 Shaber 1000 here Today we're gonna be working on this It's a Kohler engine simplicity tractor When it's running after runs for a minute the carburetor starts filling up with gas and it wants to hydrolock so Let's pull that bow off there and see what we got going on in at the float. Okay, so I Figure what I'm gonna do is go ahead and pull this carburetor off It's pretty simple on this one. Someone has had a problem with this Somewhere down the line this wire does not belong on here So I'm not sure what gives there, but we have to take this off For to get the bow off, but I'm gonna take the carburetor off see what we can do there now What this does? When you turn the key off There's a little needle valve under here now the older ones you could adjust them right there But when you shut the key off it shuts the fuel off To the carburetor supposed to not let any more fuel go into it Well, it's also known as an anti-backfire valve Keeps it from you know when you shut your your mower off sometimes as it dies down as soon as it stalls It'll backfire supposed to keep that from happening too, but Someone's had an issue with that before so we're gonna start by taking These two nuts off of here. I think it's a 10 Yes, so I had this ready Also this clamp is not all the way on to the carburetor so someone's had the carburetor off too so Not sure what's going on there but We're gonna try to find out I have to get monkey wants me to cut the grass today so it is getting high, but I Can't use hers because the tire flat that tire flat, but that one's clear off the beads. So I thought I'd go ahead and Do this This is here just comes out of the valve cover Right there. There's a hole there That's where this goes. So this comes off try not to lose them nuts So let's uh that fuel line is very stiff I'm gonna have to go get some needle nose pliers try to take this fuel line off. I Don't know if I've got any That size I should have but I don't know We'll just have to see So yeah, that's a I don't know what's going on what they tried to do there, but There's also a screw behind here that That needs to be tightened up so Let me go get some pliers and Maybe it looks like five sixteenths. I don't know. Maybe it's a 10 Now it's more like five sixteenths or eight millimeter. I already have a fuel line unhooked to the fuel pump So that shouldn't be an issue All right, let me get some tools. Okay. Got my needle nose pliers here I'll have to I Forgot to look and see if I got any of these Rubber lines I Guess I should brought a straight pair. I thought these curved ones would be better. There we go That line's bad lines in bad shape Try not to hurt my gasket here. Let's go ahead and one screw This down here Just the ground wire it's been off there before my recording Yeah, when you get something like this You know used you don't know what someone else has done and why you know See like that They've made spacers with a washer and a nut. That's not right It's not the way it's supposed to be And so now we can just flip this carburetor I want to show you guys something as soon as I get this off here if I don't forget these plastic There's a plastic thing right here. I want to get it off so I can give you a close-up Sometimes if your engine's surging You know Revan kind of up and down a lot of times it's that piece of plastic worn and it's letting your that's your governor Your governor arms down there. This is your governor rod Looks like it's bent a lot of times What will happen? There we go is when that gets worn out, you know The governor can't do its job properly. So It'll cause it to surge up and down. Okay, let's this is looks like it's just plugged in over here Get you over here where you can see let's go ahead and unplug this All right Now let's take this somewhere out of the sun so we can work on it Okay, so let's go ahead Take this off There's a little jet Right there and it looks clean So the bowl Yeah, there's see these little dents in here That's from somebody tapping on it. I tapped on it a couple times myself but What happens is When this float goes up it's supposed to shut the gas off if it's staying down If it's stuck in the down position, it's not going to shut the gas off So, I mean it looks to me Like it's nice and free But there could be a piece of dirt in here that That's stopping it from going all the way up And shutting it off. So let's pull this out there is a That's as hard as a rock And I don't know if you guys can how well you guys can see down in there, but there's a bunch of junk Of course not Anyway, there's a bunch of junk down in there But this is a rut. This is rubber and it's hard as a rock like the fuel line. So I don't have one of these and probably just gonna buy another carburetor for it I Could buy a rebuild kit, but That's probably why right there That is probably it's not sealant because that rubber's not You know It's not flexible I'm surprised that wasn't leaking right there So what I'm gonna do. I mean the carburetor is not dirty A little bit of stuff in there not bad. It's not like real corroded We'll see if I can get that limbered up a little bit I doubt it. I know I don't have one of these that'll fit this But that could be why it's not you know when it's all the way up up against there supposed to shut it off If it's hard as a rock Chances are it's not gonna form around the way it's supposed to So let me clean this up a little bit. I'm not gonna bore you with that. I'm just gonna spray it with some stuff and then Yeah, it looks pretty good in there except for right in there. I'll get some pipe cleaners and put in there And we'll see See if that helps it. I don't know we'll find out. All right, so I got the carburetor back together. I Did clean the inside of this up It wasn't real bad. I found this line. It's a little stiff, but at least it's clear. It is a fuel line But I'm gonna have to Dip it in some hot water. Well, it'll go on, but I may have to dip it in some hot water And We're gonna take it back here. Let's go put this thing back together I'll get some hot water ready just in case we need to use it I don't think it's gonna have to be that long so it's probably gonna have to be half that long Okay, so let's get back in the back whoo hot one out today and Get this thing together and see if we can get it running the way it should be it runs fine. It just It start flooding out. You just start seeing a bunch of fuel I'm filling up in there The last time I tried to start it to cut the grass. I had to pull the spark plug and Blow some of the gas out of it because it actually hydro-locked on me for those of you that don't know what that means is the cylinder Liquids can't compress, you know air compresses liquids don't And if your cylinder gets full of a fuel, that's a liquid it can't compress it'll Start to it's