Here's a blast from the past for ya, Tautech.
I curb-scored this in the spring; it got buried in the back of the back shed without even being triaged. So today I'm taking a few hours to check it out; decide if I need to fix it or flip it.
So far things are promising; found the flywheel crusted onto the brake band, and the usual clippings that collect between the gas tank and cylinder/crankcase but little else horrifying. Gas even smells halfway potent, and nothing in the tank but a few blades of pickled grass; I just cleaned the flywheel and brake band with a wire wheel & did the "blow everything out with my hand over the carb" dance, and now hunting a deep-well socket for the spark plug.
mnem
Pray for me out in the "dog days" suck!
OMG why do they even need such things......mowers cut things so keep your furking toes and fingers away !
Yep go a 4hp similar that I need to finish shoehorning a CDI onto......nearly 40 yrs old and was a points model but not done much work so still should have a turn or 2 left in it yet.
It lives! The spark plug was pretty crusty (I think it was OEM; still had the half-masked-off black paint on the metal); cleaned it with my pocket knife and a bit of methanol, then a squirt of meth down the carb throat and it popped right off, first pull. A couple more snorts and then I was able to keep it running by pumping the primer bulb, then on with the air cleaner and it just runs!
Total cost: $0.00 and a couple hours out in the suck. It's a mowin' little mutherfucker, it is! Not as much torque as the ol' 6.5 (ft-lbs) Tecumseh-powered MTD for sure, but I put the wheels on #3 instead of my usual #2
(Hey, I'm a old, fat bastard and yeah, sometimes I scalp it but fuck mowing... ) and it handled the deep shag-grass we have in the back yard just fine.
I did stall it a couple times chopping up dropped branches into smaller bits
(yeah, I'm that asshole too; it's a tool and it's gonna work for me, not the other way around gawddammitt ), but it restarted first pull.
One thing it has over the 6.5 MTD that I really like: a normal throttle so you can let it cool down at idle and temp equalize for a few minutes before you shut it down; if there's one thing I hate it's riding a engine hard and putting it away hot & angry.
You know, I usedta agree with this... until I handed the mower off to my own 12-year-old son. Now... gawdammit, I insist that he does not flystrap the dead-man the way I do sometimes, like for cooling down and taking that pic. Whaddaya know.
Anyhoo...
there was a point to all this. The biggest thing this mower has over the 6.5 MTD is it doesn't sound like it's aboot to throw a rod; when I bought the MTD for $25 I knew it was on its last legs with a bit of a rod knock, and I got 2 good summers out of it.
The new place has a little postage stamp of a yard with a patio that I
could keep tamed with a weedeater if I had to... I think I'm gonna accidentally forget the 6.5 MTD (and the parts mower) in the shed here and keep this one. It's not self-propelled, but that means it weighs like nothing... I can push it around with one hand and barely even notice it.
Simplify, says I.
mnem