As another Lame Cherry exlcusive in matter anti matter.
So I got two rototillers from JYG, well actually 3. Probably have #4 as he is intent on selling me a BIG ONE, maybe get a snowblower too. Who knows when it is the adventures of JYG.
So they are old most of them. I love the old Briggs engines on them. they are so chic.
So one I will put an electric motor on as I read in the Farm Show which I found online.
This though is about a common problem which has stunned me in how it is fixed.
So in pull type small motors, you always bust the cord or the cord refuses to engage the engine.............sometimes they will not rewind, but that is a different part that is broken.
Mine though would not engage the engine, and it did when I got it for a few enough pulls to know it would run half assed.
I think this is more for PB than most people, and maybe he knows this, but I was mentioned to JYG again about that pull rope not engaging. So he says to me. "Oh I just run some oil down the rope into the mechanism, and the oil keeps the rope from breaking too. NEVER pull to the end of the rope as that is why you break them."
I thanked hiim and thought, "I hope this works but the Tractor Whisperer never mentioned anything so I thought I still had this problem".
So I get up Sunday morning, go out with a squirt bottle of 10 weight oil, pour more on the platform than the rope, but see that it is not getting in there, so I get the WD 40, and turn the tiller more on it's side so stuff will run in, and give it about 4 foamy shots, pulled the cord a few times and nothing happened.
I frown, but the Holy Ghost says, "Leave it sit for awhile and come back."
So I go and work on the Poulon that died. It would almost run, but just did not make it. I took the carb apart in the diaphragm and that other thing, blew it out, (I should have used my mouth, but I did not want to unhook the old gas line or I probably would have had to replace that.) put carb cleaner into it and that was all I got done as it still would not run.
Got 4 blisters though, thought about getting a Walbro replacment, kept dumping gas into the carb, and it started on idle. Thing never starts on idle and it never runs on idle. I look at it like, "OK at least I got juice going through it."
Got her rebbed up finally and things were working about like before. Put a new chain on, going to get a new air filter or something I will make and see how things go. I do not mind having to prime the girl to make it work, even if it is a hassle.
So I cut a tree that was growing on the power wire, fell over backwards, got scraped and put things away in the shed.
Went over to pull on the roto tiller and by God and JYG, that thing engaged and I was pleased. JYG does not drink beer which makes it hard to give him things of appreciation for solving problems that would be like 30 bucks and hard to find parts.
So that is your million dollar knowledge in now to fix start pulls that do not engage. Just need some lubrication.
So I took TL over to show the amazing fix, and I had put some gas in the tank so when Tractor Whisperer fine tunes things, he will not have to put in gas.
TL pulls it a few times.
I pull the choke just to see, an the old girl fires. I left that victory at that, as TW will be getting two engines that at least fire and run. Make his life easier as he has all these cheap assholes who do not donate to blogs, who get an 85 year old man because he works cheap. This one bastard is a teacher at school, his wife taught too, so they are rolling in retirement bucks and yet they take advantage of TW. He is the one who told me to get vaxed because it was the thing to do. He looks like a blimp now. Hope he dies as TW said he has some tractor TW is fixing......garden tractor.......I can use that.
His wife used to like me as a student even though I was a little perv.
So that is your lesson today in an easy fix which no one seems to know about but JYG, but JYG knows things that TW does not know and vice versa. Love hanging around those guys to watch them work as they do get things running. I'm getting better at it, in I will at least ponder things, try again, take off minor things to get at things AND NEVER MESS AROUND WITH CARB SET SCREWS or stuff inside miniature carbs, so the Poulan 2000 was making running noise sounds again. Can't help it, that was my first chainsaw and I adore the little girl as she behaves very well. Richard and Stephanie helped out with a big one which is like the skid steer, too pretty to do dirty work with, so I get the Poulan fired up and see how things go.
You do have the starter cord figured out and I am betting you are going to find one of these in some junk pile or garage sale cheap, take it home, put on the oil, and it will probably run.
Nuff Said
agtG
