 Hey everyone, Shaper 1000 here. Today, I got this old Briggs and Stratton 3-horsepower horizontal shaft or side shaft engine. Now this thing It's locked up. I have some ideas what's going on. Well, I have an idea what's going on with it And I'll show you here in just a second. So I think what's probably going on I'm almost sure of it. I checked the oil in this thing and Not a drop of oil in it So I'm betting this is a what is it date code? This is 1989 engine You can tell on these Briggs and Stratton's first two There's a model type and code number on these engines if you look at the code number at your date code First two numbers are the year is 1988. This is 1989 Now these older engines like this didn't have a shut off on them so if you was using it for a pump or you know a generator or something like that and It ran a lot a long time someone's had this cover off I can see and It ran for a long time. These things did burn a little oil And if you didn't check the oil every time you put gas in it Well, you know, you're gonna run out of oil and it's gonna blow up because they didn't have a low oil shut off on them but So I'm thinking that's what it is If that's the case, I'm probably not gonna rebuild this thing just the three horsepower I really don't have a use for three horsepower but There are some good parts on it You know, we've got a carburetor gas tank set up there Probably coil we've got the air cleaner This recoil starter, you know, that's good to have around so, you know I mean if I was going to use it for something I would rebuild it but my guess is that the problem is That it's locked up. They ran it. It got ran without oil and It just locked up Let's take the plug-out look down inside, but I don't think the issues in here We could get lucky, but you know, maybe someone just drained the wall out of it, but I doubt it. I don't see Any rust in there and I want to check something else here a lot of times these coils I'll show you when we get inside of here These coils if you adjust these coils and you don't get them tight I have seen them before where the magnet will pull the coil down up against the flywheel and they'll be locked up but Being that there's no oil in here and that would be my guess that it just seized up Like I said, if that's the case, I'm not I'm not gonna rebuild this one I'm not in it to any money. So this was a free engine right in here sometimes well, that could be Sometimes right in here If you don't tighten these these bolts up The magnet will drop down on the magnet will pull the coil down on and It'll cause it to lock up like that. I don't know It is on a magnet That's um, yeah, that's been outside. Oh That's scary. I thought that was a spider big old palm metal bug. Okay. Wow, what a mess Ain't out here 10 minutes okay, so let's Let's see if that's the case that would be nice. I Don't know it doesn't have any oil in it now I don't think that's the issue because it's still I should be able to turn that and I can't this is the governor here Yeah, see I still can't turn this so I'll tell you what we'll do Let me clean some of this off here. We'll pull the side cover off of here and look at the rod I think the rod seized up onto the crankshaft. It hasn't had any oil in it for quite some time. I mean we could try to Put a little pipe wrench on here and give that a turn. Let's try that first. All right. I Said a little bit I don't know if I've got a little one. I do have a little one I just can't remember what George and I turned it a little bit one way Feels a little clunky though. It may run. I don't know well I guess Well, we unlocked it Maybe it was just from sitting doesn't feel real bad though. Well, we got that unlocked Should we try to start it? Let's put some oil in here and try to start it. Let's see if monkey will get me some oil That's been broke for a while That goes up here That gets caused by people starting them crooked and trying to run them in anyway I can fix that. That's not a big deal. I can just put a longer bolt in it, but Let me clean this off here Let's put some oil in it. I'll bet it'll run It might knock But hey, you know Taking old engine that's locked. I'm getting running. That's always cool A little skeleton in there. Is that skeleton? That's a lizard Or gecko Well, all right Let's see if I can find some oil. Let me clean this off. We'll put this back together together I'll show you how to adjust that coil and uh We'll shoot some gas in and see if it'll run All right, so I've got my drill here We're gonna clean these magnets off I don't know if you guys watch taro fixes all or not He got a bulletin from Briggs and Stratton said that rust Between this and the coil will not cause it not Will not cause it won't Make it not run which I I gotta disagree with that because And you know, this guy has his own business, you know, he's not a backyard guy I mean, he's a legitimate business, but because I have before Had these things sitting outside and go to start them. They won't start and all I did I didn't even pull the coil