 Hey guys, let's check this tractor out see if we can get it to start so we can find the gas leak Okay guys, there's the carburetor, so Apparently he said the gas was leaking out of the carburetor. I don't know if he meant it was flooding out I don't know if something's loose. I don't know. I got the battery. I put I had the battery charger on the charger on night last night, but It didn't take charge so I got it on On my boat battery over there with it on the charger, and then I got the jumpers back here to this thing So let's just see if it'll crank over talking about the blades okay guys now I've noticed that This thing does not like to rev up if you rev it up it starts cutting out missing popping and Let me show you something real quick or show you what I'm talking about Think this may this thing may have a valve issue And I'll tell you why if you look down here on the valve cover See that that's that black RTV sealer It's like a former gasket. Someone's had that off. They're probably checking the valves or fiddle fucking with them trying to adjust them And if you don't get them right See it's an overhead valve so The valve system so you got to adjust them like a car So I'm thinking that may be an issue right there with the way it's running So probably why it's popping and banging so it's either got a burnt valve or one is out of adjustment But let's check the transmission on it and make sure it's okay too. It's running rich man. That's burning my eyes. I Still have yet to see a leak in the carburetor, so That's they maybe had a little dirt in it But down I'm going to have school down for a few minutes there We're going to pull this cover off and see what we got going on there. Okay, folks. This is what we got to get into next We got to pull these Bolts out around here. There's one on the bottom right there PVC hose out there. It's crankcase ventilation is what it is Let's get that up there all the way. We're going to lose some oil. So I'm going to put a rag down there and Let's get this pulled off time pull the exhaust I can smell some stuff out of the exhaust pipe Unburnt fuel or something. They've really got this glued on there. Why do they do this shit man? That is glued on there. It's just going to bend the hell out of it trying to get it off of there Let me look at that see what we're going to do Let's take this off Take this cover off and see what's going on underneath it a lot of guys May be asking Why didn't you just check the plug first? Well, there's a reason I didn't check the plug first and that's because whatever's it may need a plug but The noise that I'm hearing is some popping through the carburetor when you hear that that's not a spark plug That's usually in a in a valve Valve situations usually what causes that so that's why I did not pull the spark plug first Yeah, they've got this so glued on there It's pitiful Probably going to bend the hell out of it trying to get it off of there Oil looks clean and good. I have a bent pusher on two these right here. These things right here are your pusher odds One of those could be bent pop it man. Things feel tight. Those seem to be way too tight All right, I'm going to check the specs on these I'm gonna go ahead and pull these are called rocker arms I'm gonna pull the rocker arms off and the push rods out and we're going to check the push rods and see if they're bent Hi guys, this is the push rod for the intake Valve now how I'm going to check to see if it's bent is I'm going to put on a very flat surface I've got it on the counter in the kitchen And I'm gonna roll it and that one is perfectly straight Now if it wasn't you would see the end going up and down That's rolling perfectly straight Now let's check the exhaust. There's one for the exhaust So they're not bent Also found out There's no adjustment on them valves. They have hydraulic lifters So it sounds to me like a valve was staying open too long So the only other thing that could cause that other than being too tight on the adjustment would be a burnt valve or a cracked valve So we may have to tear into the head. So let's go get this put back together Well, let's go put it put it in there. I'm gonna do some more checking on a couple other things Now these just get pushed up in There's a hole down in here that they go into as you can see they're very I loosened them up That's all I did and make sure that's in there through that's in there Make sure it's on your lifter and these all they do is get tightened up. There is no valve clearance on these to speak of so I may be looking at a Valve a valve issue see that right there I don't know if someone has changed the valves or the valve the push rods and put longer push rods in I don't know but that just opened that valve up Okay, now The first thing you got to do is you got to put it on top dead center compression before you do this which I have already done So I don't know What the story is on this why? They would be opening like that I'm not sure there's a couple different reasons, but like I said someone could have could have put Could have changed these push rods and put too long of push rods in it But I'll have to get the specs and I'll have to measure the push rods to see if that is the issue I'm just showing you this how they go in here They go like that now It is on top dead center compression But I want to show you something if I can get you down here on this Like that bottom one there now watch when I loosen that That valve will actually come out which means it's closing so right now. It's open a little bit I could have some suck lifters, but it doesn't doesn't seem like it See that's opening. That's opening that valve and it shouldn't do that Let's see if it does it on the top one too Where's the top one right there? All right See if that opens see they're opening They shouldn't be open right now So let me see if I can get some specs on them valve On these push rods and then we'll see See if that's what someone has done Okay guys It's 93 or 92 with a real feel of 103 Uh So like I said some people will ask Why didn't I check spark plug first someone has already done that that has not been in there that long See pretty much a new plug Uh Somebody's tried to gap this plug and you're not supposed to gap this one. So I've straightened that out So what I'm going to do Is if I have a cracked valve Things expand when they get hot So it ran good when it was cold and then once I got it up to operating temperature is when it started acting up So There's a couple things here If it's got a cracked valve remember things expand that includes cracks So if it's got a crack in the valve then As it heats up that valve can or that crack can open up more Causing the sound we're getting through the carburetor also It could just be as simple as a as a piece of Carbon built up in there if there's carbon underneath that valve. It's not going to let it close all the way you'll get the same The same issue So I'm going to put this together and I'm going to run it for a while and see if it gets any better If it doesn't then we're going to have to pull the head off of it And check the valves they could be worn If there's nothing wrong there Then we're going to check the cam lobe now. We're getting deep into the engine. It could be a cam lobe I really don't think it is But uh because the valve seemed like they're opening a good way. So That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to put it back together I'm going to let it run a while see if I can't get the carbon if it's a piece of carbon See if I can't get that to blow out of there um And if that if it don't straighten out on its own after a couple hours of running then Then we'll uh, we'll take the head off and see if there's a valve issue in there. So I did check on the uh, the uh The push rods They're the right push rods in it So I don't know. I'm not sure what's going on so We'll just have to check it, but I'm going to I'm going to go with the uh With thinking, you know, it may be a piece of carbon. I don't know But let's run it for a while and see if that straightens it out. So Uh, then we're going to go from there Uh, it's too hot to be working out here right now. I got too much junk in the way in the garage Get this in the garage and it's not much cooler in the garage So I'm going to call it quits for today, but that's what we're going to do And there will be a part two When we do some more stuff on it. So right now, let's get it running good before we go putting any kind of money in anything else We're going to see if we can't get the engine running good if we can't get the engine running good. It's really There's really no sense in trying to fix everything else. So We're going to do that. So with that, I'm going to say shea bear the myth the man the legend I'm gone for now guys. Thanks for watching. Bye. Bye and take care