 Shave everyone thousand here today. Sorry. They're the neighbors mowing over here beside me. That's okay I'll just speak up We got this mower. We have to look at for Neighbor up the street. I had changed the starter on his Ford pickup one time and a little backstory on this The problem is I don't know what the problem is so Let me tell let me explain that to you and we'll get into this so I come out of the bedroom this morning and Monkey sitting on the couch talking to her mom And she said you know anything about a lawnmower sitting out front? And I said No, what lawnmower? She said there's a lawnmower sitting out front. You know anything about it. I said no As I went into the bathroom, and then I remembered Guy named Claude worked on I worked on his his Ford pickup Here a few months ago changed the starter for him and the other day I was Bringing my grill out. We were gonna. I was gonna put stuff on the grill for monkey And well, of course, I couldn't it rain. But anyway, I was putting it out and He stopped in front of house and he's truck and he hollered out. Hey Can you take a look at a lawnmower? I said, yeah, sure. He said all right. I'll push it down this week So he did and But he never did say what was wrong with he messaged me a little while ago and said, you know If you need anything for the mower, let me know So I'm not sure I Didn't ask him what was wrong with it, but I think I know because Now it looks to me like that's a fairly new string and we need nuts but I'm wondering if they put a new string on it and just didn't wind it. So we're gonna do that first Okay, it's clear out of fuel That's okay. Well, we're gonna put a string or We're gonna try to wind this spring up make sure that the springs or wine wind the rope up make sure the strings okay The spring is okay and uh Then we'll go from there, but I think it might be all needs. I'm gonna see if I can find Three nuts to hold that uh recoil starter back on All right guys, I'll be back with you in a second. Hang tight. Okay, so What we got to do is we're gonna have to wind this up now sometimes they'll have a notch cut in into here somewhere where you can put the The string the rope whatever wind it up this one Doesn't but it'll go around But it feels like it's slipping So I don't Yeah, there's something wrong with the spring but for future references This one doesn't But it'll go almost all the way around Well, it will kind of right there sometimes you have to bend this this piece In or up a little bit to get the string to go by it. So what we're gonna have to do Is we're going to take this off of here Yeah, I can see right now the spring is broke and I don't think I'm going to be able to fix that Well, that's not the spring that that will fly out when you pull the When you pull the rope these will fly out And they catch into that cup and that's what spins Spends your motor over and then when it starts and you let go and this spins back these will flip back in So I just felt this thing Yeah, see there's no spring action You may need to get a recoil um Let me go ahead and pull this off here. Maybe they didn't get the spring sat right maybe the spring broke But I'm just going to get a little it looks like a 10 millimeter We're going to take this off and we're going to see what the spring looks like. Hi It's a tip. Whoa, that's pretty loose Well, that could be the problem Um, let's go ahead and take this off and check though. Make sure again, sorry for the motor noise, but You know, you got to cut your grass Especially we got some I got to cut ours too Especially when you got all this rain neighbors riding a zero turn And he usually has a John Deere. So All right, so I don't want to lose this I'm gonna set it down there on the mower These are the dogs that come out Okay. Yeah, the spring has been broke See they've tried to make it work and fix it right there That's broke off. So And what that does is when it goes down in there It's supposed to catch on this Uh, I got a mower out back, but I think it's a brings the stratton and this is a tecumseh Tecumseh, tecumseh, whatever I'll go around and check and see but I think the springs are different Now what you can do if I knew how it it curved You can put You know another bend in there to get that To hook in there like it's supposed to Uh, but I'm I don't know I didn't see it. So I don't know how it uh How it was designed how it was bent So let me go check my mower out back And then we'll go from there I may bring this up online and see what kind of spring it is and I'll see what kind of bend it takes I'm trying to put a bend in it He may have to get another spring. I'm not sure I can't remember if you can get just the springs or if you got to buy this whole Excuse me this whole recoil starter. Let me see what I got around back. Okay, so I put a little bend in this These things are pretty cheap. They're about You know 25 bucks Most of them's used But I don't know how soon he needs it. I'm figuring probably pretty soon Uh The way everyone's grass is growing So what that does is That little hook will hook right here and then when you pull on the rope It will wind it back up So like As you can see there it was winding the rope So I'm gonna wind this up. Oops dog came out Well, my dog came out, but I mean this dog came out too. Um, let's get this in here All right, there's a bunch of gunk down in the uh cop There's some gunk here. I'm gonna clean out first I'll show you right here Get that cleaned out what those dogs do they fly out and they hook onto this and when you pull the rope it turns Turns this All right Then when you let go of the rope the dogs flip back in So I'm gonna get that cleaned out I'm gonna find uh I'm gonna find a couple nuts for this thing We'll see if we can't get this thing going for him Okay, we got the starter rope wound up the way it should be. I got some bolts nuts on the bolts there Uh, this is just one that Kind of buggered up there Check the oil. The oil's fine, but this is a problem with this What this does is when you pull that handle up there that top handle That's