off I just stuck a piece of sandpaper in between the coil and the magnet run at a few times like, you know back and forth like that And then it would run I don't care what you say if rust is built up between the magnet and the coil. It's going to short it out It's going to cause it not to run so but We'll give it a quick clean These magnets can get weak over time I see something there. I don't like I see some moving movement in between there Maybe it's just me No, I see some movement there Never had that happen before I mean, I'm sure it does, but I never had it happen We're just going to clean the laminates off of this. We're going to clean this off So it's got a good solid ground Now what we're going to do Plug our kill wire back in here. We're going to put our two little bolts in here Whatever you do don't cross thread these ones So we're going to tank these up It's far away from the started chewing on that Now we're going to turn the magnets The magnet up here There's the magnet right there Now I've got just a piece of an old envelope fold it over I'm going to stick that in there You can use printing paper if you want I'm going to loosen these and you'll see that drop down on it See dropped right down on it. I once it does that I'm going to give it a little tight and don't strip them And that's just about right Make sure this thing's on because we may have to I don't feel anything. Oh, yeah, I do I feel a little bit We may have to end up Checking the points on this thing Now let's put this back on here. Like I said, that's the governor And I forgot that bolt. So that's not a big deal because the other one will hold it In place And we're not up against the magnets. So Pull that up there. We'll put this back in Make sure that's working. Yep. So that's working Let's put this on here Yeah, I can tell this has been off there You know what? See that? I'm going to shoot some oil down in there some penetrating fluid wd-40 or something So this doesn't happen. All right, let me do that So that's good. Put our bolts back in here Once we get our bolts in here, we're going to check them for spark. See if we got spark Okay guys, so monkey ran down Got me some oil We're going to put some oil in this. We're going to pull it over a few times This is a Corvette guys wife. This is just some cheap stuff I had her go down to gas station and pick me up, of course. She's my parts runner Honestly, it might it might knock but then again It might run fine. So I mean Let me get this finished That's pretty close now. Let me get this finished filling up and then Then we'll pull it over and see if we got spark. All right guys, so I got intermittent spark But I might do something That's not the plug we had in there. I tried another plug, but it's you know, pretty much the same thing I don't know if it's in this wire We're in the points so Now I'm going to get some gas We'll shoot a little bit of gas down here in this carburetor Well, you know what first let's Let's use the brake the brake cleaner. It worked the other day for so Let's try that first. Okay guys eat choke There's choke. It's on Let's try this out. See what happened. Okay. Let me get some gas. We'll try the gas first. Okay guys, so I took some gas out of the vat And I used this line here this rubber fuel line to put some fuel in it I think I put too much in it's probably flooded but let's try it if it don't start then Then we'll we'll check the points to see why we're getting intermittent spark, but I you know, it should fire All right, let's pull. Let's get into the points. Okay guys. This is what I did Had to change the coil um That little black motor over there's an 84 and it's got electronic ignition I went to check the points and I was like, wait a minute before I pull all this apart This got electronic And I could get spark. I put shrink wrap around there. I could get spark if I move this a certain way I could get all kinds of spark, but as soon as I go to put it on the on the plug No matter what it lost spark So I've got spark in this I haven't tried it yet But if it runs You know, if it'll start up and die Then we'll we'll put some gas in the We'll put some gas in the tank And see how it runs But let's give this a shot. I know it's not tight. But what are you guys looking at here? Okay, let's see if we can get it to run It fired. I think it's gonna run. Let's um Let's dribble a little gas down in that carburetor. That wasn't much at all. There we go I mean it fired So let's put some gas in it. Well That tank looks like crap Okay, well Yeah That tank shot Okay, let me let me see if I clean that out some Okay guys, I cleaned that out the best I could Not real great It is leaking. It looked like I put some gas in it I can only imagine what that carburetor is like, but I do have another tanking carburetor That will fit on there. It's not going to suck fuel up. But that's another day But we took an engine that was free That was locked up And we got it running and it sounds good. I don't hear any knocking so That's probably going to