 Okay guys, here's what we're going to try to get running today. I bought this thing four years ago I'm thinking it was a 74 or something. I Had it running then I got it running, but um As you can see it's pretty ragged out. I gave $10 for this thing and I'd bought two of them I bought I gave $10 for this one $15 for another one I sold the other one a guy was going to use a motor off of it for a motorized bicycle It's got a piece missing Well, I'm not really a piece. It's right here. It goes here We'll get into this in a minute. I Thought I was missing that piece and I looked all over for that piece this piece right here and Here it was just hanging down there. So there's a little screw that goes in there holds this and this is what chokes it and Unchokes it like that and But the cables kind of froze up I don't know what happened to the bolts to it. This It's got a lot of water in it But it I Think I came up with a 70 1974 on this thing, but I can't remember now I'll go back and I'll let you know What year this is but a Lot of times I'll have a model type and code number code numbers what year it's going to be Sometimes it's a sticker and I think this one was a sticker. That's why I can't find it But anyway We're going to check it out. So it's got spark. I'm sure I'll have to pull this apart clean the the the plugs or the points on it But we're gonna see if we can get this to fire off today I Broke this that little tiny piece right there off of here Because I tapped it this was froze up and I tapped it and when I did I Broke that off there So you're gonna figure out a way to fix that. This is the governor And this is the the kill wire So when you pull it all the way back Something touches it and it'll short out your coil and shut shut the engine off But let me get you set up and let's see Yeah, let's see See if we can get this run. I want to talk a little bit about the oil too. So stick around guys So the first thing I want to talk about is checking your oil on One of these that don't have the dipstick in it Dennis Hallbacker check his channel out. He texted me earlier and was asking me about this. I'll show you How you know if your oil's full on this thing if I get you this one's Hasn't been checked in four years All right, let me get a pair of pliers. Okay. Let's try to Get this off here. Sometimes these will break. So you got to be careful Okay That's how you know, this is a real video It's always good to Clean around here for you take that off anyway. So you don't get that dirt down in your crankcase Still tight now yours probably won't be this hard to get out, but If it is just take some time with it there now See, there's no dipstick Now in here you can look inside of here and You'll see the threads Where this screws on Just fill it up until you see until you see that oil touch the bottom of the threads and That should be fine just to the bottom of the threads and probably maybe an eighth of an inch down just You'll see it. This one is low And try to have it on a level ground So I'm gonna put some oil in this thing. It is not locked up. Believe it or not So I'm gonna put some oil in here and I'll show you where to fill it to okay. We're gonna put our oil in What do I run in these I run 10 W 30 now the newer ones of course will If they have a dipstick a lot of them will tell you right on the dipstick what to run If it's not under warranty run what you want to run And if you guys have these small engines like a lawn mower or an edger if you turn them up on their side towards the Exhaust oil will leak out So make sure you know which way you're you're turning your engine Okay, I can just see it right at the bottom of them threads You're good to go if you can see that you're fine. So let's move on. I'll put the cap on Let's move on to something else now. I want to get this Little piece here put back on there. I'm gonna have JB weld it in order to do that though This will come up out the first This is our idle screw We've got to screw this in Because there's a little tab over here See if I can show you that There's a little tab right here. This has got to turn back enough for it to miss that tab and then It will come up out. That's what it looks like. So I got to get this piece If I don't lose it put back on here wherever there goes it goes on top right there so I'm gonna JB wall that that should hold it and Me back you out. He had carburetors looking bad, but We should be able to get it to run now. Yeah, I'm gonna put that get that put back on there clean that up put it back on there and then That'll be done and then we'll check for spark Okay guys, so I got this engine tilted up a little bit. I got some Paper towel in there that I'm gonna let it sop up for a little bit and then we'll get back on it I'm not gonna I'm not gonna glue that piece. I got it cleaned up, but I'm not gonna Well glue it JB walled it. We're just wanting to see if it'll run. We're not fixing it up yet But if you know if it runs and runs as good as it did then you know This will be a revisit on just doing the engine up I won't rebuild it, but we'll clean it up and stuff Maybe put a new muffler on if I can find one Remember this this engine will be sold so I gotta watch how much I put in it I can't put $35 in it and get 35 out of it or 20. That's even worse So I'll be back with you. I'm gonna let that soak up some of that water. That's in that tank Then we're going to check for spark. So here's what I was talking about If you flip like this edge or this motor over towards this exhaust Oil can run out the exhaust also if you have one of these vent tubes Like on this old Bergs and Stratton A lot of times they'll go into the carburetor And if you flip this thing up forward too much, it'll come out that It'll come out that vent tube and go right into the carburetor So be careful which way you flip these things over if you have to flip them on their side or whatever Sorry about that. But yeah, that's what can cause oil to be in your exhaust