a break and this will pull And it frees it up. Okay The the cable is is seized up on it So What I usually do when I got to work on these things I I made a thing Well, not that long ago actually That you clip in here and you pull this back It's like a you and you stick it down in there and that holds it where you can work on it because this I did spray some that uh PB blast in there, but I can see down there. It's not doing anything And this is an old one. You can tell it's an old one. It's got a choke. It's actually got a choke on it But it's in pretty good shape for As old as it is Um, so I'm going to pull this back also what this does. This doesn't just stall it out Uh inside of here there's a Ground wire for your coil that when this goes all the way back it grounds the coil out shuts it off And then this is just a safety break Um, so Like a lot of guys When they get done mowing they'll just let go of this And sometimes And that break stops the flywheel and sometimes with and your flywheel stops and your blades still want to turn Now sometimes when that happens it'll shear that key inside there. I've seen that happen More than twice let's just say Because people just let go of that and it's just like hitting a stump or something All right. I'm sweating. I got to go in cool off. It'll all come out Uh, I did check the gas. There's not a drop of gas in there. It's dry as a bone. So someone Drained a few out of it, which is great. So hopefully there shouldn't be any carburetor issues This is one of those ones. It's just an mtd Uh, I mean you can still buy these things for 110 120 bucks 99 99 Sometimes brand new in the box So you want to keep the price down This was anybody else. I wouldn't even be working on this because I'd have to charge them at least 50 to 60 labor That's half the price of a new mower Uh, but he's my neighbor So i'm looking to try to keep him. I may have one of these cables off my old one back there Uh, I'll just have to see what kind of style it has here I don't know if I can get this Like I said, um, you know, I'm looking at, you know, maybe Making 15 20 dollars on the guy Because I like I said, I want to keep the price down for him, but you know, I want to make a little bit but also I'm uh You know, I'm making a video for you guys like a how-to video So, you know, it's a win-win for both of us if I can get this going So let me go cool down and then we'll come back And we'll get that um pulled open The brake we'll get the brake Pulled open or wired open or zip tied or whatever and then we'll we'll put a little bit of gas in there and see if that thing will start so Hang on guys. I'll be right back. Okay. So now there's another way you can do this You can take this spring off and it makes it easier to pull that back, but And that spring will come off fairly easy, but it's a pain in the Get back on so Let me see I'm probably going to go ahead and take this cable clear off It looks like there's some freeing going on right here Right there. So this cable is pretty well shot Even if I get it freed up it's not going to last that long But I'm going to try to free it up for him all time. He needs a cable And if he wants me to put one on I'll order one for him and put it on for him Or if he you know if he wants to get one whatnot but I'm going to go ahead and take this cable off I've got a looseness that'll come out of here. This whole piece comes off. Okay So I'm going to go ahead and take that cable off And then uh And then what we'll do Some of these you got to squeeze together here and some of them you can turn and they'll slide out I'm not sure about that one yet. Um What we can try to do Sometimes you can squeeze them together and go to pull that cable out and that if that cable stuck Sometimes it'll give it enough to where you can at least work on it. Let me get you in the stand and we'll try that first Just to see if we can You know because if the engine don't run it's not really worth messing with I mean this this was nothing to deal with there But we have to have it to find out you have to have this to find out if it's going to run So we had to do that so all right Uh, let me get you in the stand and we'll try to get this pulled back one way or two other Okay, I'm going to try to do this without getting in your way too bad Looks like that side will pull out Let's try to push this bottom side up in There we go. No, it's just going to keep popping back in there. Whoops It's just going to keep popping back in there But I can use this to pull this back And let me get a piece of wire to stick down in here and down in there to um Actually that's probably enough, but it'll probably Um pop back up out of there. Let me get a Coat hang or something like that. Okay I got one of these pieces of wire What it is is uh those things you put in for like air air conditioner filters heater filters things like that um So I'm just going to bend it. Oh, I'm just hit myself in the face Just going to bend this over like that And then I'm going to pull this looks like Looks like I'm going to bend it right about here Just like that. I'm going to clip this off Maybe This is uh some of that wire used when I made the uh Christmas tree live That one Christmas Okay, so that's going to come out easy. So Uh-oh, I cut it too short. It looks like Just a little bit too short Uh, okay Let me make another piece here real quick Bend this back a little bit more Turn off camera here, but Make it a little bit longer. Let's go back to about here Cut it off again I'm actually just breaking it off, but that might be too long. Yeah, that's too long Make it a little bit shorter Probably still going to have to go shorter than that But you get the idea of what I'm doing so Let me get this made to where I need it to be and I'll be back with you Okay, so I've got my wire on there As you can see our pull rope's working I'm going to try to put a little gas in it. See if it'll fire up Um When I need to shut it off. I know what you guys are thinking. How you going to shut it off? Just pop that wire off of there That's all that piece of