How To Restore a Junk Lawn Mower For Free.

Hey guys, how's it going? I just turned. There was a

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hotel. It has that appearance. We'll see. like a bull actually a decent one late 80's early 90's personal pace let's see if we have anything on the handlebars racing needs free work electric start also keys in it nice rear bag missing a plastic cover for the front here no It looks terrible a couple of pieces are broken with plastic, but hey, the price is okay, okay, let's throw this on the truck, bring it back to the operating table, see what it takes to resuscitate it, okay guys , we get on the bench in this season, spring, everyone tries. taking out their electrical equipment they usually find it difficult to try to get their honor to have any problems with it during the winter most of the time it's bad fuel, but you never know the mice or they just want something new or have something new for Christmas.

Anyway, we're going to see what happened to this one, what it needs, if it can be brought back to life, and if not, we're going to find out what went wrong with it that made it fall to the curb and not be worth fixing. Not anymore, at least for them, so he starts poking around a little. Hey, I haven't done anything with it, so we're watching it all at once. She's a little short. That's ok. She feels good. It doesn't look terribly dirty. It has an electric start, which is good, it is missing, there is a cover that goes here and that disappeared when I want to roll it up on the bench, it has a lot of resistance in the wheels, I don't know if there is a problem with the automatic drive, let's see what We have the gas tank, it's empty, it doesn't smell terrible, which is good, it has a battery, who knows what condition it's in, it's also missing the cap, it looks like there was a cap on top, we're going to take the bagger off, we're going to turn it upside down. side, we're going to grab the air here real quick, yeah, that's had a lot of maintenance, uh, so right there we're going to run it like it has a choke on it, so This is going to make it run well, look at that bagger if you could flip the one over.

It was up and out of there, no bugs in the basket, just last year's grass, hey, and turn it over with the carburetor up generally the way you do it. I want to do it so I don't fill the carburetor with oil. Looking at the platform, it has a lot of broken plastic. The drive belt is still there. The blade has a curve right there. I don't know if that's consistent. on both sides, the rest of the chassis doesn't look too bad. I don't see any cracks or broken areas anywhere on the deck. Let's layer it again, maybe put some fuel in it and see how.

It stayed off or running. I'm going to turn the air filter back on as well to get everything back to how it was. What do you think? Do you think it will turn it on? You think it was one of those that you pull it halfway. a dozen times a dozen times 20 times those are usually the ones that get dropped usually they're still running they get pushed to the ground so it can be hard to get started let's figure out a little bit more than three uh let's drop it. down and the gts means guaranteed start let's find out how many pulls let me see five five or none three made a little chug four there's some kind of white pebbles or something starting to come out of there a little foam or something let's give it a couple more to see if it will work, we will test the key just in case it doesn't, it is not a logical start, I detect that we have a problem, okay, let's open it and start investigating what is happening.

I'm going to suspect the The carburetor is dirty, let's take the plug out, see what it looks like if you have spark, no, that's it, yeah, there's something that's dirty beyond dirty, look at that sucker, that one's really bad. I haven't seen him bad in a long time. Well, I don't think that's going to have a spark, that could be a problem. Let's hook him up and give him a couple of ambushes and see what we get. I have a clamp on the handlebar to put the safety on because that kills. There is also spark and there should be no compression so you could grab the starter from above.

We have a ground wire there. I see nothing. Are you going to turn off the lights? Yes, we have nothing. I have a new one. Plug it in there, look, we have, I don't see anything, so we have no spark, that's why it died, so what you have is I call it a dead man, it's this lever here and I have it clamped all the way down. The way to go usually when you are using the lawnmower you pull it down and that allows the engine to run, it disconnects from the steering wheel and then there is also a spark interruption underneath also on the steering wheel and the car thinks it's anyway , it's all kind of a setup, so what happens is if that wire isn't pulled far enough, it's not raised enough off the ground to disconnect the spark coil, that's a guess on my part, let's move on. ahead some kind of bad coil, who knows, let's take this cover off, get in there a little bit and see if we can find something now that covers it out of the way, you can see the wire, this is the wire I'm talking about that pulls. the linkage and then you see this micro switch here this is not for the engine spark this is for the electric start and it wants to make sure that the brake is not on when you try to turn the starter motor eyeball so it only has one lever to make sure that this micro switch right there, that micro switch is pushed in, it allows the DC positive path to pass through the switch and allow it to go to the starter motor, that's it, our link is still inside here that's it. ground, so I'm also going to take the jump start cover off, we'll go a little deeper if I just lift up the gas tank to get it out of there, now come on, let's move over to the side and I've got one, two, three, four, five screws to come out of it and that cover should come off, okay let's see what we can see, that little green wire is a wire that's going to ground this one here and it's going up, it's like It's hard to see, it's actually under the steering wheel , it seems like this one works in a tough spot a lot of times, it's usually pretty exposed here, so what can we do to see if that's causing the problem for now?

