went shopping during a lacal town wide yard sale but the weather kept allot of them closed, l did find a roto tiller and a push mower that need some help. lets see if they are worth fixing.
Good work. I wish mustie would have been on the internet when I maintained my grandpas garden machines. Or indeed that there would have been internet at all.
good job! i don’t like those plastic carbs one time i was trying to start my friends lawnmower didn’t start in 2 years and the carb flooded through i’m the intake and caught fire and i’m only 15
Hi Mustie...here's something you can do with your junk mowers...pull the motor off it. Make a plywood table slightly larger than the mower is. Make a frame with 2x4's and screw them to it, so you have a wooden cart with 2x4 sides. Bolt it directly to the deck of the mower. Cut out for the handles in the back area. Paint with an oil-based paint. (you may have to space areas so you have one bolt on each corner.) Purpose: the inside of the cart area has a LOW CENTER OF GRAVITY. The lawnmower was designed to be on the ground...so you can transport a large poundage of weight without it toppling over, as in a wheelbarrow). I've carried bags of fertilizer, bags of cement, bags of dogfood, packs of roofing, etc. I once carried an outboard motor fro my car to my boat and I built one for a mechanic buddy, that used his to carry engine blocks. The uses are endless! It helps to have holes drilled in the side rails so you can rope taller things down. Folks will give you junk lawnmowers, but they're tickled to give you $30.00 for a carry-all. you can make for pennies out of scrap 5/8" OSB plywood and one 2X4.a little hardware and some paint. ((I once pulled one of the old type small wheelbarrows apart, because the tubular frame and wheel were shot, and made a DUMP-BED with it onto an old mower base. worked great to mix cement in with a hoe & roll it to where you were needing the mud and pour it directly from low to the ground without worrying about it tipping to the side)) Folks see them and scrap DIY one themselves and find that they are most handy! I hope you get one of these going for yourself! AGAIN, I VERY MUCH APPRECIATE YOU MAKING THESE WONDERFUL VIDEOS !!! Bill, from Tn. 🇺🇸
Hi Mustie1! I am a retired commercial refrig and A/C mechanic (and you bring back many wonderful memories) What I want to convey to you is that any refrig/A/C unit that has been on i's back, sides or any non-normal position has a good chance of oil clogging up the suction intake tube in the compressor. Since a piston cannot compress a solid, it will lock up and become useless. If you have questions, i'm here to help.
Hey - quick note to Mustie1 to say thanks for all of these videos. After watching many of these, I was able to fix a pressure washer that had been giving me trouble. Since the carb seems to be the first place to check, I took it off and gave it a good cleaning. After that, it worked fine but ran rich. Again, your videos helped me understand that I had hooked a linkage back in the wrong place - choke always on - so 15 min later it was all running perfectly. Seriously, thanks again!
Simon from the UK here, well my brother.what a pleasure it is to watch you at work and teaching us all in a manner which we can understand. Love your dog and my Jack Russell likes ice-cream as well. Pleased you found a back pack blower as I've got one that is playing up. See you on the next one.😋
Nice score on the tiller. I picked up a 1960’s tiller a few years ago. The thing is built like a tank. Also snagged a newer troy bilt mower from my bro in law that was completely rusted out with a 6.75hp engine that was a perfect swap for the one on my log splitter. It’s amazing the kind of things you can find from people who just don’t know how to work on these things. Love your videos btw. Keep ‘em comin’
You've answered the question I've been wanting to ask for the longest time about whether you use a mic or not, because I've never seen you wearing one. Your voice and ambient sounds seem to always be clear and natural. And seeing Lilly dog enjoy her ice cream was worth the price of admission right there. :o)
That windscreen may have been a pain to fit, but it was really worth it. The Li'l red bus is looking great, and it seems you;re having fun with it! Love your vids Mustie, always look forward to them.
On the AC unit "that season is coming very shortly" Here in western Oklahoma that season has been here for a month or so, lol. It's been in the 90's every day for a few weeks now. I will say though I'll take the hot weather as opposed to your winters any day! I used to live in Minnesota, I hate winter! I have the exact same window unit and it works great! Great video!!
Thanks Mustie.. made morning. Also thanks for talking about the waste liquids. Down here in Tennessee many people just spill their waste on the ground or on the side of the road.
