It’s Americans who don’t know how to tighten a bolt or drain gas. They just curb them for someone to pickup or for the garbage truck and then they buy a new one
Great save. My lawn boy also had numerous safety's. Consider adding some brass brushes and emery cloth so your repertoire of tools. Cleaning the shaft on the starter drive and some 3in1 should keep it starting smooth for a long time.
Good job. The consumer lawn equipment business would go bankrupt if they had to rely only on mowers wearing out instead of clueless owners who screw them up.
I just remove and kit the carbs If engine junk I remove carbs and dump fuel out and into zip lock bags with information on engine size 😊 Very few people will have the electric start fixed but they sale good if they do 😊
A Rural Vermonter - Qqjmcb 182 absolutely. I have a 4 year old lawnboy that wouldn't start. Took it for repairs . The carburetor was full of gunk. Now I only use super grade gas. Not only that . To my astonishment it is made in friggin China.
yeah the damn chinese items are never any good. My toro was made in america, and so were my chevy's, and they are all over 17 years old and they work great. My welder i got from a cheap chinese knockoff and it has already given me tons of issues!
Check leakdown to check rings, valves, and head gasket. Change the oil. Tune the engine. Change the blade. Adjust idle adjustments. Remove the flywheel and replace the top seal and replace the lower seal.
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Good find on that fancy pants mower. Plenty of oil in it. Ha ha, 1st pull! Free VW coming too. Awesome. Hot pink hack and the starter's working. LOL! Nice job bud.
Quick note, always check the blade, sometimes people leave them loose or off completely, if it doesn't have a blade it wont run, the blade has a flywheel effect on the engine, plus if its loose it's a safety issue. I've seen mowers not run because the blade was so worn down.
I know this is an old video but where do you find lawnmowers and such? I would love to start doing this more often but can’t seem to find em like you do! I just got a ryobi 4 stroke weed eater working and really enjoyed it, the money too lol. Anyway i enjoy watching all your vids, they’ve taught me a LOT, even though i think we’re about the same age. Thanks for spreading your knowledge
Great video........I also watch a guy in NH his channel is Mustie1 and he fixes about anything.Really into VWs and odd things people send him to fix.The coolest thing I saw Mustie1 do was he flew on a jet to somewhere....and took his Garmin GPS from his car and it was reading 478 MPH....what a hoot.Oh BTW....I was #78 thumbs up
I've had a few free mowers where the previous owner overfilled it with oil, it's not hard to check oil in a mower yet people still overfill them and then their mower smokes real bad and they think there is something serious wrong with the mower so they throw it out and get a new one and the process eventually repeats lol.
Not sure it it's weight on that catchbag safety that makes it work...it looks more electrical...like something iron has to be in the groove. Theory easily tested with something non-iron in the groove.
Where do you guys find all of these trash mowers? Only way I can get them is to post on nextdoor. Nobody ever puts anything at the curb for whatever reason.
I find them at the dump, if you watch this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YLg_rN_uc5k.html and go 42 seconds in, I show where I get them.
You know what oneself learned from watching this video here ? People are just not willing to take the fix their own junk , so people go out and buy more junk because this is how our society teaches us huh , throw out what we cannot fix for those of us that do not want to learn how to repair their own equipment huh .
Yes, you could pull the starter cord , but not all users can. Age demographics and operational convenience is part of marketing, not all units come with this feature. Many users have limited use of hands, or shoulders. The very reason why at least one neighbor has a similarly equipped unit.
You should go back to the address and the mower and say hey why did she throw this this out while covertly recording them act like you did nothing to it just put gas in it
Where in the world do you guys live that you keep finding mowers in the trash. in fucking Houston can't even find trash in the trash let alone mowers and weed eaters or anything .
lol i live in vermont, i find all my stuff at my local scrapyard. I'm friends with the owner and he lets me take mowers for free because I drop off so much scrap metal to him.
