 one shiver one thousand here we tried to get this thing running yesterday and wouldn't start it fire but wouldn't start so I think what we should check is the blade okay guys I have a couple suspicions I thought I'd check this blade for a reason now you need three things to make an engine run you need fuel you need spark and you need compression I know I know you need air let's skip that we all know air okay now that's for you know gasoline engine of course diesel is not gonna have spark I'm looking for any nicks or any kind of bend on this blade now I'm not seeing any but I do have a suspicion what could be wrong with this thing but the first thing we're gonna check after this is we're gonna check compression now these small engines they'll run on low compression they just won't have any power you try doing anything with them they'll stall out this thing it's fine but it's not it it won't you know just catching and take off and run I don't see any bad bends in this right here there's a neck right here I can feel it I can't feel anything on the other two but on this one there's a neck it's kind of been out a little bit and I can feel it could be natural but that could be a reason there that this won't start but if I don't do this I know people gonna say you should always check the compression first that's true so what we're gonna do is I've got a compression tester over here and we're gonna check the compression on this thing and we're gonna see how much compression it has if it's got a little compression it should still run but see there you know I was thinking well I even said it yesterday I think I think it's not getting right fuel I don't agree with that I thought that but now I don't because even if your carburetor is clogged up you know your fuel lines clogged up even if you're out of gas if you pour fuel into that carburetor or up here which we did down into the cylinder it should fire up and run for you know a second anyway should at least do that this is not doing that however it is firing but it's not really like starting up okay that can be due to compression okay if we don't have any compression there's several different things it could be it could be leaky head clear down to a hole in a piston it could be a valve stuck open could be a bent valve you know but I'm thinking if I had a valve stuck open or a bent valve which will make it stick open because it can't it can't close all the way it would either backfire through the muffler or backfire through the carburetor we're not getting that we're not getting any backfiring so I'm thinking it may be out of time there's no distributor on these but they are in time but first let's check the compression okay so I've got a screwdriver and throttle I want wide open throttle and we're gonna watch our gauge here and I'm just gonna give it a couple pulls see what we're reading seems a little low it's got about 55 52 I think that's enough compression to start this thing but we'll see okay so let's get this thing out of here we're gonna spin this around and I want to get in whoops I want to get into the flywheel I want to check this before I pull the head and flywheel is in here so I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna pull this whole cover off there's a couple there's three bolts up here holding it on three head bolts should be a couple down here there's one here on the side another one over here on this side and a little screw right here so I'm gonna speed you up I'm gonna take them out we're gonna take this off here and then we'll move on to the next step I got them bolts out I must be messing one somewhere it does not want to move okay let me investigate this more forgot to record had all the bolts out it was just stuck so we're gonna take this off inside of here right inside of here that little cop whoa excuse me there is a nut so I'm gonna get my my socket and my little impact and we're gonna take this off and I'm gonna flip it up on the side we're kind of on a side I don't want to go all the way over on that side feel exhaust up with the oil and we're gonna look at something inside here inside of here there's a shear key not a shear pin you know a lot of guys call it different even professionals they'll call them shear pins they're not a pin a pin goes in around hole then they'll call cotter pins cotter keys they're not cotter keys you know it's like it might be your shear pin or your cotter key you got that backwards okay so because there's a key way in here that's why it's called a key it's actually called a woodruff key my suspicion is they may have hit something with this thing a stump just cuz it's not dinged up real bad doesn't mean they didn't hit something soft but hard like a like a tree root and if that belt is really tight which it needs a new belt if your belt is really tight and it stops the engine this fly who wants to keep turning they put that in there for a reason for that reason so you don't do you know big time engine damage like bend a crank or break a crank or whatever so this is my suspicion up in here so let me get my socket I won't pull this off here and I'll take a good look at it together