I trash picked an old Craftsman eager 1 that had a self propel system...it didn't show how ff'ed it was until I had tried to get it running...sheared keyway simple...oil sump had a hairline crack near one of the mounting bolts to the mower deck didn't notice that until I remade the sump gasket and put fresh oil in it... New head gasket to boot. Needless to say if I didn't actually need the mower myself it would have been a parts mower...spent nearly 100$ on it to get it running but it does indeed eagerly cut my grass now with no issues. All thanks to the confidence your channel has given me to tackle some small engine repair work. P.s. I have an old single blade plow with a Clinton engine on it...that's my next project 🤗
I'm so happy you did another one of these because believe it or not last night and this morning was literally binge watching these videos 😂. Another masterpiece well done 😀👍
I won't go into the details for the sake of brevity, but thanks to you and a couple of other guys on RU-vid, I was able to fix my lawn mower when it quit in the middle of cutting my lawn. It would have been out of service for four or five days without learning from your videos. Thanks a lot!
I always check yard sales. Win some lose some, that's fine. Sell one you fix and get the parts off another that's no good. .....ice cream and doggy bones for your pooch? Gotta love it. Thx
Hey Darren.....please someday do a preassure washer pump fix for us idiots that didn't purge it for the winter.There are some on RU-vid but I only would trust you.Or at least explain what breaks on the pump.....Thanks # 614 here thumbs up
Using Mustie as my motivation, I got a mower running yesterday that had not been started in ten years. It was frozen solid and would not turn. I put some oil in the spark plug hole and used a breaker bar with a socket to force it turn over. The carb looked ok so I put some starting fluid in it and it fired on the first pull. Runs great and I mowed s thick weeds with it. Thanks Mustie
A mustie1 video with a cliffhanger..... excellent. Your videos are a highlight of the week.... never before has someone moving some cars around and then playing with a dog being so entertaining
Around here , the gas will pull the moisture in and cause many problems on small engines . I now drive about 10 miles away to buy premium no alcohol gas . If you have to use gas with alcohol , use Star Tron additive . Works well . I can't believe my neighbor ladies listened to me and ran all the gas out of their mowers at end of mowing season last year . I have not had to tear any carbs off of their mowers this year ! Did you ever notice how many people that have front tine rototillers do not have , or know what a depth regulator ( skegg ) is . I borrowed my neighbors and it did not have one , so I made one for it . I noticed it is missing now . At the least , I would like to have the 1/2" X 3" steel back !
We have Bonfire Night (Guy Fawkes night) 5th November - I think that's where all the old gas goes here in the UK! Also a lot of pallets unfortunately! Great vid, you truly are the 'engine whisperer', thanks!
Just a piece of advice from someone who learned the hard way - always place compressor driven units (A/C, refrigerators, freezers, etc,) in their upright positions for a few hours before starting to allow the oil that is in the system to settle back into the compressor. Failure to do so could fry the compressor if it hydrolocks (happened to me on a brand new unit similar to yours). Obviously you dodged that one...this time! lol
Ok so I’ve hooked watching your channel I love how you explain everything its to the point know that I buy old lawnmowers and jet skis so I can work on them with no knowledge at all just what I learned from you cause you look so happy doing it thank you for the videos and help
Mustie, you should totally use the mower engine to rebuild that gokart frame you got earlier. I know it's a vertical shaft, but that's the fun. Use a twisted pulley setup, or a double pulley setup like the fan belt in the old Corvair's if you want it to be possible to add reverse or something. It would be a really cool thing to see made, and probably pretty fun to build too!
I am now happily retired and spend my days scrapping and now, repairing small engine equipment, and I work with what I find. Thanks for all your info and videos.
Those AC units are pretty decent. I've got a extremely similar model. It's almost 10 years old still works great. Kind of nice it has a automatic option, also a timer which is nice. So you can set the temperature that you want set it for 8 hours. And when the 8 hours passes it will automatically come on and start cooling the room down. Pretty nice. Came with a remote too that had a magnet on it. Other people have mentioned it but I think if you sit in AC unit on its side like that You need to let it sit in the correct orientation for a few hours to let the oil settle back into the compressor
I'm far from as skilled as you are Mustie. But I just had to clean out a carb on a pressure washer for a friend and it looked identical to that one. Picked up a rebuild kit for a briggs for 9 bucks and kept it running while the owner was ready to write it off. Feels great to keep things going. The problem with it was that the float needle seat had deteriorated into itself and was blocking gas from coming in at all. Because of that, I had to buy at least the seat but the gaskets were so hard, it didn't hurt to replace them.
First time I've seen an AC unit up close, Nice score. you don't see many of them here in the UK, $9 a gallon is what we pay for regular gas here, it really hurts the wallet to fill up.
Big win on the tiller..and sometimes that happens w/the mower, been burned myself by what I didn't see until I got into it. Actually need a couple parts off 1 of those myself for another, so would use it for that. And it might be the only straight Craftsman wheels you run into this year! Nice pickup of the backpack blower after taking Lilly for ice-cream, those always sell well in the fall.
