 Hey everyone, Shaber1000 here. Today we got this Echo, the PB300E, the power blower. It's an old backpack blower and it was giving to me. Not sure if it's going to run. I was told it would run, but it would fire and quit. We looked at the gas in it yesterday, starting to look like varnish. So, and I do know the throttle is stuck on it. It doesn't move. So what we're going to do is we're going to dribble a little gas down in the car or down into the cylinder head and we're going to see if it'll fire. If it'll fire will continue. So stick around. Let's if we can get this thing running. Okay guys, again we're outside and I know some of this is gonna be hard to see because you know shadows may spin you around. I don't know. We'll see what we can do about that. And of course we've got the traffic every time I turn the camera on. So, but anyway it's old. I don't know what year it is. The story is Ryan my friend who gave it to me said an old guy had it for sale and he said he was just getting too old for it. It supposedly ran but he don't know when. You know Ryan don't know when the guy had it running. I put this plug in it that we we took out of the out of the backpack blower we was working on yesterday and I stuck it in here and I looked for a spark and it has spark in this so not sure what was going on there. What we're going to do is I got some 50 to one mix here from the boat. We're going to dribble a little bit of that down in the cylinder. We're going to give it a couple of yanks. If it starts up I think it will. Then we'll move forward with it. We'll take this hose off so you know that's not going to be in our way. So yeah it's a little beat up. It's got a little on-off switch here. Like I said the throttle is stuck on it. Like it's got like three-fourths of a tank of bad gas. I'm not going to worry about it sucking anything into the carburetor right now because it's already in there and I'm probably going to have to get inside that carburetor anyway. So let's put a little bit of this down in here. A couple drops should do it and then we're going to give it a couple pools. Let's see if it'll start. I may have to move you. Let me bring you back here. Well I'm not sure where I want to put you. Let's try this. Alright we'll give it some choke. Let's try to start this thing. It ran and it smells funky too. Okay it's got some compression so I'm going to get a screwdriver. Like I said I'm sorry about the shadows. Looks like Phillips there is one missing here. I noticed that yesterday. Should be four. There should be two down here on the bottom. Two up here on the top. So we're gonna I'll see if I can stand on the other side. Let me grab a screwdriver. We'll take this snorkel off of here. First let's get inside this thing. This is the air cleaner. Now I mean it's dirty but I think it can be clean. That needs blown out. It looks like in here. Not too bad. I like it a little choke. That is cute. Don't let the video fool you guys. This thing is little. It's it's a little backpack blower. Alright so I'm gonna go get my I'm gonna go get my screwdriver. Let's take them screws out of there. Okay should have my wireless mic on. Okay that one's a straight screwdriver. I just happen to bring this over because well it was sitting there so it's a good thing I did. The snorkels I mean even if I sell it I gotta be careful with this one because if I decide to sell this thing it's gonna need a snorkel for someone. And this is not the one that has the throttle down here on the hand. It's it's you know over here. It comes down it's back here. You kind of set it and forget it type of deal. The snorkels are pretty reasonable but this backpack blower is not you know it's not a hundred dollar blower by any means so if I go you know putting twenty dollars into a snorkel and you know rebuild kit for the carburetor and stuff like that you know there's not gonna be any money to be made so I may just keep this one myself if we can get it running properly. It's beat up it's worn out people want stuff they'd rather have it running crappy but looking good than running great and looking like this. I'm the guy that likes stuff to run great. Okay all right now this is out of our way so all right the first thing we got to do is I got to get this gas out of here. I'm gonna find something to dump this this gas in then I'll show it to you. I'll show you what the gas looks like it's pretty nasty you really can't see down in there I don't think so let me get okay I didn't know if I hit record let me get something to dump this gas in and then this is something else here this curve here that's a metal bar and this is where your back is wouldn't that be like into your neck or you would think that'd be turned around here this handle comes off now I've never had one of these style echoes apart before I've I've never had one this old never worked on one this old I don't think if I did I sure don't remember it so let's take this off real quick I don't know but this comes off for some curious you know it's got knobs on it instead of screws so must be meant to take on and off for