Unplug it and we'll give it a spin. If the spark comes back, then we'll know that's our problem. Let's get ready with something to spin so fast after one of the other videos of me turning the steering wheel of what was, wasn't, is some old stuff around the old pump uh a couple of youtubers or subscribers prefer to send me some bushings one way ratchet and what that allows is just you turn it, but then when it starts it doesn't turn the nut so we got that one and this one thank you all so much, I really appreciate it, let's put it to the test, let's see what we get, oh yeah, I don't have any spark at all so I think we have a coil a bad coil on this one let me give it one last chance hey we don't have anything so that was detective work to see what we got let's see what I got on my stash that, uh, they're physically rubbing.

This is going to be a controversy. I know a lot of people say that the rust here will affect whether the coil works or not. So far I don't agree with that. I don't think rust can interfere with a magnetic field. I kind of disagree the only thing I see that could happen and if that's a problem is I'm wondering if it rubs and actually makes contact with that to stop the process, especially my guess is that maybe the center post that's on that, so we're going to take a real quick second to clean them up and see what happens, see what we get, if not, we'll continue to move forward and see what happens on the coil, actually We're going to remove it anyway because we want to look and see if there's some crack or something inside the plastic, I'm not really sure what he meant by "run", I'm sure it rained at some point and what have we got.

Sometimes you see that the coil there will be a crack there is a spider coming out on moving day so you can go okay we're going to take a little we'll clean this surface right here clean these three and we'll see if we get something I don't see anywhere where it seems that was making contact I don't see any rub marks on it, did it sound a bit like that? Let's see, let's clean it up, who do we have? Ah, I just have a folded piece of paper. between making an air gap it's really not that sensitive I'm just going to look at it again and make sure not to touch it it looked pretty good let's give it a spin again see if it turns me into a sparkless liar I have to put the drill in slowly because it's going out, here we go, yeah, nothing, that's a dead coil, so you can bet you're telling yourself where it's going to get a coil from.

Well, the day after I took this, this happened, it's worth being. a hoarder all three are free we need the bull four parts and sometimes it pays to be a garbage collector so we'll take a quick look at this one it looks like the pull start is out of control the lever the bar broke the plastic like some broken plastics in there, yeah that doesn't do anything with the disk it's broken it has the piece of plastic we need let's turn it upside down this one has been out for a while as you can see it's growing mold on it . in the bag and a couple of plastic parts that are in much better shape than the ones we have, but that's getting ahead of you, let's get that coil out of there and see if it's okay and we'll check the other machine, yes the screws are out and look what surprises this has for us, oh mouse nest, how rusty that one is, eh, hopefully the other one is still good, get it out of there, put it in the machine, see how it works, this one may be questionable, it's getting separating in the.

The plates rust between there and it starts to separate them, so it may already be coming out. Let's hit him with a wire wheel. We removed some of the trash to see if it helps, although it is completely separating. Let's see what the new old one does for us, here we go, now we have spark, I'd say that's great, but we have enough spark to get us going again on the old machine, there's a plug that was in it, I kind of cleaned it out with a wire. We'll take a look at it. That insulator in the center looks very strange.