be a good little three horsepower engine All right guys, I'll be back with you in a second Check it out guys. Let's shut you off And pull the rope one more time All right That's uh, that's pretty cool Okay guys, so hope you enjoyed that one because I had a lot of fun. I don't know That coil started doing the same thing and I tried five different plugs that I know are good and uh As soon as I plug it in It wouldn't spark across the gap. But if I put my finger across the gap Like that, I can feel it. It would shock the hell out of me. I don't know what was going on, but It got spark, so Um Yeah, we took a locked up engine that thing sounds peppy now I ordered a throttle cable twist cable for the thunderbird and the minibike Ordered a carburetor and a pipe. That's pretty peppy if I'd known that I would have ordered If I knew that engine was going to run that good, I would have just ordered a tank for it and a pipe for that Because the carburetor's fine apparently because it's it'll set night on it revs up. So Uh, yeah, I would have just ordered a tank. Them things are cheap. They're diamond dozen. I would order the tank for it A bigger tank this one over here is a lot deeper tank, but it's the same tank. I do believe I can use it but man, um That still might be a possibility to put on that thunderbird and uh See what happens with it We'll see how that one runs because 79 cc. That's three horsepower, which that that's a It's a harbor freight engine So a predator 79 cc, which is three horsepower. That's a three horsepower, but that thing sounds peppy That might be another video We may put it on there I mean, you know, I can change it over in 10 minutes Put it on there and see what it sounds like or you know see what it runs like Whichever runs the best we'll leave it on there and then Sell the bike with whatever engine's the better engine on it So, yeah, anyway guys happy Easter Um, I may throw out a quick video tomorrow telling you happy Easter Um today saturday. So tomorrow's Easter I think i'm going to smoke a ham. I might bring you along with me for that. I smoked a ham twice For christmas, but you know for Easter Hey, let's see, you know I may throw out a video out for you guys tomorrow But yeah, as soon as those parts come in we'll get back on the Thunderbird And we'll throw the carb on it and the throttle and see what we can do with it um Man that engine sounds good. It sounds peppy I looked down inside the cylinder the best I could I didn't get my scope out Didn't really have to shine a light down in there. You can still see the cross hatching in that thing And it's clean inside that cylinder clean So I don't think it's had a lot of use since 1989 But that'd be a good good little motor for something like that and I remember guys This is a kid's bike. It's not going to run me Up the hill 40 miles an hour. It might run me down the hill 35 to 40 but You know for a kid it'd be it'd be it'd be a good beginner bike for somebody you can get like I said all kinds of upgrades You can get a front brake system for you can get hydraulic brakes for the back And you can get risers For the uh handlebars raise them up a little bit You get all kinds of stuff for them things. It's a mini bike man. You can hop them up You change the the sprocket to the sprocket It's kind of a small sprocket. It's it's built for some speed If I put a bigger sprocket on it if I was going to keep it I would go with another size up sprocket for more torque Because usually you're going you're going to be riding him off-road You're going to be going up hills and and you know through the woods and stuff You know, you really don't need a lot of speed. You're not You know very seldom are you going to have something like that out on the highway where you where you need to run 35 miles an hour You want torque on something like that on an off-road vehicle? You want a little speed, but you kind of want an in-between But anyway, we took an engine that was locked up I I almost pulled the side cover off, but I thought well, wait a minute. Let's just try it So probably just from scent with no oil, but it sounds good. There's no knocks no pings. No nothing in that engine so Yeah, all right guys. Thanks for watching. I appreciate it. Hopefully your weekend's going great And uh, you know happy Easter everyone And we'll see you guys in the next one. Um, thanks for watching appreciate it. I gotta clean all this stuff up now If a lot easier getting the stuff out than putting it back in All right guys especially because you know, it's like You know, I got two four six And 12 I got 12 drawers that Different ranches and stuff are in and you know, it's like which one did this come out? So thanks for watching guys appreciate it. Stay tuned for another video I've got an invoke unboxing video coming up right after this one. So stick around guys We'll see you in the next one. Shea bear the myth man ledge. I'm gone for now. Thanks for joining me Happy Easter everyone. Stay safe. Enjoy yourself. Bye. Bye and take care One more time for fun