a reason there's one yeah it's been you know there's some cracks over here by the exhaust but the heat gets to it and then you set it down it falls over and it cracks hey I guess that's just an extra handle I don't know let me get something put that fuel in okay guys yeah I'm probably going to be pulling that carburetor apart we'll see yeah pretty nasty it's getting that it's getting starting to get that smell but yeah that's and it's supposed to look like this so there you go all right let's take a gander at this I'm guessing I got to take this cover off here I'm not sure what it takes it's like a Phillips or straight or standard I know I'm in your light again yeah okay yeah it's pretty dirty but that won't be nothing to clean out I may get lucky and just be able to just keep putting clean fuel in it keep starting it and letting it run until it shuts off starting to let it run until it shuts off sometimes that'll clean ourselves out we'll just have to see so let me get you back in the stand we'll pull this front cover off of here okay guys I got I'm trying to be bent down here a little bit get out of your shot or to get my shadow out of your shot I should say I'm gonna start this week organizing the garage kind of missing doing some late night videos I know not very many people watched them I don't know why I would do them on Friday night after midnight which was technically Saturday but I called them late night in the shop and they just didn't but I enjoyed it and it is content so I'm thinking about doing some more of those because man there's a lot of times I get inspired I'll watch a YouTube video or something I get inspired off some something somebody's doing and I have one like it or something I want to really get out there and do it that's what I used to do a lot of times and just get out in the garage yeah after midnight monkey wake up and come out I figured you'd be out here I'd be on a garage tanker around messing around definitely gonna have to come out the Ryan just stopped by and picked up his backpack blower or his handheld blower that we fixed yesterday gave me a big hug that's pretty cool you supposed to be able to look down here and see inside that tank kind of like a little gas gauge of course we'll have to see you know what the fuel lines look like I don't know what that was okay two screws piece of plastic yeah the heat gets these things and sears cracks all along here all right here's the carburetor this is the throttle and it's not it's not locked up up here yesterday if you noticed we didn't even adjust the carburetor on that other one it just runs so good I just fired it up for him he's really impressed so when I move this that's supposed to move so I don't know if there's a lock on it of some sort there's the kill switch this thing you're supposed to be able to it is moving moving up here yeah it is so that was wide open there's idle check these fuel lines so this one's only got one on it I can't see yeah I can it's a little dirty down in there but it's not terrible so I think what I'm going to do so I'm gonna look at that two screws hold let's pull this tank off okay let me get well that's pulling out that way I don't want it to do that let me get a pair of needle nose pliers let's pull that line off we'll pull the tank off and they'll get it cleaned out okay we're gonna hold this down with that lift that up my trusty needle nose I love these little pliers I restore them by restore I mean I pulled the handles off buffed them out put them on a wire wheel buffed them out with the buffer I've been using them see that's this supposed to be rubber right here it's really hard so there could be looks like it's been leaking not that big of a deal I don't have one with the single I've got one with the double but you can use the double you just plug the single one off you know the hole there's two holes one of them is usually smaller than the other one but you just run that tube down through whichever one's the tightest just block the other one off stick a bolt in it or whatever little screw and I'll never leak again till it gets dried out again yeah there's a bunch of gunk okay I'm probably what I'm gonna do is I need to get down in here there's a like a filter down in the bottom of these things and they're weighted that way it holds the line down at the bottom these things will run upside down these two strokes so that's just a dust boot there it's good and take it off before we lose it when you go taking these out when they're this stiff they'll never go back in and when if they do they don't go back in good so I want to see if I can pull that hose out it's pliable let's see if I can pull the hose out there I got a pair of long needle nose and I'll show you the the filter that's on the end of this thing okay guys so I got the filter out this is the inline filter or you know as you can see it is clogged up I think I've got one of these what I did was I used this this piece of wire here been it but this is for this is to yeah you fish this up through a frame through the hose in the frame you put your boat there