What are you currently working on??

Propane1 said:
The MF8E is looking good Doug. Do you have weights on it ? More snow for us here too, tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday. Hopefully it goes away. No grass growing here yet.
Truck is usable again. To bad they rust away.

Noel
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No wheel weights Noel. I could put the ones from the MF12G on it and may do so yet. I've got a pile of barbell weights laying around here that I have intended to adapt to weights for it. Ain't got round tuit yet. I used it for a quarter of a century without weights so I guess there's no hurry.

This darn cold has kept me from doing most anything where I have to look down today. Nose runs when I look down, and most all workbench related stuff requires that. I got the manual out for the 12G to read up on leveling the cutting deck. That's about it.

DAC
 
Was out looking at another box for my truck. It was damaged and thought that if its not rusted out and in good shape where mine is rusted, I figured I might be able to cut out the bad in mine, cut out the good in the other box and match the two together. Would be a lot of work thou, so looked at this other box and its three times as bad as mine, its an 2006 and mine is 2005. So that spot in those ranger boxes must be a bad spot in most of them. I seen a few rangers lately with the box hanging down from being rusted.

Noel
 
Got this little cultivator from a friend last year. It needed a fuel line. I put a new fuel line, filter, grommet & pump ball on. Its flooding bad when I tried to start it. I pulled the plug out, gas ran out, cleaned it & spark is good. Gas is blowing out the exhaust when I crank it. The firing chamber is getting too much fuel causing it to flood. I guess I'll pull the carb off & check that out. I've never worked on one of these little carbs before. I'm not sure what to look for as far as why so much gas is getting into the fireing chamber.
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I got this fuel line kit off of Ebay for 6.16 with free shipping.
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I had a chainsaw like that. Never could get it fixed. changed every thing like you did. Had the carb apart a million times or so. No go, pull it over twice and would be full of fuel in cylinder.
Used it for some parts for my other saw.

Noel
 
There’s got to be a trick to them. I’ve got a leaf blower that I can’t get to run well. Even put a new carb on it. Starts well but acts like it’s starving for fuel. Dad had a string trimmer did the same thing. Would love to know how to make them work again.
 
Glad I'm not the only one who fights with the small 2cyl engines. I have 2 or three weed eaters/blowers that won't run right no matter what I do to them.

Worked on the bee hive last night. I lost one hive over the winter, wasn't large enough of a cluster to make it through the polar freeze we had.
Other hive is small, but I have all sizes of brood/larvae so queen is laying. Maybe I will get some honey this year
 
Another who has fits with the small 2 cycle stuff yet I seem to have alot less problem with bigger 2 cycles like outboard boat motors. Motorcycles and 4 wheeler 2 cycles also drive me nuts, though I haven't had to fart with any of those in years.
Today? Just trying to get thru the work day. Then to list a couple of push mowers on the CL circus once I get home.
 
Had to get back into the JD 265 today! Remember this is a Kohler V-Twin repower. Anyways, I started it several days ago. Let it run for a few minutes.
Went to start it the next day, no go! Got crazy with the carb cleaner and blew one end out of the muffler. :eek: OOPS! Decided I would find it's issue today!
Took all the air cleaner housing off, pulled the NEW solenoid out of the NEW carb. Tested it and it's bad. Got the old one from the other carb and it still worked. :thumbs: Tried to start it. Nope, wasn't happening. Checked spark, compression (thumb over plug hole), pulled the valve covers. Valves are working. Gotta be the flywheel key. :mad: Took the top off the engine and made my way down to the flywheel. Got it pulled and sure enough, I had sheared the STEEL key. :mad: :mad: Found a replacement in my stash. Got the flywheel back on, reset the magnetos to spec. Hit the key and it fired back off. Took another hour to reinstall all the parts. Waiting for the local Atwoods to get some Argon mix gas for my welder so I can try to fix the muffler. Been 3 weeks now! :mad: :mad: :mad:
 
Dang Kenny, isn't there a welding supply shop somewhere in your area? Atwoods must not be!

All I have done is shovel some snow and take a couple pictures after work tonight. My wife made a pot of chili when she got home from work so I probably won't do anything in the shop tonight besides be on the 'net for a while.

DAC
 
Propane1 said:
Will hot sauce fix the potato bugs I get ?

Noel
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Use Tempo on those bugs. Very Safe insecticide . Would be great for potatoes as never have to be concerned about over spray on the taters. I use I all the time around and in the house for those pesky little sugar ants and spiders. Can buy it by the box of packets, one packer makes 3 gal of spray. Kind of expensive but well worth the cost for the results.
 
Intake manifold on a Wisconsin 7 hp. Went to start it on the EK7 yesterday and would turn over good but no fire. Shot of starting fluid and I got moisture out the top of the manifold right at the gasket. Gasket was knew last fall when I got it going. Started and ran good then, even mowed with it some. Time to flatten out a warped manifold. To nasty to be outside today anyway.
 
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