Another great video Chris. Not many people are bringing these old mowers back from the dead any longer. You have a knack for getting them back, and I love it! Keep um coming!
So I got one of these yesterday. My brother called me and said “ hey the neighbor lady put this out to the curb for trash and I grabbed it cause I thought you might want to look it over” I got to his house and said “ holy cow” the main jet in the side of the pickup tube was clogged solid. It took me about ten minutes to have it purring like a kitten. Every thing on it works perfect. Cha Ching. Luck
Hey hi. When I engage the blades I hear this weird pinging noise. I don’t think it is the clutch though. It could be but it sounds like an octane engine ping it so weird. Any ideas?
Hands down the John Deere 14SB/14SE and JX75/JE75 are probably the best 21 inch walk behind mowers ever manufactured. 2 of the 3 I have still start 1st pull after almost 25-30 years!
@@ChrisXOutdoors I was going to say I saw another yellow Deere wheel and some silver hiding in the background! I have 3 of them. 2 work, the 3rd has a broken mower deck. The grass bag you have is quite the rare bag because of the placement of the John Deere logo toward the back top of the bag. That was pictured on the original owners manual and was probably from one of the 1st 1988 14SB's off the line! Most bags the Deere logo is larger and placed towards the center and side of the bag. That machine is probably a 1993 or 1994?
They produced the silver 14SB from 1988 to 1997. Then they became the green JX75 from 1997-2003. All had Kawasaki FC150V model engines. Then from 2004-2006 the JX75 got a slight redesign of the deck and had the Kawasaki FJ180V model engines until they were discontinued.
@@ChrisXOutdoors Very very true! Then I guess were 8 years overdue for a 50th anniversary gold edition one then because the silver ones were originally introduced for the 25th anniversary of Deere making lawn mowers in 1988.
Jai une 14 SB qui a environs 38 ans les premières vendues en France .Cette tondeuse est incroyable de robustesse . Jai changé 2 fois les roulements de l embrayage de lame et plusieurs lames Le moteur est increvable :
Good rule of thumb.. for any adjustment screw you remove. Turn it inward until it lightly seats (don’t tighten too much). Count how many turns it goes in and remember the number. When reinstalling, turn it in all the way back inward to lightly seated, then turn out how many it was originally at. Hope that makes sense. Hard to fully unpack in a response beyond that but there are a TON of great videos on adjustments out there. Some may even be specific to your machine. The adjustment fundamentals are similar across machines.
Damn! I inherited one of these from my wife’s grandfather. It was going in the trash. Best running mower I’ve ever owned. It needs a good tune up though. I might try these things. I was going to replace the spark plug. What did you do to the spark plug? And was there no fuel filter so you added one? Would break clear work to clean the parts? Very nice video !
You saved one of the greatest mowers ever made. JD hasn't made walk behind mowers in the US since about 2002. And they don't make them like this anymore. I just learned that Honda has stopped making walk behind mowers. This is troubling as the China made junk invasion is running all others out of the business.
Hi update 1 year later, I bought a ja65 green deck john deere with the Kawasaki engine on it and a JX85 with a Kawasaki engine on it both run fantastic, Ive never had any issuses with starting them, cut grass awesome best mowers I ever bought, only thing I did have to replace on both machines was the self propell cable, not sure if its a thing due to age of macines but replaced it and back to cutting grass, be safe people.
Thank for the update Dave! Not surprised that they are both strong runners. And I’d also agree.. they are the best cutting mowers I’ve ever used as well
Simple green and distilled water. About 10% simple green, 90% water. I think you can go all the way up to 50/50 but I don’t know if it makes a big difference
I've had 3 a early 4.5 hp 14sb for parts. a mid-series 5.0 hp that's worn out and a 2006 jx75 with the 6.75 fc180 engine but it rarely gets used because our small yard so I use a 1968 lawnboy instead.
What a fantastic video! Your Video skills are awesome. As a past 14SB, JX75, and current JX85 owner I concur, these older Kawasaki powered Mowers are the best out there and last forever. Keep up the great work.
Very nice repair and restoration I liked how there wasn’t any music till the end. I also enjoyed your silence cuz a lot of people ramble on with time wasting dumb shit blah blah blah. Thanks again!
@@ChrisXOutdoors thank you, for your reply back yo me it really helped me out as I saw one for sale but shipping would be a bit expensive but would it be worth it to grab it as its only one for sale? that I've seen and it does need some work to it like wheels are Balld and possibly engine work.
@@ChrisXOutdoors that's great to know, are parts hard to get for this machine? and also your machine is the rare tricycler with the super rate black stripped bag.
I don't know if I would say that it is hard to get them, Guess it just depends if anyone is selling them on ebay, etc. Generally a few of them pop up in my area every year that could be good parts machines for anywhere from $40-$75
I have the same mower I got for free. Cleaned the carb and pretty much same as you did. But, it will only start with starting fluid then quits. Maybe I didn't remove all the carb jets??? I'll have to check that again. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Nothing runs like deer. Mine bought 1989 14sb put new ngk plug every yr clean air filter too put jd oil in dealer 30 weight john deer oil now 10 w 30 jd change air filter new yr