and this is to pull the boat up into the frame when you're putting trailer hitches on that line doesn't feel too bad though it looks like it's got some clogging yeah so I'm gonna see if I got a line that will fit this I might have not sure how I'm gonna put it on because I really don't want to take this out but I may have to because usually these will break this little rubber grommet here will break usually and I don't know if I got any of those let me go see what I got I'm pretty sure I got one of these let me go look at my stash let's see if we get this thing running I'm I'm thinking that this thing did its job it clogged up here and in the line before it got there I don't know we'll have to see like I said we may try to get it to clean itself out and we'll go from there but we're getting ahead of ourselves let's get this tank cleaned out let me see if I got a hose yeah it's pretty dirty down in there I know I got a filter let me go see what I got okay guys so I do have one it's the same style it's a little smaller but I think it'll work and have a piece of fuel line here now if I can get this out without breaking it this is what I was talking about here also have one of these styles like if you get something like that you got one of these grommets you only need one hole just plug that second hole off there where you at just plug one of them off let's put your line through the tightest one plug the other one off you're good to go all right so what we're gonna try to do here I'm gonna try to pop this out of here without breaking it most of the time they will come out let's put them back in that's that's the struggle but we'll just see how well this goes it's not as hardened up as I thought it is kind of pliable so it may be all right all right so all right this is this is clear so let me let me spray some stuff down in here and get this cleaned out like I said we'll we'll try to run it and see if it'll clear itself out I don't know but we'll find out okay guys the Sun moved on us all right so we're gonna just I got this cleaned out real good we're just gonna stick this down in here and it should go in a lot harder than that but now this line up here I like that there's only one line hard to mess that up let's see if I can get that off of there there it is it's clear but down here at the bottom well I guess it will fit kind of tight I'm gonna use this line I've got more line here if I need it but I'm kind of wanting to see how it's gonna run right now if I can get it running at all still may have pulled that carburetor off it's not a really big concern of mine right at the moment oh yeah that okay I'm just kind of assessing it so right now it's not me guys over there Jerry's Jerry's old house so I bought it there they're doing all kinds of work on it I see there's a metal thing down here on this one and I don't remember it coming out of the top one there we're just gonna put this in so sorry about the noise but you know they're just trying to he's gonna rent it out what he's gonna do so they're you know working on the roof and stuff and it's trying to get it ready for rental I think he gave 120,000 for it seems kind of high but it is two lots I think ours would go around 110 probably with just this little lot but you know it needs nothing so well the bad the bad battery the bathroom could you know use an update which we're gonna do sometime but we need a horse that needs the roof but all right I'm gonna get some fuel this does not have a primer ball because it's got a choke that throttle still feels kind of feels like it needs more of something so off-camera I'm gonna go ahead and spray this down inside this lever here well let's take this apart see what's in here famous last words right let's take this apart see what's in here that screwdriver is too big too small this one will be too small yeah I'm not on the back of it alright guys let me get a different tool here and see if I can get you moved around to a different angle okay guys there's 10 millimeter nut on the back side of this thing I loosened it up I can see where the cable goes in I'm just gonna spray it up with this WD-40 I have here no no sponsor yeah I'm just gonna keep nice with this get this adjusted because I can't see you having to pull your arm way back to do this so I think you just kind of set it where you want once you get it on your back and you're good to go but I am also going to shoot some up here in the top of this table up here can't hurt it I mean who knows maybe it'll you know maybe it'll come back to life on its own we won't have pulled that carburetor because I don't think I'm pretty sure I don't have diaphragms for that thing anyway but maybe we'll get it to run longer than just a few seconds so I'm gonna go ahead mess around with this okay I'm gonna mess around with this see if I can get it working right feels it still feels a little crusty down in there so I'll do that off-camera so it's not too boring and I'll bring you back that's getting better once I get it adjusted right alright so that's kind of like an adjustment that'll screw you loose