build !

Having to use the choke is indicative of a lean condition…and in your carb tear down, it appears you didn’t remove the float and check for any obstruction in the needle and seat assembly, some carbs have a screen that catches debris prior to entering the fuel bowl area. Check your float drop and level too. The soot on your spark plug could be from an over rich condition (as in using the choke) or insufficient spark…just to name a few possibilities. Learn more about carbon makers (carburetors) before throwing money into another…a headache that could turn into a nightmare! Check the flywheel key, I’ve seen where the key didn’t shear but was offset enough to throw it out of time…creating a host of calamities! Just some food for thought…anyway, cool build, good luck 👍

More power!

Setting the idle with the breather off is going to require some choke. The carb is getting full air supply and it's usually restricted some by the air box. Sweet hot rod tho

Crazy cool 😂

2 things,,make a 90 cut on your shifter,run it out so its past your thigh,do a 45 and it should be better,,make a piston shift knob,lol,that's one sweet machine

That is something I could really use, make life easier. Great videos.

10 years ago i bought an old 4 post hoist, i soon fabricated some small ramps and rails to got across the inside of the main rails , i can drive my Murrays on from the side, and the wheels just fit either side, so i can remove the bridge rails and clean underneath and inspect for damage. i'm only 56, but getting down on the floor is beyond my current health, so the hoist is worth every dollar i paid for it.

I also have a much older murry im playing with,so far sectioned the rear body fenders down low over stick 18s,,has a 17Hp tachcumsa ,,but a hydro rear end,,hope to find a r or 6 spd for it

That thing is bad ass! Love it.

The surging of the engine is probably a vacuum leak in the carb. Great videos man, keel it up

Hey I don't know if it would help any but I learned this the hard way with those gravity fed single cylinder carburetors they don't like sucking gas to those huge filters you want a small one like the red one you pulled off

Needs air-fuel adjustment if it was that black with soot. I'd move the shifter to the center support for the steering. Just need a longer rod and another pivot point to join them. For the seat area, I would cut a 45-deg "mud guard" bevel, since there is a lot of dead-space under that narrow seating gap. Some back-side 1/3 mud-guard wheel-wells for the front would make it look cool too. It will stop the wheel from throwing stones and mud at your face, muffler and boots, while driving. I would have made leg extensions so my feet were closer to the front wheels, for comfort. I know you were going to try and use a lot of the stock locations, but it just doesn't suit the lowered seating and function.

Looks like a poor man’s sprint car!😂

I bought a new Briggs OEM carb for my 2011 Craftsman 46" deck tractor mower because a neighbor who was helping me lost an internal part or two. We found a tiny one on the ground, but at least one other part was missing. Without a complete carb and everything where it's supposed to be, I didn't attempt a rebuild kit and didn't want to take a chance on a cheap replacement. This one was running great, so the recent rough starting and idling may be old gas, which I thought I put Sta-Bil in. I never heard of Mikuni, so if I ever need another new carb, I'll look at theirs. I won't be hot rodding, but a performance carb couldn't hurt. However, I'll maintain the new Briggs like you're doing, cleaning it, and a rebuild kit would be an option, if ever needed. This one was $165, maybe with tax, at a parts shop. I wonder what a Mikuni would cost. Your carb was running with the old gas and you adjusted the idle on it then, so maybe it needs to be adjusted again. Did you clean all the tiny port holes in the emulsion tube? It usually unscrews with a flat blade from the top. Just run a small wire, like for a bread tie, through all the holes and use something similar in larger holes. An Ultrasonic Cleaner may help. Put the carb and internal parts in a ziplock with solution and then put that in the Ultrasonic Cleaner. An Ultrasonic Cleaner is only supposed to have water in the tank, but the ziplock will allow that and still have the carb and parts in a cleaning solution.

Great video, you can also put everything back on and spary the carb with brake cleaner while it's running. It will tell ya if you have a vacuum leak.

Fuel filter you put on is for a fuel pump system the micron count is wrong and doesn’t allow fuel to flow freely where as the red filter basically is just a screen and allows free flow of fuel. Ram into that a few times working at the dealer.