just like you got something there. It won't turn That's not good for the cylinder because you can do you can cause what's called a washout on your cylinder That's not good either. That didn't happen. I caught it in time, but it could over time And What it does is keep it, you know your cylinders lubricated. There's oil in there to a certain extent. There's a light film of oil if you wash that off there, you're just running them rings up and down that cylinder dry and you can Not only ruin the rings which kind of sucks, but it's not as bad as ruining the whole cylinder So we're and then you got to go get it reboard. Sometimes you can bring it back by honing it I've heard people say you can't hone them small engines. Well, I find that to be bullshit So, you know to the guy seen say that on YouTube, he's full of shit You can hone them. I think this is gonna be all right now Let's go back and put it on and let's see if it's not then we'll have to Try to find the issue, but the the float's working fine. You blow through this and you get air And you flip it upside down. You don't so There's a number on here that I'll have to Look up and see what these things cost. They're not very much They're like 25 or 30 bucks. I know they're the cheap ones but This is a Nicky Nicky's carburetor. So I know but you know for around here, it's gonna be fine. Let's go back put it on okay, so Go ahead We're gonna get this put back on here Just kind of backwards from what We did to put it on. I've got me a pan of hot water over there. I've got I've got a I've got my Hose in there now these clamps are not gonna work on this on the fuel line that I've got because they're too big but I Think it's gonna stay on all right because it's got these These nubs here to help hold it on so This is not a permanent fix anyway because I'm gonna be taking this carburetor off Which will come with a new line Because I have looked these up before monkeys messaging me So it will come with a new line Let's get this hooked up I checked this It is working The solenoid it is working so I Don't think there's an issue with that. I think people just If they don't know a lot about these things the first thing they start doing is replacing parts because so and so said it's probably this Or so and so said it could be that and these are the people that tell them this stuff Without even looking at the machine Like he put new fuel filter New or yeah a new fuel filter a new line. That's all on the other side a new Fuel pump because someone told him it was a fuel pump wasn't getting enough fuel Actually what it was doing it was flooding out getting too much fuel. That's why it was stalling. I Believe he told me he put a new coil on it or had a new coil put on it Because it would run a few minutes and stall out. Well, yeah that that can cause that but You know that looking at it. You can't make that decision, you know So what it was doing was just filling up the bowl or filling up the carburetor The intake of the carburetor with fuel it'll flood itself out. So All right, well, all right, I got this on there Now I'll just bring us over here and plug it in Which I'm gonna have to redo because that's not the right way to do that You know have to get the Fuel line not good. I'll have to get the Looks like it could use a fuel filter replace but I Forget what I was gonna say now. Oh I got to go get the battery charger bring it back And I put it on boost Or we'll see what happens and If it runs, okay, and don't fill this up with fuel like it did before Now I'll go ahead and put the filter back or the cleaner air cleaner back on and everything So I'm gonna go ahead and tighten these two bolts and we'll start it up. Okay guys, this is gonna be very loud So if you're wearing headphones be mindful of that I Got my charger on boost I did crank it a couple times to make sure it was going to crank and to prime that So it should be primed I'm gonna close the choke And let's see what happens. I only want to run on chokes. So it's starting for fuel It's got fuel in it there. It's got fuel in here So I'm not sure what's going on there could be that line's kind of small But still it should have enough fuel to run it. Oh, let me dig around and let's see what's going on with it Okay, guys, so I found a piece of line That is the right size. It's not the greatest, but it'll work for now. Like I said when I get a new carburetor I'll put a new piece of line on it Watch your headphones guys It's running, but it's not running real well. So there's definitely something in that carburetor It's kind of act like it may need a head gasket to I'm not sure But we'll check all that out later. That should be enough to give me to cut the grass Let's go try to cut the grass with it. I think I found a problem It stalled on me when I was mowing it was running pretty rough so Stalled on me while I was mowing So I brought it back took the carburetor part and I used q-tips you know Cotton buds whatever you want to call them cotton swabs clean that out and when I cleaned That a solenoid out There must have been a piece in it because when I pulled that jet back off that little tiny jet had a piece of cotton in there So I started up seems to be running all right now. I'm gonna start it up again So watch your ears guys. So I'm gonna sit you down here in the shade Let's try this again. Yeah lens the cover the headlights themselves are okay, but they're just bulbs It's just a cover Came off It's all brittle and cracked from being out in the sun too long the heat Then all the heat from up underneath the hood and stuff Seems to be running fine now. So Some fresh gas. I think I'm just gonna go ahead and order another carburetor Seems to be running fine now. I can keep that for a backup But yeah, I just just cleaned it out real good and seems to be doing all right now so it's not it's not Flooding out like it was, you know, so we got that problem fixed Might have just been a little bit of dirt, but that carburetor looked fairly clean, so but uh I could probably rebuild that one, but for five or ten dollars more. I can just get a whole another carburetor I get another carburetor and throw on there and New fuel line fresh gas. I think it'll be good to go. So anyway guys, thanks for watching not really how to as it is What we're doing so just thought I'd bring it along with that So yeah, I think uh, I think I'll I need a wheel for this deck For the side of the deck here and it's gonna need a set of blades. So I think I'll put some blades just kind of go over It'll be ready to rock and roll. So all right guys. Thanks for watching. Shea bear the myth man legend gone for now It's 86 degrees with a real feel of 96 Well, I'm going with the 96 because that's what it really feels like to me. So anyway guys We'll see you soon. Bye. Bye and take care