that nut you screw this in or out and that that adjusts the tension you put on there so it'll stay wherever you want it so got that going what we're gonna do now we're gonna put some fuel in this thing we're gonna get it fired up hopefully I got some fuel over here this is the stuff I like to use but it's a little little pricey but this is just boat gas it's 50 to 1 so we're gonna fill this up well as much as in the can or whatever just so we know it has plenty that's almost a full tank okay that'll work and check our cap our cap does not look the greatest so it's probably gonna leak just a rubber o-ring in there okay now we're gonna dribble a little bit bit of fuel up here on top again who knows maybe it'll start sucking fuel I don't know and I forgot my spark plug ratchet that's all right now I'm gonna move you we're gonna put this on the ground so in case it starts up it's not vibrating everything off the table we'll try to start it okay I'm gonna choke it yes I'm gonna choke it I don't know why most of the guys oh it's warm out we don't need to choke it's still a cold engine you know it's 80 degrees out that engine not 80 degrees that engine has to be you know 160 operating temperature anyway all right I don't know how I do this without getting in your way again let's move you over here screens upside down there we go all right see if it'll run forgot to turn switch on that's what I'm talking about now what I'm gonna do hopefully there's not a bunch of gunk and Duke up in that carburetor like there was on that fuel line but I think that pretty much stopped it but I'm gonna keep doing this until it's about ready and I'll kick it back on let's do it one more time together I can't never film anywhere guys I understand they got a work they got a job to do but it's Sunday I'm just gonna keep doing that see if it'll clear itself out okay guys I'm gonna pull the carburetor off because I popped this line off up here it's not sucked in fuel so they then could die for him's a bad in there and I pulled these three screws out but this one is well somebody stripped the head out on it wasn't me I don't know how you do that putting in plastic it's you know doesn't have to be that tight but they did it here's the carburetor that's there's a bunch of different settings on this carburetor all them little holes there I'm gonna mark it you can pretty much see it but I'm still gonna kind of mark it in the hole that it was in right there so I might have a diaphragm for this let my handy dandy tool around here and let's see I thought it was loose well it's not very tight at all yeah hmm so let's see see what we got going on here yeah I've had people ask me you miss your shop well I miss doing things like that but I don't miss running a shop you know never have time for my own stuff and you know so I just gave it up decided I'd rather have somebody pay me than me paying other people that diaphragms as terror would say hard as a carp I do have a diaphragm I do believe that'll fit on this so I'm gonna mess with this I'm gonna get this pulled off I'm gonna try to save the gasket because I don't think I have one of the oh yeah that's hear that let me get this off of here let me dig up right here well actually the bags open there's one land here that is the one we need all right let me see if I can save the gasket and I'll be back with you I'll probably do like I did on that other one we did not too long ago it's cut it around here then you can pull up on it sometimes you use razor blade just be careful don't score up your surfaces I've seen worse I can blow through it but I'm still want to spray that out I don't have any carburetor cleaner but I do have starting fluid so I'm gonna spray it out with that yeah let's see how brittle that is and it's supposed to be flippy flappy like that I don't know what you guys are seeing okay so might be why I wasn't sucking fuel up just wasn't pumping it's like a fuel pump to you know and that gas gets broke right there if it runs good all you know I'll get a rebuild kit for this carburetor oh there's one and that'll be perfect all right so we got what we need right here I will save that just in case okay let me go clean this out you take this out you got to be really careful there's a little tiny screw in here and it's kind of tight so I'm not going to bother with it I'm just gonna make sure it's really clean and make sure I blow through this here screens upside down I can't see what you guys are seeing this right here so yeah I blow through it but it's not shutting off let me get this cleaned up sorry guys and I'll be back with you okay guys so I got this pretty well cleaned out somebody was having issues with it running I think it may have been flooding out because they had the high and low mixture screws only turned out a half a turn they need to be a turn and a half to two turns anyway to at least get you started and so what that does it leans it out when you turn them in you're leaning it out you're giving it less fuel on the air mixture and so when these things lean out they don't run hot pretty easy but I