1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Get new ones from Home Depot and bribe them with tacos

 

You know whats nice? Awd lawn mowers. Makes going from house to house easy.

 

they're usually relatively simple machines. Get a rebuild kit and basically just take the thing apart and replace all the stuff in the kit, clean it, and put it back together.

 

Im sure there are a million places that fix them around you.

 

My lawn mower is rwd self propelled but makes god awful noises when you try to make it go haha.. runs great though

 

Mine was running shitty, so I cleaned the air filter. It was completely clogged.

Like I said, they're simple machines - not very many moving parts.

 

Mine is self propelled when when im to lazy to walk i ride it...
Makes doing large lawns really easy though

 

What are you afraid of? Dude, you resurrected a submerged vehicle. You can do this.

 

You know, I honestly thought you misspelled another word here, but you got this one right!

 

Of course, I say all this, and I have this tow motor thing for my trailer that I can't get to run, lol.

It's a 4hp B&S that's for moving aircraft. I have it to park my RV trailer. F-ing thing won't run. Was running like crap and the carb was getting pretty oxidized so I'm like what the hell, new carb is $15. Put it on - won't run. WTF...

I just haven't really had time to sit there and tear into it. Who knows, might be the wrong carb because the fuel bulb doesn't sound like its sucking fuel in...

 

well that was fun...security at our building just yelled over the PA system "EVERYONE OUT OF THE BUILDING NOW!"

we've had fire alarms go off before and had to evacuate but not a PA announcement, got my blood pumping

turned out to be a false fire alarm and I guess security decided to announce it since half of us ignore the fire alarm haha.

 

I can calibrate submersible pressure transducers, but how to you calibrate a carb?

 

they aren't that frigile. If anything, out tacoma motors with 6 cylinders, timing chains, water pumps etc... are more fragile.

 

Usually a screwdriver and some brass jets

 

I've got a dirtbike, I can to jets. But these carbs are basically a hole with a butterfly valve. Not much to mess with.

 

Belt
Timing belt
V6 doesn’t have a chain

 

Right? lol

I might just try putting the old carb back on and at least see if it'll start again.

 

You know about that eh?

I though we were the only ones that calibrated them in the field. It really sucks when you have a 125psi transducer going in a 1200' hole, then calibrate through its whole range.

Most other contractors we know just take the manufacturer's value as gospel.

 

Yes I know, I've changed mine. just a slip of the tongue.

It's good to see someone else being a hardass and getting all "technical"
(not just me, lol)

 

We recently switched to In Situ. Used to run cambell scientific and druks.