I'm not used to seeing anything in that style. It looks like it's more for a chainsaw than a lawnmower. I guess here's the one there. take that one out, take a look at that plug, it's probably more the right one, you can guess, maybe we'll clean it up and throw it in so the two plugs are in focus, you can see the difference in the insulator, look how fat that one is in there and then the diameter of that that's what I was talking about is totally different what's the number on this okay something 12. j19 lm for uh eco clean something something number okay, let's clean that one and we'll put it back, le I'll put some gas in here and we'll try the drill setup to see how it works for us, maybe it'll even still work depending on what fuel is in the carburetor, that's the case I just got. to pull the lever up while the ground wires reconnect here we go I'll let it run there we go and I thought it was going to be fuel you did too okay let's move on and see if we can do the rest. some justice and get back to having a working lawnmower again, I think just for shits and giggles, let's see if that battery is still using the battery over there, take it out of a terminal, let's turn that on and see if that part of It works, I left my jumper pack here, but what I do have is a battery and two red test leads, all good, black to red to black, let's go from red to red, that makes sense, yeah, let's see if we get something of him.

It seems that the plug is disconnected. It's trying to go down, but let's give a splash of oil here to make this work. One of them may be that the battery is also low. He wouldn't have enough snot to make her leave. I lost something and the compressor is on, no. I got nothing man, I guess the battery could be totally dead. Test light, yes, it has power, we lost it somewhere, ah, the clamp came loose from the handlebar, we lost this up here and that activates and deactivates the switch that we talked about earlier in contact. yeah, who knows what condition the battery is in, let's disconnect it so there are no restrictions, we'll let it spin a little.

I think we just need a better battery. I think she has enough snot to drive it and that's why. the starter doesn't go down and doesn't turn over fast enough and we have a jumper pack hooked to it, let's see what that does for us, we don't try to drive down yet, get real just a little bit more, I don't think that's our problem . Although there it is, well I guess we'll worry about that if we ever worry about having an electric start. Wow, so it was slowly dying, it definitely started to slow down. The jumper pack isn't dead, so one more shot that's coming down just won.

Don't turn it, yeah, I think she's, uh, I'm not having a good day, that shouldn't be a confrontation between the two of us, don't let the oil just hurt it well, matt, no, about a little rinse, I'm not so sure. What's the problem with the rubber plate on top, but now it'soily? She won't work, it's cold, okay, I'm okay with that, we know it works and it will mow the grass, but she she's a bit of a dirty girl, so let's give her a bath real quick. The pressure washer removes some of the gunk on top and not underneath and around it is a little easier.

The ability to tighten it a little bit is a bit. cleaner, I say we drain the oil out of it, they have drain plugs underneath, but I find it easier, especially since we have to do a lot of work underneath anyway just to twist it over the dipstick and let it do its thing while it's at it. draining we'll go see ender's game I'm going to put my finger it doesn't have a plug I'm just going to turn it that's rubbing the gas tank I want to get an idea I'm going to let it rub For me, it's actually pretty close.

I'm surprised it was seen. You know, visually it looked like it was quite, very bent. Let's find out which blade is the best. We will take them both and choose the best one. of the two between that and the parts machine, hey, this is the one on the other machine and the wet one, of course, is the one we're working with now. In fact, I'd say the blade on top is better, you can see how. a lot and that's what usually happens, the corners will burn, you still have some meat left and this is lifting this little lip that you see here, that's the lift, that's what lifts the grass like a vacuum cleaner, anything it does. short.

I'm going to compare it to the fact that they both seem to have the same arc, but I think that's the way the blade is made, especially the fact that they both line up with each other. I don't think that's a harm to them. the blade I thought of earlier, so let's clean it up on a grinder real quick and inspect what else we have to get some plastic pieces, if we can remove them, the other one in one piece would be a better replacement. like this one here possibly this one loads on the sander just run it through quickly to give them a decent edge and they dull on the edge pretty quickly most of the work is done right there this is the first thing As the blade rotates it goes and cuts , so when something is mowed here, not much really happens as the mower moves forward, this rotates, this is what cuts the grass as it gets under the deck, so again that's where most of the work is already it's done, last little bonus, as long as they both look decent, you're fine as far as balance goes.

I've never really had a problem with it, you know it's going to shake like crazy, if there's a balance problem, a lot of guys are going to criticize me for it right now, but I've never run into that. What you find is that you have a bent shaft in the middle. The blade is sitting awkwardly or crooked to one side and causes a jerk, as if mud is dripping. I would definitely say it's already been used and has a small parts shop and this is the parts lawnmower so you can get it, that's how it should be.