To where it's like dripping and running out In a case like that Best thing you can do Is start it up That truck did not have a front end on it. Anyway, the best thing you can do start it up You know set it level for 10 or 15 20 minutes, whatever set it level for a little bit So that way all the oil will run if you got time let it set overnight so all the oil can run back down And You know to the crankcase start it up. Let it run full throttle Don't hold the throttle full throttle, but with your With your little, you know run up full throttle just like if you was using the the piece of equipment and Let it run till it quit smoking once it quit smoking. Check your plug Make sure it didn't get fouled out if it did just clean it up a little bit It's real simple, but then after that you may still get a little smoke periodically But eventually that will go away. So don't worry about it Um, it's not that big of a deal. So what we're going to do I'm going to spray this down This choke here a little bit in there a little bit in there Yeah, this thing will smoke for sure. There we go Like I said, I'm not going to hook The governor up on it today. We're just going to see if it'll start I got to make sure when I put this cover on that I don't get this Wire touching metal. So I may tape that off We're just going to see if it'll run um Right now so A lot of guys will spray oil on these spark plugs Thinking it's going to seep down in but if that spark plugs tight And you spray that you're not really doing anything until you get it loose It's not going to help you loosen it once you get it loose a half a turn or a turn preferably Then you can spray it and then it'll go down into the threads. But remember that's That's tight when that's tight. It's meant to hold compression if it's going to hold compression Any of this stuff? I don't care crude oil whatever you you Your favorite thing is is not going to creep down in there Even after months of setting because that is made to hold compression It's not going to let anything in it if it doesn't let anything out. It's not going to let anything in it especially like 90 pounder compression let sound a small engine up to 150 pound on that thing. There's no way so But so what I just did there I could let it sit there for months It's not going to do anything until once you once you get enough backed out enough To where it can get on to a thread then yes, it will work But just but to to spray them down because they're tight. That's not going to help loosen them So yeah, I'm still waiting on this to Do whatever it's going to do and see soaking wet So Yeah, it's pretty nasty down in there. I'm going to spend a little time try to clean this out a little bit This carburetor would need rebuilt And really the only thing there is to rebuild this carburetor Is uh, you got a tube That goes down to the bottom Into the tank sometimes that'll get gummed up and fall off and whatever And some of these they don't make the tubes anymore You got to make them But really all you get there's a little Like a washer here and There's a Inside of here. There's a a diaphragm That diaphragm is uh, really your fuel pump to pump it up Pump your fuel up in here and then it's got a little once the pumps fuel up in there. It's got a little well And that's what it sucks the fuel out of is that little well It doesn't actually suck it clear up from the bottom of the tank to run The pump pumps it up into that little well, but we'll get to that later. Maybe if we do a revisit on this thing Um, like I said, it's never I'm never going to rebuild it but uh, we'll just play around with it and But today the main thing is just to get it running. So Let me let that sift for a little bit. I'll clean that out blow it out with some air Just to keep most of the stuff from sucking up I don't I don't look for this carburetor to make it sit here and run We'll probably have to do that with squirting gas and also this I don't have a this should have a bolt for this thing And it won't run right without that bolt. So I find something to stick in there Yeah, hopefully it doesn't come loose and fall down in there suck into the engine, but that's okay Oh, I still got to check and see what year this engine is. I'm thinking it's a 74 because like I said the uh Wherever I put it all it's something over there the sticker's gone off of it A lot of times they're stamped it actually stamped into the metal but Um, so I can't show you that another way to tell is inside this flywheel if you take this flywheel off Uh, a lot of times they're inside the flywheel will tell you and this is a cast iron flywheel It's not aluminum and I think a lot of reason they went with The aluminum flywheels Not only for for the weight reduction, but also These cast iron flywheels are heavy just called them heavy the heavy flywheels And a lot of times that will share the key just sitting there running because they were so heavy That's why you gotta make sure if you got an aluminum flywheel make sure this is very tight So, uh, yeah, let me get this cleaned out and then we'll move on all right guys, so Like I said, I'm just going to put a piece of tape over this thing for right now because It's nothing to shut these things off uh, you can just take a screwdriver short to plug out or Cover that up So let's go ahead and put this on. I got this oiled up lubricated lubricated this if you ever start something up And you hear it's like screaming really loud. This is your problem here But there's a little seal there But I shot some I turned it up and shot some uh some of this stuff in it Because I remember it doing that last time we had it running so Did I have to take this wheel off or something? That bolts loose so I'm guessing yes So let's take this wheel off Take this wheel back on Just so it's not messing with us story time back in about I don't know 2012 When I was living in Cambridge, Ohio Old cousin Kev you've heard some stories about him before him and I was working