okay guys I got this little guy here we're gonna try to take this off this is a five or three-quarter so let's try to there it is all right now need a new handle on that let's pull this off let's check this key I'll show you that key here in just a second it's kind of hard to see but I think that may be the issue I'm gonna pull this I'm gonna pull this off here I'll show you how I do that it's a real simple I know you're not supposed to do that but it doesn't hurt anything let's go ahead we're gonna pop this off of here now let me go get a let me get a hammer and soft prior hammer and a pry bar now I'm gonna pry out on this I just got a big screwdriver shouldn't take much and I'm just gonna tap that just like that now you didn't hurt the threads you didn't hurt anything we're gonna take this key out we're gonna take it in the house inspect it it should have ran even though I think it may have a little damage it should have ran but I want to take this out we'll take it in the house and look at it real close I'm probably still want to go get another one we'll see what this one looks like though see this one is not technically it's not even a wooddrift key wooddrift key is kind of like half moon shape okay I can already see but let's get you in the house I got a cool down anyway all right guys so here's my little key and there's something pointing to this thing maybe being a little bent okay there's the end of it the outside end now if you look right there come on focus see that line that looks like that may have tried to shear off now usually if they're only this bad they will run but they won't run great okay so yeah there's that I think that may be the problem but like I said most of the time you'll see these things really actually sheared off though it'll come out in two pieces this that's not the case with this one so what we're gonna do monkey's not here so I can't go get a shear key yet so in the meantime what we're gonna do is we're going outside let's go ahead and yank a head off there and see if we see any issues you know maybe a bent valve I really don't think that's a problem could be a compression ring broke but let's pull the head off and see what's going on inside there one real short one goes here and we know where the other ones go so all right pull this off see what we got here I see some carbon I don't know what's going on with this head right here but hmm well my positive ahead may have been off there I don't know I'll have to get a new gasket sometimes you can reuse these but what I'm gonna do I'm just gonna turn this over take this belt off here but anyway one valve coming up there is some carbon under there exhaust valve looks nice and well I won't say clean it's carbon but I don't see anything major the intake valve does look a little suspicious to me it may have just enough carbon shoot may have just enough carbon built up to keep it open but you would think it would have backfired through the carburetor all right I'm gonna get a wire brush I'm not gonna bore you with that I'm just gonna clean this up I'll try to take a head gasket off there I'm gonna need to get another head gasket yeah that's just gasket material I'll clean this up and I'll be back with you once I get it cleaned up and we get a wooddrift key in it and we'll see what happens after that I don't see I don't see a hole in the piston I don't see any cracks in that piston what I do see right here that may or may not have been underneath that valve that is all carbon that was underneath that valve that could have been the problem I'm gonna look at it a little closer like I said I'm not gonna bore you with cleaning this up there's no excessive wear on the cylinders I can actually still see a little bit of cross hatching I see a little bit of scoring not the major nothing that wouldn't cause it to run or that would cause it not to run whatever let me get it cleaned up hi blow this off got that nice and clean I know there's a bit of carbon up there it's not gonna hurt nothing guys this is not a 500 horsepower sports car race car or the space shuttle it's an edger 3.8 horsepower so I am gonna put a new gasket a gasket on it it's not a big deal I probably could use the old one something like this and I'll tell you why because I think I I'm thinking I was 11 or 12 ish I wasn't a teenager yet but it was right before there so let's just say I was 12 all right I was roaming around the junkyard one day dad come in with a load of scrap he said what you doing mark I said oh I'm just looking for something to build he said well that's good because I think I've got just the thing for you he unloaded a lawn mower and he said that thing don't run you want to mess with it and I'm like sure so I was pulling on it felt like it there was nothing there I said that if it feels like there's nothing there he said it's probably got stuck valve there's no compression said all right so I pulled the head off of it sure enough one of the valves was stuck so I tapped it turned it it opened and then you know stayed open so I kept doing that kept hitting it with oil and tapping it finally it freed up and it would open and close I didn't