You need a head mount so you can be hands free like ahe good dumpster divers do. But you videos are good so I understand where you're coming from, Mr Mustie.
I like cramming...like cramming for a test...watch several Mustie videos in a row...that drives out the blahs! There's something about that guy that just MAKES you feel better!
Mustie1 been watching some of your older videos like this one. I get a lot of old gas as well I got a 5-gallon bucket that I save it in (Unless it's really old skunky gas)Then when I am ready to fill up my own gas cans, I run the old gas through a few extra large coffee filters, being careful not to stir up any water that's settled out. then I just fill my gas cans up about 1/3 of the way and go top them off with reg unleaded gas. I have never had any issue using up old gas this way. I just make sure I don't use it in any 2 cycle engines. mowers and edgers run on it just fine. I consider it Free gas
look at those tangs the machine has about what 5 working hrs. paint still on tangs that cleaning fluid kills lungs kidneys liver we love your videos!! stay alive for next 100 years warrre gloves!!! i have 3 close friends that died from not wearing gloves !!
Your so funny with your comments, you make me laugh. "not the kind of item you want patina on it", Im in the UK and I just love you guys over there, I have so much fun with Y'all
Hi Mustie1, just scored a free power washer because owner didn’t want to pay the price to get it running again. It clearly had sat unused for a while. So, went into full Mustie mode. Emptied tank into large glass container and must have been half a cup of water at bottom. Removed float bowl of nice Honda engine and bowl was heavily rusted and eaten up inside. Found a genuine Honda original replacement carb on Amazon for $18 and decided cleaning old one was wasted energy. Purged out fuel lines and stop cock, slapped on new carb, dried out the tank, added clean gas and she runs like new. Pump was recently replaced so it was excellent. Probably why the owner was done spending money on it. I stripped the bypass valve anyway and cleaned. Total cost about $20 tops. Following the Mustie Method works. I like the “will it run” items as that is what most people are faced with. I like to hear your mental process as to whether continuing is worth it. Even duds have learning value! Best from Texas!
I had to check my garage - I have both this tiller and mower. The tiller is missing the drag bar too. The plastic gas tank cracked and Briggs wanted like $70 for a replacement so I got a new engine at Harbor Freight with a metal tank that actually runs better for about $90. The mower on the other hand has been very reliable other than leaking oil all over the place. It fired up with 3 year old gas on the first pull but last year I thought I killed it when I ran it out of oil from the leaks. I filled it back up with oil and it runs but not as peppy as before so I probably did some internal damage. It has sounded like it was getting ready to throw a rod for several years so I may be able to milk another year out of it before it dies. I already have a Harbor Freight replacement ready. I have the high rear wheel model and the deck is all steel unlike the new ones where the front wheels on mounted on plastic so I’d like to keep it running.
Lamans Waters It's also the same engine used on my wood chipper/leaf mulcher (only difference is the tapered shaft crank used for the impeller/Flywheel)
Another old timer's trick if a bowl o-ring or rubber gasket gets expanded is to put it in a container of boiling water for like 15 minutes and that will shrink them down again.
I had (well, I still have...) a mower similar to that (same engine I believe? - but FWD) and though it's currently destined for scrap (my brother hit a stump with it and I fear the crank is bent or lower half is cracked) it was also a "Used it last year, just got a new one!" I got it "running" back then but it sounded like absolute garbage. Turns out the flywheel key was sheared and thus timing was off. Also the previous owner had ruined most of the threads up there and I had to lose a washer in order to get enough torque on the flywheel up there (even after mating/lapping the taper carefully) for it to stop shearing flywheel keys. I guess I learned a lot... and it did last me a few years until that aforementioned mishap with a nasty tree stump.
I have the same lawn mower, but with RWD, maybe 15 years old and still running with hardly any demand for repairs except oil change, sharpen the blade, and spark plug change out. Sometime I get a little miss and I just add Sea Foam to the Crankcase oil and fuel tank and the miss clears itself and off I go. You got a good eye finding stuff wrong. YOU CAN DO IT!
Liking your videos. Learned a lot and these things will come to use. Just the otherday when i was lawing down the grass i had a problem with this loud rattling on a lawnmover after hitting on a few rocks and sticks.. I was almost throwing it to the neighbours side, but cracked open a beer and did kinda what Mustie would do. Figured out on my own. Easy fix. Loose blade and it was about 5 min job including finding the right tool for tighening that fucker. Thank you. You have so good nerves for these things and these videos have helped me to be more patient. (Sorry about bad english)
Mr. Mustie. The man with the golden nose when it comes to sniffing gas to determine if it's spunky or good. Why, he can often even determine it's octane rating. Carb gremlins had better run for the hills when Mustie gets started detecting a carb's problems.