on this old weed eater that somebody gave me And it kept flooding out flooding out finally I got the carburetor to start flooding out But by then it had already filled the exhaust up with fuel We started it and It started right up then was running good and revved it up a couple times In a backfire When it did it just kind of caught on fire by the time gas was leaking everywhere. I just sat it down and walked away and Kev was like And I just let it sit there and burn it finally went out Kev said you know I would have gave you $20 for that weed eater. I said well now you can have it for free Hahaha True story I found some bolts Well, I found two That should be enough Should be enough to get this thing to start. There's not a lot of horsepower here guys, but Remember it's missing that muffler over there. So we got to be careful That we don't get a lot of gas around there because if we do It'll backfire Even what even if they don't backfire there's flames coming out that exhaust so Could catch on fire I don't want to do that. All right, I got a I want to go ahead Tighten this bottom bolt. It's gonna It's going to take a minute, especially if I keep dropping it like that. We'll get that tightened up Again, now we're going to check for spark. Okay. Now, let's get to the spark. I did uh I do have a spark checker in there. Well, I have several of them that'll tell me whether it's getting spark to the plug But when I had that off of there I spun that Flywheel back and forth and I could feel I could feel it so I think the points are okay. So we're going to pull this out And check it first. Let me run that across the The wire wheel real quick. Okay, so I just ran it across the Wire wheel a little bit there. Let's see If this thing's gonna have any spark You probably won't be able to see this but I can't see it Okay, it's kind of hit and miss Okay, let me check something. So I took the points out This is what it was this wire was broke off of here. So it was barely touching That's why it's getting intermittent intermittent sparks. I'm going to head and solder that back on I'm going to put the points back in Let's try it again Okay guys, so We're going to be looking at This right here. See that spark and that's the old plug. Turn it if that'll help you any See it? What are the points? It was my kill wire where it plugs on. It goes in the points and there's a spring That holds it up on that holds the wire into that hole And the wire was a little bit too long It was grounding out. So it was just like Shotting it on and off All right, let me get some gas I'm going to put this in I'm going to use the old plug. I got a newer one here But since this one's sparking We're going to go ahead and I'm going to tighten that down And uh, let's get some gas. We'll put some gas in here Is it going to run? Yeah, I think it's going to run But I don't think it's going to stay running because it's carburetors In bad shape, but anyway Let's see what we can do. Okay, let's put some gas in here Wow, that almost filled it up Now we'll put our lid back on Hopefully we don't have a fire Well, since there's no switch Let's go ahead. I'm going to back you guys out And let's uh Try to start this thing up Raise you up here a little bit Whoa Now Let's try to start it What do you guys think? Think it'll run? I didn't put any gas in the carb or anything, but Let's try it Second crank it fired must be sucking some fuel up out of that tank, which is surprising Oh, no All right No, it's too small. Let me get that fixed. All right, let's try this again Sounds like it has a stuck valve. Okay Let's yank his head off here. It'll only take a minute Let's see if we got a stuck valve. I think we do See intake valve the one that's open there This one here It should be opening and closing. That's exhaust valve. It's working This one's not So See it's starting to work now It's working sounds a little clunky. Let's go ahead and fire it up now. I'll put that head back on real quick I'll speed you up through that And uh This thing back together All right Let's see if it'll run now No, I didn't torque them head bolts down. This is It's not a 500 horse Corvette it's It is what it is Let's try it 1970 I don't know. Let me check. Okay guys I went ahead and pulled that back off and looked at the flywheel And uh, it's 72 So Providing that's original flywheel Which I think it is because the points when I took the points out to solder that wire back on Um, it still had the briggs and stratton the diamond symbol on the points. So I'm thinking those are original points Or close to it Anyway, there it is One more time. Let's see if it'll start up It's cold down now That's a good engine. That'd be a good engine to put on a bicycle Monkey said well, why don't you do that? But I don't have parts We'll get the parts like to see how low I can get them idle before they die. This is pretty cool. I've seen you these before that's uh Gekko egg Okay, so anyway, there you go. That's pretty cool. Um I can't believe that carburetor's running with all that water I took out of it and had a bad smell and It was sitting there for four years since I've had it without being run It wasn't covered up either. I just had I just had that sitting on it just like that so Pretty cool. I should run a motor. I think we'll do a revisit on this hook the governor back up and everything and get it running To where it doesn't hesitate when you give a wide open I I think I can just run some cleaner through the tank and I think that'll take care of it But yeah, pretty cool. Thanks for watching guys. J. Bear's met the main ledger. I'm gone for now. Uh, oh Yeah, monkey's out the hospital with her mom She got something on her ankle and is afraid it might be a blood clot. So They're just waiting on test results. So hopefully everything will be all right there All right guys. Thanks for watching. Have a great weekend We'll see you in the next one. Bye. Bye and take care It's better than that nerd to come see over there