The shield is not quite sure what all that black plastic piece on the back is going to have, that was easy, so I still haven't put the blade on it or anything, but there is one problem that I perceive: a problem progresses well if it you try When you drag it backwards, it simply locks the rear tires. I think there is a ratchet inside the wheel gears that gets clogged and stuck over time. Let's take the wheels off anyway. Let's look at them to see if we can. go fix that part while we take it apart to replace it, replace any broken plastics before removing the wheel, just do a quick recap of how the drive system works, it's on the handlebars, push down on the bars themselves.

The retract bars have a lever that pulls a cable that goes to the gearbox and there is a lever on the gearbox with a spring, so the more you push down on the handlebars, the more the gearbox tilts in. the axle and that in turn tightens the belt that's how the dry system works it's just a gearbox that goes to an axle and then there's a gear reduction inside the wheel okay let's take the wheel out so that in the wheel there's a gear on the back and then there's a gear right here, it doesn't actually feel terrible, there are little gears in there that catch on, pull it apart anyway, there's a little C clip in there that will come loose, this will come loose. it will release and then I think there is a ratchet tooth on the inside of it, if for nothing at least you will understand how it works, let's take that clip out, there you have it, you can see the little ratchet chambers that it can fall into and it has a spring wrench that's what this one looks like okay let me bring you closer so the little wrench has a spring on it and it should spring out of the way when it wants to go back in the other direction so you can look at the gear as the gears spin around he.

It has a cam that will allow it to slide and pass, but when you want to drive it, it locks in the other direction and grabs it, drags the gear and drags it with it. I'm going to disarm them. clean them, grease them they will come out and again there is a spring back there, you see the garbage that starts to build up on them and they don't come off at all in time, it's not very good. design, especially you know, for something that was in a clean environment, it's fine, but much more, I'm not a big fan, it seems like everyone I find, this might be the exception, are usually gummed up to the point where they don't We are operating the rover in the scrap yard and you can see that it can go in any direction.

It's not really going to do anything to drive because it's stuck to the bottom. You can see that the key is stuck inwards, it gets a lot. There is garbage packed around it and it doesn't work. There's one on the lawn mower in good shape, rebuilt, cleaned and oiled like a clock tuned or cracked in a safe. I turned around to take out the hardware to change the plastics and you can see how. that's fighting a little gear there that's a big dirty example before and then I have to get out of that side let's see how packed this one is it should be when it's there it should be bouncing up and down there's a Joke, somewhere sometimes the springs break too, they will collapse, but usually so much mud builds up on them trying to destroy the spring to get it out, you know, just take it, there it is, you can see the spring is nothing but solid. so poop, then you start digging and all the crap that starts coming out of there, but the lawnmower is probably at least 20 years old I guess, so it's been around a bit too, although it's not like anything is easily maintained , it's not like you can. okay, I'll put a couple drops of oil on it, that'll be okay, oil really attracts debris, but okay, you get the idea that it's more stretchy and you want them to have letters on the left and right pieces facing out. and that is much nicer than on our little spring clip, yes it comes and goes if lube helps in the short term but it also attracts debris so my opinion is correct on that, if in doubt use lube.

Okay, that's on our plastics, they've all been put back into place. I just have to turn it over and tighten the screws for that one. We're going to put the original blade back in there that's sharp and put it back. bright side, can we and another part from the other machine plug a hole? Another thing I see common with lawnmowers is that they cut very poorly and people throw them away, they just get upset with them, they're not getting a good cut, you know? where the deck height is set on each wheel individually and you have basically five settings, it's all you can there that will fall in the middle, so it's one, two, three, four, whatever six, look Where it is, it's pretty much right in the middle between them all. up and down, look at the one on the front, it's just one click away before it's all the way down, same as the one on the other side, it's in the same configuration and then the back, let's see what the third sometimes it's even skewed left or right, yeah that one is in the middle so I'll probably put it in the middle all the way around but you can see how the deck leans at an angle like it's an old hot rod as you go by, that will also make a weird cut in the grass because the blade is angled down like this, so the center of the blade has a nice crown, but as you get here, it's actually getting getting higher in the air, so it makes the grass have that kind of configuration and sometimes you'll also see where it's side to side, it's off, you go to mow the grass, you go in one direction, you come back in the another direction, the difference in height between this side and This side leaves, you know, about a three-quarters of an inch difference between the two and gives a bad cut for the grass, so this one is no exception with its uh, It's a forward leaning hot rod.

