Recent content by legdelimber

Hmm. Without seeing the vid, just the noise would have had me wanting to check a radiator fan~water pump.

Nice finds. I don't think I've ever seen an older yard vac that the rodents haven't chewed holes into the bag.. That one's old enough to have a Tecumseh engine. 143.xxxxxxx conversion fun. Most of those Tecumseh fixed jet carbs engines wont crank without an air filter element in place. You...

Craigslist ads and people. I asked about a saw by name and model, that was in the picture. Absolutely nothing else mentioned or shown in the listing or discussed in email. Bit over an hour drive later, I get there and the guy brings out a 42cc Craftsman/Poulan. So where's the saw in the ad...

I appreciate the the offer of the carb! But my health has made me need to hire the yardwork done over the last couple of seasons. Unless some surgeries fix things, not sure how much more I'll get to go play with the OPE at this point. The pb-500 is an interesting design though. The cylinder...

Saw Spatz? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spats_%28footwear%29

Looks to be that one. it's got the air valve built into the top "cover" of the carburetor. They were priced at $150 or more, back when I was fooling with that blower. Every bit of my OPE stuff is sort of crammed in at another location now.

The trouble with getting the screws out was with the burrs digging into the carb body. I expect that the burrs get folded back when the screw is run in upon assembly. Thus making them a royal problem to try backing out, as they just dig into the hole and mess up the threads. I tried to look...

Is the screw cross drilled with a plastic insert pressed into the hole? The Walbro carb on the Echo pb-500 blowers had those type of screws. Walbro didn't do any de-burring of the screws and they tore a lot of the threads out of the carb body when I was trying to remove them. I had a post...

I gotta ask. Does JC Whitney have a chrome plated Raccoon screen to fit those hood pipes?

Like Lehman says, it adds up. We always figured about .017 per inch of distance, for one degree out of square. I milled tapered bars in an electric motor repair shop and that was my rule of thumb for picking an angle to start a test cut on a scrap.

I do see a Briggs logo in the casting. I'm gonna guess that Sears wasn't helpful? https://www.searspartsdirect.com/model/4dqqyfwdsq-000247/craftsman-247795950-chipper-shredder-parts We used to have to flip through a large book to cross reference the Sears/Craftsman engines. Tecumseh built a...

Did you pick around the threads of the spark plug hole? Wouldn't take much of a booger where the threads run out into the chamber, to get loose and stuck by a ring or on the side of the piston. Before mounting the cylinder... Might run a long reach spark plug in the hole and back out. Then...

I always look for any signs of the spark having a pathway down the insulator. On some of the ones that failed, I bent the ground strap outwards away from the center electrode. Gives a gap of around .180 to .200 of an inch. Then do the spark check again with the plug against the engine block...

Mostly Champion Spark Plugs, resistor type gave problems About 10~12 years ago, I started having miss fire/skipping issues with Briggs powered mowers and Champion plugs. Hard starting also. meaning several pulls . Typically my mowers start on the first or second pull after dry winter storage...

At what point (dollars to repair) would your insurer consider the truck as total loss? Say if you had the truck and somehow it were damaged. Say a collision or tree falls on it or vandalism? Has the truck come close to that point yet? If so, might want to mention that to the dealer and...