I’m coming to your last couple vids on this project now - is the project all tidied up now or have you moved to the next project? I gotta say well done - you must be happy with the sub and view counts, I see the subs have gone up 1k since I first noticed your channel a few weeks back. It is a cool project and you’ve done well with the video creation I reckon, I hope you plan to keep doing it 👍 And maybe you have a vacuum leak too (can require the choke to be on a bit to idle) hit the manifold with some ether while running it (but watch for those exhaust sparks 😉)

Black carbon on spark plug is caused by incorrect air fuel mixture. New carb 25$. Non methanol fuel sets up in carb without stabilizing it. Try sea foam from the parts store. Sometimes that will work. Our racing carbs are pretty sensitive, factory carbs not so bad.

YOO!! i TOTALLY RECOGNISE THIS PARKING LOT! Are yall in North KC off of Burnet?

What is the carb you were talking about? Very cool project!

What's the engine size on that To me that carburetor looks awfully small for that kind of engine needs a bigger one

Has came a long way

A billet aluminum gas cap would look good on there

How fast does it go

Oversized the jet jet might be too small If you have a jet drill to go ovprecise that's should help because I had a drill my jet out oversized and it ran fine

16:50 when he starts driving it

might be a vacuum leak or sumting with the ignition (being weak and missing ignition at times)

Is it just me or shouldn't the shut off valve be closer to the tank so you can shut the fuel off instead of draining tank to change filter?

You bought 1 gallon of stright ethanol free gas, but what you got was about 1/2 A gallon of ethanol fuel if the last person bought regularly gas. The hose on the pump serves all fuel types. What you should do is fill up your car or truck with ethanol free gas then fill your 1 gallon container so you use up everything in the hose at the pump first. Also unless the filter says flow this way it might be backwards, also because its such a large filter and sideways its filling up with air pockets and the carb bowl is running low on gasoline the filter should be installed so its always full, close to the tank like right under it. Last clean the carbon out of the combustion chamber and off the valves try some seafoam yes like a car, water will also burn it off. Last change the oil and filter. And paint this thing. Murry rat racer.

Get a sonic parts cleaner for your carb O/H

It's running realy lean. Up a jet size or two.

You are having to choke it because with the free flowing exhaust it once more fuel. A larger jet will probably fix it.

Bigger jets

That's direct evidence that it's running too lean. If that cab has a mixture screw turn it in more and see if you can get it to smooth out with no choke.

Get rid of the governor. Typically u don’t hear the governor kicking in and out. It’s set at the right speed. But u changed the spring.

LED HEADLIGHTS AND TAIL LIGHTS WITH BRAKE LIGHTS. ALL LED. New headlight cover out of lexan its not hard to bend.

Low 2-3 pound electeic fuel pump might help it gwt a little more gas

Main jet stopped up

Don't you know that the ground wire is the first one off and the last one on ??

I like the Idea of lowering the tractor, But I would put a Horizontal shaft engine on it, with a Torque Converter, and direct drive it to a solid rear axle, and put the smallest sprocket you can find for the axle, that would give you maximum top end speed, but that's just me !

May be the wrong fuel filter

20 mins I'll never get back

Your mis matched front tires are irritating my ocd. 😁Sorry if I missed it but how does the gearing work when you’re running the transaxle essentially backwards?

You do not use a wire On the jets you use a torch

You might have a shear pin, under your flywheel, bad. If it had hit something in its previous life. This will change your timing.

Your fuel tank may be low enough it is starving for fuel. try filling the tank.

Says how to lower lawnmower not clean carburetor

Take the new VW fuel filter off, with your mouth "only" blow into the red fuel filter, put it back on the mower, it should run fine. You can not replace a red filter with the VW filter ! When it works, go get a new RED filter. Work Safe, Be Well Enjoy Life

It's really interesting you obviously have a little fabrication skill but can't set the idle on a carburator. You have the idle speed set too low. There's no point in doing anything if your running it partial choke, that's how you get fouled plugs. None of this is abnormal though, people do much worse. Maybe you figured it out in a later video?

Man looks good But spending that much time and effort to just cruise around at 10 mph max speed is not worth the effort in my opinion!! Also as many times you remove the body could have rattle can paint the body, and change out front tires to smaller those just look out of place. But like I said just my opinion

Now to change the pullys so it'll go faster.