I remember dad showing me the trick for using a box for a gasket. Doing a thermostat on my first car, a decommissioned cop car, he took the box the stat came in, traced it cut it up, put schmoo on, jobber done.
Power washer is the bane of my existence. Recently personally experienced the shoulder buster phenomena and a new carb later she's choochin' . @Ave why TF don't small engines have a crank start like older Model T's where I could use my cordless drill to fire them up??
Pressure washers, chainsaws, and lawnmowers are why I finally said F-it and went electric on them all. Too many times of needing to get things done then spending all of my time dicking with a POS small engine full of bad gas.
I feel that not having carburettor adjustable is more liability thing. It is not a car, so you cannot frig it and kill yourself but you can kill it with wrong adjustment. Tuning a carb is something of a lost art these days anyway, so they presume customer is stupid/lazy beforehand and everything goes from there…
With those small engine carbs, old trick I've used if it's something I don't want to sink money into is to boil it in lemon juice. If there's any varnish at all it will be eaten up by that hot solution. No need to disassemble or buy new parts either. Engine will smell like lemons every time you run it after that for a long time too.
I remember dad showing me the trick for using a box for a gasket. Doing a thermostat on my first car, a decommissioned cop car, he took the box the stat came in, traced it cut it up, put schmoo on, jobber done.
Squeeze the trigger when you start it!
FACS = Fuel, Air, Compression, Spark. And if it ain't one of those it's FACked
Power washer is the bane of my existence. Recently personally experienced the shoulder buster phenomena and a new carb later she's choochin' . @Ave why TF don't small engines have a crank start like older Model T's where I could use my cordless drill to fire them up??
Nice German calibrated elbow. Turn. Turn, turn…click.
Pressure washers, chainsaws, and lawnmowers are why I finally said F-it and went electric on them all. Too many times of needing to get things done then spending all of my time dicking with a POS small engine full of bad gas.
I feel that not having carburettor adjustable is more liability thing. It is not a car, so you cannot frig it and kill yourself but you can kill it with wrong adjustment. Tuning a carb is something of a lost art these days anyway, so they presume customer is stupid/lazy beforehand and everything goes from there…
Holy Cana-dians.
Alarmed hominid
With those small engine carbs, old trick I've used if it's something I don't want to sink money into is to boil it in lemon juice. If there's any varnish at all it will be eaten up by that hot solution. No need to disassemble or buy new parts either. Engine will smell like lemons every time you run it after that for a long time too.
Pull cords are for suckers… Take the assembly off and use a drill with a socket adapter to start it.
Ah, the suck squeeze bang blow mantra. A man of culture
They backfire because the valves have worn into the seats, therefore closing to soon, Causing detonation, ripping your shoulder out of socket.
Needing to have the choke on before you give it a tug seems like a problem not exclusive to mechanical devices… or so I've heard.