would say it was flooding out on them so they leaned it out to take away some of the fuel and I would say that was when it started having issues not saying it wasn't running I've I've seen them run like that but I got this working now so all right I'm gonna put this back on which really just involves screwing everything back on what the hell are you guys looking at okay and get it right here there we go yeah I didn't get that screw out of there I probably should have but I have a feeling I may be put taking this back off again who knows if I sell it I will rebuild the carburetor but if I keep it and it's running decent I'm just gonna run it like that cuz it's mine you know but if I sell something it's gonna be perfect or you know if I work on something it's gonna be perfect or it's not leaving this house or this shop you know what I mean so there we go and I hear the neighbor behind me yelling at somebody again cussing and yelling all the time gee it's old man you know I was just going tighten these screws up and I'll put those other three back in make sure our choke works yes it does okay let me get these tightened up and we'll try to fire it up again it may take a few cranks to get this fuel to suck up you know that's that's a good ways away to go from down to bottom of the tank down here clear up into the top of here so that's what we're gonna do let me get these tightened up we'll try to fire it up again hopefully it'll get warm enough I can you know it'll run long enough to where it gets warm enough to where I can set these set the low and high adjustment on it okay so this is what I got going on here this is the top one that one seems to be okay it's not the greatest this one's bent down so it's not working it's not doing its jobs like a couple little valves they move like that in there I do not have one of these unfortunately I don't even think I've got a good used one I'll have to check but I'm going to mess around this see if I can get them limbered up and see if I can get them to do anything okay guys so the problem is that upper diaphragm this is what it looks like this is not the one this is used one I found which you can hear that it's no good either and it doesn't fit and I don't have any of these because there's the bag to him and I used them all so that's gonna have to be a part order thing the carburetor is good it's all clear out it's you know all the passages are cleared out and everything so I think I am going to order a bunch of them that's a wall bro carburetor I'm gonna order a bunch of those and have them on hand yeah and I think then I think well it'll be good to go then but yeah I'm gonna keep looking to see if I have one I really don't think I do because that was the empty pack and it's not laying in there anywhere so let me do some digging see what I can find if not you know well I'll be back with you and we'll go from there alright guys check this out I took that thing apart again I kept moving those little valves back and forth because you know that we're pretty stiff weakening them up check this out switch let's put this thing back together okay guys I know the background's overexposed but I want to what you guys see something anyway hey tighten plug down we're actually I'm gonna put the I think I'm gonna get a new one of these I'm gonna put what they're gonna say oh I'm gonna put the snorkel back on it too we'll see if it'll blow something I think we're all buttoned up here everything's good and tight it's like this so I'm gonna speed you guys up and we'll try to blow some weeds around that was pretty funny I couldn't get that on that thing was flopping around blowing stuff everywhere all right start this thing up blow some of the stuff off here that I just blew on here okay guys so what really how to I do try to explain things and show things to you as I go along this wasn't really a how to get this running it's more of we got it running so I think I've earned myself a beer and a cigarette I know my haters shouldn't smoke shouldn't drink they shouldn't judge oh I'm not judging you I'm just telling you what you should and shouldn't do that's judging anyway not real beer anyway guys it's it's fake beer it's in a it's non-alcohol but back to this thing what's the future of it am I gonna sell it yeah I'm talking like it's a you know 57 Chevy or something no probably gonna keep it because still running funny I mean if the straps hadn't broke that was some funny stuff right there you know it's usable I didn't think of what idle there it was island at the end but I still need that top where I should use the diaphragm now I can buy a kit for this for like five or six bucks but I think instead of just buying a kit for this one thing already got half the carburetor rebuilt with that new you know the new diaphragm on the bottom so and I'm always needing them top diaphragms with the little check valves so I just buy me a pack of them because that's all I need for that it's gonna eat straps he said he's got some tubes for it I don't know if they'll fit I'm sure I can make them work but in order in order to