wire we bent and just pop it off of there and It'll hit the kill switch and break so All right, I got to let my cook camera cool down getting a heat warning on it And we'll come back out And we'll check some other things before with like I want to check the filter and then we'll uh Then we'll put some gas in it and see if it'll fire. All right guys. I know the lighting's bad but I'm trying to keep you in the shade and I'm trying to keep in the shade I got to get my garage cleaned out so I can work on this stuff inside to where I can have fans blowing on me and A little bit of air conditioning coming from inside the house Okay, see that's Okay, here we go One of the big Palm metal bugs See that You know what was in there? Those are lizards that have hatched Those are lizard eggs So nothing got up in there. That's good. This is shot. He's going to need another one of these I can't clean that that's just too Too bad So Yeah, there's palm metal bugs everybody calls them giant cockroaches, but they're not they're actually a palm metal bug Um, see he's still alive Get him out of there Get him out of there All right, so I'm going to get I'm going to get this bug out of here There it goes get off of me. All right We're going to put some fuel in here and see if this thing will start And if it does I'll let the guy know what all he's going to need because I I just don't have one of them cables That'll fit and say if he wants to move further with it and if he does fine. If not, that's cool I won't charge you much for this. I'm going to go show that to monkey. That's pretty neat There's a better view for you Pretty neat, huh? Ha cool missed that one that one didn't hatch pretty cool I'm going to save that I don't know why I just think it's cool another one of them days All right, I'm just going to put some of this in here. It's two cycle fuel Uh No guys, it's not going to hurt anything as long as you don't run it like all summer And even if you do it's just going to smoke a little And uh, maybe fire out a plug. It's not going to hurt anything There's no ethanol in here. I don't know how long this has been sitting. All right, so well There's about a quarter tank in there and uh We're going to get ready to start cranking on it There we go. That's the part I hate I'll probably take it back there behind the poor vat on the concrete I'm going to go from there Let's see I'm going to make sure it doesn't leak first Then we'll see if it's going to run Okay, so now like I said I mentioned before there is a choke on here. We want to choke it We're going to give it a couple pulls. See what happens What was that second crank? No smoke that thing runs good for The year on it I mean, there's the tag I don't know if I can get any year off of it or number or anything from the numbers Mid 90s probably a night. I don't know if that's the year 96 or not But yeah, that's an older one. So I'm going to get a hold of him To me, I think it's worth putting a cable on because I'm not going to charge him that much So Yeah, I think that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to get a hold of the guy I'll shoot him out of message and uh See if he wants to proceed with it Which My opinion. Yeah, it doesn't knock it doesn't smoke I think it's worth really anything it needs now is a filter there a little pricey But if you keep them clean, they'll be fine For a few years Uh Yeah, so let's see what's my labor and everything He's probably still looking at about 50 bucks 50 60 bucks in there That's half the price of a new mower. I understand that but man, I mean That one's already broke in it runs good the oil looks fine To me, it's worth it Let me try to get a hold of him and I'll be back with you guys. So called the gentleman up He said do it. He said If you don't mind, I'm going to run to the bank. I want to come down and pay you now That way it's all taken care of when you get her done. Just give me a call uh, so I got I'm I'm not charging him extra on the parts. I'm not you know doing that Uh, I got him the cable for his 11 something with tax and everything about 15 I got him two filters and two pre filters for less than 10 bucks So it'd be right around 10 bucks with You know tax and everything um So that was 25 dollars. I told him You know 45 dollars that's labor You know and everything And he said that's a great deal. I'll come down. I'll pay you 15 minutes later. He shows up and uh I you know showed him the cable and everything and explained to him about it and He said uh, yeah, he said here he paid me and he said There's a little extra there for you gave me 60 bucks for everything. So he paid me 35 dollars For labor when you know, I was going to charge him 20 the same way with the starter That's how I got to know the guy. He always sees me. I'm always out here working on stuff. So that starter for his truck he um Asked me about I told him 20 bucks and I changed it and I did and um He ended up paying me 60 for that He said but you got to lay on the ground you had to you had to lay on the ground You had to jack it up and I'm like, well, that's part of the job. I knew I was going to have to do that No, that's all right So he always pays me a little more and that's good. So I'm going to get the parts ordered and When they come in there'll be like a second part of this I'll show you how to put that cable on and um The filters nothing, but I'll show you that too. I'm going to try this out. Make sure it's going to cut all right and We should be good to go So let's fire this thing up and let's see if it's going to cut all right just like that Man, I think that's good. Here. I'll show you Yeah, it didn't even bog down or anything Man, I think that's good all right guys, so There you go another quick upload for you. I appreciate you watching. I gotta go cool down again and uh, I may uh Try to get that old scooter running here next day or two. We'll see. All right guys Thanks for watching. Appreciate it. Shea Berry. I meant the main legend gone for now We'll see you guys in the next one Y'all stay safe be cool and take care. Bye. Bye now