have a head gasket put on and that head gasket was crap so I actually used some orange RTV on that thing and I put it together and that thing ran and I remember it running when I was 15 or 16 I was using it to cut the grass so you know it's not a big deal you can see it was leaking around there a little bit you can see some black puffs you know soot but I mean we had a big yard we had almost naked grass to cut so but I am gonna put a new head gasket on it like I said I could probably get by using the old one just tighten it down real good but since I'm gonna go get a wooddrift key I'm uh I'll go ahead and pick up a gasket for it I don't think the key was the problem I think it may have hit something at one time but it didn't do enough to I mean that thing still should have ran even if not running good I've seen them like halfway sheared and they still run but they run rough and no power and stuff like that but that carbon I took out of there I think that may have been holding that valve open just enough now why it wasn't popping back through the carburetor I don't know maybe it wasn't enough to get it to pop back through the carb but so yeah what we'll do is we'll throw a head gasket on there new wooddrift key I know a lot of you guys are gonna say well how do you know which one it was I'm pretty sure it wasn't that wooddrift key I'm pretty sure it was carbon on this and then we'll check the compression again and see if it came up from the 52 we had before so hang tight guys it's gonna be a little bit for me but for you guys it'll just be a second so we'll be right back okay guys something I wanted to show you real quick when these valves are closed put your thumb on there and try to turn them you should not be able to turn them as you can see we can't I got us a new head gasket it was 17 bucks but it might end up costing us a lot more because as we was backing out monkey ran into a customer's lawnmower a riding tractor and so crinkled the hood up and I think maybe bent the spindle I don't know but anyway I gotta really get moving on this thing because it's gonna rain it's gonna storm again so let me grab my bolts and I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna speed you up through this because I got to really get this get this done so I remember how this went all right a few lines bad I gotta see if I got a few line okay guys sorry about that my battery went dead so I changed the battery when it goes dead while you're recording it wants you to hit the recovery button sometimes when you do that it wipes out the whole card so I went ahead and imported what I had I went ahead and put it on my computer just in case I tried a different card but it won't let it only it stuck on that screen until you use that card so if that happens and you lose your card your screw all right so I'm gonna speed you up through this because this is kind of I got a fuel leak there this is kind of kind of fiddly so looks like a bowl gasket it's just a little drip all right let's do this and I'll speed you up I love the chase and I set the pace when I'm running I always take what I want and I always give it 100 don't need a bank no I'm funded play the game like it's nothing I'm always thankful for something don't take for granted say I'm born now wake up okay guys so I shut you off to get a drink and I forgot to turn you back on anyway I got this all back together how we're gonna get it down off of here and we're gonna see if it'll start looks like I got some work to do on that should have did it while it was apart but I don't have to take this whole thing off to get to that roof I can just take these screws off around here just needs wrapped one more time so let me get this down off here let's see what happens all right put our spark plug in I'm gonna give it choke it's got throttle yeah there's no primer ball on this so let's see I guess I'm gonna have to fix this first let's see not getting any fuel I'm not saying it don't have carburetor issues but it should when you pour gas in there should start and run for a second anyway let me do some checking it's already running longer than it did yesterday okay I checked the compression again it's lower it's like 42 weird like say around 94 to run good usable hate she comes these okay guys I got a fire it does have a slight fuel issue but the governor is not the governor's kind of stuck if I open it with my fingers it'll run so it's just kind of like wanting to start on idle all the time so I'll show you what it's doing see this is not doing anything so let me take another look at this but I think tomorrow we'll get the carburetor straight now may not even be much wrong with it it's responded to when I when I adjust that bottom the high speed jet it is responding but it just it's only running half choke to so I don't know I did run another compression test that second one I ran not the first one but the one I did off-camera I didn't have a throttle wide open so I did run another compression test and it with the throttle wide open and it's about 99 so anyway let me do some more checking on this and I'll be right back with you okay let's try this again the