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This is a victory. We all learned something. . Thanks for not giving up.

I stopped watching at the 10min mark, realized that THIS person doesn't have a clue about ICE. Those nuts he removed hold the carb to the engine, without which he had a MASSIVE air leak between the carb and the engine getting SUPER LEAN mixture! Engine would NEVER START in this condition! Even with the carb PROPERLY attached, the thing NEEDS priming, at least a couple of squeezes of the primer bulb!

I parked the pos and bought a J Deere zero turn I don't have a lift and a fully furnished shop.

Thank you for taking the time out, to show use what the problem could be.

My advice, get battery powered.

Somebody gave me a 2 yr. old, beautiful condition Toro self propelled mower last year that would not start. You couldn't hardly pull the rope. She had already bought a new $600 Honda and didn't want the old one. When I got to checking it I found that someone had put the bail in the wrong holes which made the cable too long to work. Sold it in the church yard sale for $100. Life is good.

what size shoe do you wear

Thank you very many. I like the way the video went. Looking forward to more.

at what point is it just cheaper to buy a new mower and accept that they only run for a few years.

I’m glad you don’t have to go to work at MacDonald’s. I did it for a while and I didn’t like it.

Thanks, same problem, discovered after I removed vand cleaned carb

Thank you. Can’t figure why you must remove back pulley? I assume you cannot slip belt over it. Just looking seems like you could just slide belt over. I’m getting ready to do this today so I’m sure I will get it. Haha.

How do you fix the last part that was broken? Unless I missed it, you said what the issue was but didn’t show how to fix that.

Man you’re the man. I have a similar situation but haven’t checked it yet. This is going to help me from getting frustrated. Sorry you had to get this way but you stuck with it and found the problem. Looking forward to seeing more videos to solving strange situations.🫵☝️

I will look into mine,been working on it for last 3 days on a 500e briggs and stratton

Learning is ALWAYS worthwhile ! Great persistence btw.

Wow.....dude doesn't have a clue....no need to remove pulleys.

Thank you for that wrinkle, I usually attack the carb' next time I'll check this out.

"We" wanted to see the fire!!:) Thanks for your help and humor:)))))))

I kept trying to work on the carb today on a Toro Recycler with no luck. Tomorrow I am going to try what you found with this mower! Thanks for posting this, even though this is two years old I am sure this is going to help other folks.

U didn't take out the spark plug or nothing you're brave man !!

Way this sabre are tu laugh

Why not ultra sonic plastic? It would only depend on what kind of chemical you have in the sonic bath. I put dentures in ultrasonic

You could do the whole jobb without taking the front pulley off. Take off the stearing wheel and top plate, and then just loosen the clutch pulleys. 30 min job.

What was the belt size ?

Omg I'm glad I came across this video. My mower is having issues staying running. I thought carb or fuel line. Well I'll check this first. Thank you.

Thank you so very much for this video. I went through the same thing as you and was discouraged. I checked the cable and found the same problem. The cable was rusty, and slighly stretched. It's working now. Thank you again!

These things are frustrating for sure. I've been working on mine for about 6 days. Lots of things are the same. Mower was running fine and then got sick and then quit all together. Cleaned the carb and adjusted the valves. After re-assembling it would run for a few seconds and then die. Adjusted the valves again, same. Changed the plug, same. Turned out the shear pin came apart and the flywheel was off. Got that fixed. Still the same. Finally ordered a new plastic "disposable" carburetor. It runs now but not the best. I got one more thing to check on the carb and while I'm at it I will look at the brake and see if that might be it. One thing is for sure. I can tear this damn thing apart and put it back together blindfolded now.

dent in flywheel key from hitting something hard!

Thank you for the video

Drug a mower out of a shop outside bay, where it'd been abandoned and sat for 15 years or so. The absolute first thing I did was take off all that brake and remote throttle control crap. Put the kill wire back where the original ones were. Got rid of that stupid long pull rope, that didn't work anyway and put a new shorter one on. Put gas in it, primed it and it started on the third pull. Dont trust any of that "safety" crap.

Perseverance

By the looks of your picture your taking this way way to hard!!

I Think It Needs A New Metal Carborator. I Never Heard Of Plastic Carborators.

Just wanted to share with you all my problems on our riding mower would not start. When I pulled the dead kill wire off the coil. The mower started and stayed running. Since something so simple can cause hours of headaches

Think you so much. My mower did the same thing and I couldn’t get it to stay running. Now since you showed what your problem was on this mower. Tomorrow I’m going back out there and see if that’s my problem.

I FEEL YOUR FRUSTATION

You gotta admire his honesty! A true mechanic!

Just remove it

All that n cant see it in action ..what a waste of time.

I had this exact problem last week. Sometimes it wouldn’t start at all and sometimes start and then knock off. Was driving me crazy too. Ended up being a stretched cable. Also had rust internally within the cable connection closest to the engine. Slapped on a new cable and healed it. Thanks for making this video. Saved my bacon.

Someone brought me one 6-7yrs ago that took me 2 days to notice their handle was bent. Only one I encountered. Ive never seen one this worn yet but with all the chit steel today Im surprised its not real common.

Joe, I happen to have a 16 HP Bunton with a 52" deck and a B&S 16 hp Vanguard engine. Long story but got this from commercial mower in around 2003 and had never mowed with it. Lent it to a friend before he bought a JD diesel Tractor with a belly mower. He passed 2 years ago (Marine from La June and it was the big "C" that took him). Anyway, my riding mower broken it's PTO cable, got one from Amazon and within a month it broke the China cast aluminum lever bolt bracket so ordered one from the factory. Talked to my friends widow and collected the Bunton last night. Mowed the back today and it's a beast and I came in sweating and broken down. I'm an old man (74) and this thing for all it can do is still a beast and a chore to operate. But grease fittings everywhere and was not built with planned obsolescence. I plan to have a surrey built to ride on as I have store bought knees. Let me know if you need advice. Mine runs like a top.

the "Never Give Up Spirit"!!! Yup, you worked hard for that one but we can all relate...Thank you! (My honest first guess from the title was going to be the gas cap wasn't venting like on a Steve's Small Engine Saloon...I too was wrong.)

Great video and great title music! 🤘🏻

I had five mowers in the past two years do that same thing and I removed that whole brake system and just put a toggle switch to shut off the mower.

Is this a video about trenching or showing everybody how you can’t weld?

This made me laugh so hard

I know you got this one running. I'm not sure you know this, but sometimes a mower won't start simply because of a bad gas cap

You and me both. Never is that simple.