get to to make any money on this I mean I spent a couple hours on yeah my time's worth money I could be working on something else but I'd I'd be lucky get $50 out of this that's if I can clean it up and make it look halfway decent which I don't think I can because the bottom of the the pads ripped and you know it just looks crappy now like I said before earlier you know people want stuff that look really nice they don't care if it runs good or not I just you know when I put that in my garage I want I want it to look good that's really all they care about what is this a parade man I want my stuff to be functional it's old I mean I've seen them online good looking ones they were you know $169 asking price but the ones that that are in mint condition with nothing wrong with them they're only selling for like a hundred hundred ten dollars these these ones not you know these old ones here like I said this is a what is it a PB 300 E it's an X Echo yes it's a name brand but still it's a blower and it looks like crap so I think what I'm gonna do is I think I'm just gonna get it running good I'll just use it around here I'll just keep it you know I mean it was free you never know if somebody sees the setting out and wants to make me an offer on it you know I'll entertain that but you know like something like this I'd rather just trade for something interesting or you know something I don't have or you know something I can make a video on something like that but that that's it I mean yeah that was funny I couldn't I couldn't find that other strap it was behind me then when I grabbed it it just yeah see it's just a rod away you can buy these straps but you know they're like 12 or 15 bucks and I mean you can make a strap you can make two straps for that thing so no I won't have a lot of money in it if I would have to buy them snorkels you know I'll have about $15 in that I'm not gonna count the carburetor because you know I buy those things in bulk you know like 10 20 pieces so you know as far as the two diaphragms go I'll have maybe 25 cents in that you know the plug's gonna be fine I'm not gonna worry about it I mostly got my time in it but still to get you know to do this and then spend a couple hours trying to clean it up and you know to make 10 or 15 bucks it's it's not worth it so I'm just gonna keep it hell it's free you know it does run good there's nothing wrong with the engine well you know what I mean it running kind of funny because it needs carburetor work but it does run good there's no knocks in it you know it's not making any funny noises I did look down in the bore that with my bore scope you guys can't see that that's I've tried that before so you can still see the cross hatchings in the cylinders walls you can tell it's been run but not it's not worn out the engine's not worn out by any means I think the rest of it is worn out never know maybe I'll find one of these blown up or something with better case and stuff and I can just you know build a decent look on one who knows but yeah that's you know one of those things that was free I wouldn't give any money for this if somebody tried to sell it to me not running I wouldn't give any money running the way it is now I wouldn't give somebody 10 or 15 bucks for it probably wouldn't even do that maybe 10 just for parts but or to try to fix myself if I was going to keep it these things don't sell for a lot of money guys it's just too old so I'll just keep them you know mess around with it at least that was funny I was trying to get that and then I felt it and then I went to put more man it broke then the other one broke I was like I'll just carry it around and over here I don't know if you seen it the snorkel was just flopping around like a snake blown things all over everywhere got the cord of that dirty but there you guys go hope your ears going good so far and I did take the filter out of it when I put the filter in it was doing what we call four stroking and so I think the filter is a little clog that's another thing I'll have to get a filter for to I'll try to clean that when I did blow it out it held but it wasn't right so I just put the cover on left filter out if I keep it myself I might not even put a filter in it for all the more I run them things but yeah so anyway guys I appreciate you watching thanks for your support we'll see you on the next one hopefully you learned something try to help when I can sorry about the lighting but I'm outside we'll spend this this week this coming week working on the shop trying to get it cleaned out so I can do more work in there maybe you know better lighting I'm going to upgrade on lights in the garage this year I'm gonna put all leds in instead of them fluorescent ones but you know then we don't have to worry about the shadows and me getting in your way and stuff and you can see a little bit more but anyway guys until next time again thanks for watching Shea Bear the myth of man legend I'm gone for now I'm gonna pick up my stuff go get cleaned up it's now for a little bit we'll see y'all in the next one bye bye guys and take care