a little rod the governor rod that goes from the governor arm to the throttle was bent let's see what happens in one click of the choke that's not a big deal this thing is also a trimmer so and it can trim start this up we're gonna take it over here and see if it'll trim those I know it's gonna need a new belt I think it's gonna be gonna be alright engine sounds great first started again first I'm gonna tighten this part plug up I'll start it again maybe put the pull rope on see if it'll start with the pull rope we'll see what happens from there do some work on the carburetor tomorrow then and we'll see what happens thank God I'm gonna put the pull rope back on okay good to go now that we know it's a fuel issue tomorrow it'll be carburetor time because that was with the choke closed so this thing it does run it's a good run a little engine as a matter of fact it's a fairly decent carburetor on that but those years this was built I'm thinking around the time they were about ready to file to come she was about ready to file for bankruptcy and they just pretty much put out crap so but I think this carburetor is rebuildable but I don't think I'm gonna have to I think I'm just gonna clean it out take the part clean out we'll do that tomorrow and I think that's gonna take care of our issue and this will be ready to work I'll have to get a new belt but that's not a big deal so alright guys let me get my tools picked up I'll be back with you okay guys so final thoughts on that do I think any of those do I think that carbon caused any issue do I think the sheer pin caused any issue I don't think it was either one of them because I believe that big hunk of carbon that came out I believe had I noticed that Governor Rod bent I think it was started and blew that piece of carbon out of there but at least you know that doubts out of my mind now now I know there's nothing wrong with that it's got good compression now it's got 98 pound now so I think the main reason was that damn I mean I looked at it and when I opened the I opened the butterfly up on the carburetor you know I just stuck a little screwdriver and there's a carburetor opened up I didn't notice the governor wasn't moving and that's why it wasn't moving because when it was bent like that it was actually pushing the governor back to like where it would be idling and what it does is when you start them they're wide open okay and then the governor will come back and bring it back to wherever you have your throttle set like to idle to bring it back to idle all the way to idle this was backwards it being bent like it was was pushing the arm back to idle the governor couldn't work I think I was main issue ah you know who to thunk right rookie mistake but it happens so that's why I'm telling you about it so you know make sure you check that I do believe the first compression issue at 52 pound I think it would have started on that and blew that carbon out of there I really do think it would have blew out because it kind of fell off in my hand I showed it to you I don't think that because it wasn't like it was jammed in there so I think that once it would have fired real good I think it would have blew that out the sheer pin I did put a new one in but when I got to looking at it I was like man I compared it to the new one that's why I didn't even show you it really wasn't much difference so here's the old one I'm gonna save it because you know you never know wasn't very much like I said it was like 17 for the gasket it was $21 and something with tax in this so providing we don't have to buy a brand new hood for somebody but you know if we do we do but I guess he's one of the customers that he just he said no man this guy bitches about everything but he told him he said you know he told him move it when he dropped it off he said don't leave that in the middle of parking lot someone will hit it that's what happened yeah granted monkey should have been been looking better don't rely on him back of beepers because they did beep as soon as she hit it they started beeping but she was backing up kind of fast just always look around so anyway accidents happen it happens I backed into things before myself but anyway it's running so maybe tomorrow we'll do the carburetor we'll take it apart clean it I'll get some carburetor cleaner and we'll spray it down I might soak it I do have a little bit of that I think it's gunk carburetor cleaner in a gallon can may let it soak in there for a few hours we'll see but I think that's that's the rest of the issue it did stop leaking up there to bowl because I figure once he got to it it you know sealed itself they do that sometimes just it's just a rubber it's not really an o-ring because it's more like square but they still calm o-rings just a rubber seal so anyway it does run my thoughts on it yeah I think it'll do what I needed to do and that's fine and it'll be fine because you know really all we need to do is now it's a belt maybe shorten that blade up a little bit I don't know we'll see pretty well guys until the next one she bears a myth man legend golf now y'all be safe have a good one bye bye and take care everyone