He quickly glances at the drunk lawnmower. We are in second place. tab up and we're a second and a half tab up on the back, so even this one isn't correct, although it worked decent. I want to remove the float ball, if we find it is very dirty we will remove the carburetor and clean it, but for now we can access the float bowl, pull the nut, release the ball, look at the main jet in the center, if there is a lot of trash, we'll make our decision from there, sometimes I'll have to get a glass, a glass. underneath so you can see what's coming out so you can run my finger over it real quick trying to keep the fuel that's in it, it's going to come off, here we go, yeah, it's got water, it's got dirt, there's a puddle.

If you see at the bottom that it moves, it's like a slightly different color, that it's all water and it usually doesn't come out of there because the stream is so fine that it will be difficult to lift it, but the container is really clean, so I don't mind. I'll worry so much, we're going to clean that, we're going to clean this jet, this is where all the fuel is sucked in, so we're going to make sure it's cleaning. those ports are clean, I just put them back together, that canister is back on the air filter, I don't have another one, we're going to blow it with air and do our best to fix it, sometimes they get oil soaked, especially someone dumps it in the carburetor side and that's possibly what it is or it could just be water again, the system isn't that great, I don't really like these air filters due to the fact that they let out.

In the rain, the water falls inside here, it's just a paper filter and it absorbs them, so give it to that one outside, eh, it's definitely far from perfect, but it will work and it's backwards, unfortunately, you can't give it the turn because The hole for the filter is displaced. Take the cartridge and twist it. Yes, but it will work. I think we're ready to go. Just put the starter on. We are almost at that point. Well, I put gas in it though, so there I am. I'm going to take him out of this tank, make sure there's no water in him.

Something just came out of there. It was a penny that looks like a cap for maybe gas. I wonder when that fell in there. A little dirt, although it's not terrible. Again I'm going to let it sit at the bottom and see if a puddle of water forms below. I don't see anything right away. Sometimes you look at the fuel. The fuel will be cloudy. Look, this isn't now, but. If it looks cloudy, let it sit for 10 minutes and then it will appear at the bottom of the water. We're going to blow some compressed air, put it back in there and we're ready to roll and go in.

Continuing with the gratuitous theme in this case, this oil was garage sale oil, which means what they do is when people move they get rid of everything, they go to the garage, they take all the chemicals and they throw them away. and they spin around like milk crates and they take them out and make a free pile in the front and I come and then I grab them or things like this or sometimes if you're going to wash an engine and get rid of it really Quick, but it was actually a full jug. Having said that I paid for gas, although I'm sure it's fine, how many pulls do you give it plus three pumps?

Do what it says when I say purple, well there you go and I would call that. a success from trash to treasure i think we could remove our sticker the self repellent works unfortunately there is no grass outside the cat actually snowed yesterday i was hoping the snow would stay there because of a botch i was going to try cutting snow but it disappeared so that's kind of before and after, uh, well guys, I think that's it. We were able to save one of the two

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ers we had and we didn't really invest any money in it other than fuel, everything else was parts. from the other machine you might know you could put a new plug on it, a belt, the blade if you wanted an air filter, but everything works as is, it will mow for a couple of seasons as is and it turned out pretty good.

I don't have grass to cut yet, it's too early in the season, but I'm going to leave it at my house. I'll let it run for a bit. I do that with everyone. they just pace test, make sure there are no problems with them and then I'll kick it to the curb. It's probably worth 100 dollars around here 120 maybe the other one will steal some parts and the corpse between purgatory, which is my garbage trailer and I call it purgatory because until they throw it awayI go back there and pick up pieces for the future, but for now I think it definitely served its purpose in terms of putting all the broken pieces from that one into this one and making us a good machine, so I'm happy with it, I think it's pretty good and not I have a battery like the one that I can put in if someone wants the electric start to work, they can go find the other problem is that the plug is missing, it has a small plug, a small DC transformer that plugs into the wall and that it loads again. the battery doesn't have a charging system to recharge it but it starts easy apparently it starts with a single pull ok guys i want to thank you all for hanging out with me have some fun doing some ripping and working on the cheap we'll do it again soon until that time see you goodbye