Raucous 4th of July celebration

This is an unorthodox celebration which took place at my family's
home at 160 Ruth Avenue in Syracuse on Independence Day. For the second consecutive year
I decided to celebrate the Fourth by attempting to make as much noise as possible. I am a
self-employed landscaper and small engine repair specialist so I usually have a number of
different articles of lawn equipment in my garage. My method was to remove the mufflers
from all eight of my walk-behind lawn mowers and tie down the safety release bars on the
handles and have them all running simultaneously on the backyard. I (Stanley Milewski
III, 20, orange T-shirt, green pants) am shown in the first video triumphantly revving a
weedwhacker while flanked by my parents, Stanley Jr., 61, (excitedly waving his arms) as
well as Mom, Ellen, 55. My brother, Charles, 17, is operating the video camera.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Lawn
• Mowers
• Noise
• Celebration

[heinj98]

I got it sorted. Thanks for the tips. I ended up cleaning the spark arrester screen, and cleaned the carb up with brake cleaner. Now it works. That was my first project, and i'm dying to get more.

[heinj98]

Cleaning the spark arrester screen did the trick, plus, I pulled the carb apart and sprayed it out with break cleaner. It all worked out ;-). It works now, so that's good. Still lookin for project to tear into. I want to be as skilled as possible. Thank you for the suggestions though.

[johndeere1568]

did you replace the spark plug if that doesn't work take apart the carborator

[johndeere1568]

did you replace the spark plug if that doesn't work take apart the carborator

[SpiritsoftheWolf]

hey heinj98 if the spark arrester is plugged up... just do away with it and ya dont have to worry about that spark arrester... and your carb may have a bad diaphram....mine did the same thing too...... just replace the diaphram and it should run

[heinj98]

If that doesn't work, I'll have to try something else. I may need to rebuild the carb. Not sure.

[heinj98]

When I'd get the weedeater started, it wouldn't run, it would die. Then, I couldn't even get it started. When I was taking it apart tonight, I noticed a fuel line wasn't attached to the carb. I'm not sure if it was like that when it wouldn't start. I was too pissed to think clearly. I took the muffler off and looked at the spark arrester screen, and it was so filled with carbon you couldn't see through an inch of it. I'm going to clean it up and put the weedeater back together.

[heinj98]

hmm, well, I know what would be cool and youtube could use some of. Small engine repair videos. Informative videos. I'm in a small engine repair class at a local tech school. I've been to 2 three hour classes thus far, and I'm looking to snag as much information as possible outside of class. I'm working on a weedeater that's not working correctly.