Trashed Engine Powered Wagon. Let's Fix It.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- a friend found this DR powerwagon at an estate sale for $50, then contacted me, its in real sad shape, looks like it crashed down a hill at some point then parked outside. lets see if we can fix it back up.
Mustie is like “Saturday” morning cartoons for scrappers/tinkerers! Always a treat.
Couldn't have said it better!! ;-]
Top tip - use zip ties as filler rods when plastic welding with a soldering iron 👍
Great idea!
I've had good success with JB weld on plastic gas tanks
honestly plastic welding is weak jb weld is best
Mustie, I love your persistence. Clutch spring mixing? No problem, just make one.
I'm sure your wife will be happy with it. Plastic welding fun fun use a stained glass soldering iron next time and some zip ties as the filler. It works great. 👍🏻
+1 on the zip ties, works for small bumper cracks too 👍
Another Mustie1 success.
Yay!
Thanks for taking us along for the ride.
Nice job bringing it back Mustie! I'm sure your wife will enjoy it.
Fyi, a trick that can use is plastic zip ties can be melted to patch holes...an old electric glue gun can work...
Also, you can consider using some aluminum welding rod..and a piece of aluminum patch. You'd just have to disassemble the transmission and clean the part...but it could maybe help. Mapp gas on a propane torch head.
Hope these ideas help. Good luck, sir!
Good morning motor wrenchin’ friends! Sunday morning with Mustie!!!!
Those rope plugs have saved my bacon on countless occasions. I carry them in pretty much every vehicle I own. Bikes, cars, you name it.
Great little wagon, I have the exact same one we use it on a tree service hauling logs out of residential backyards I swear the thing has no limit. It also comes with a seat that you can hook up to the little hitch and pull yourself around with it as well. Definitely the lazy man wagon LOL cool find love the vids
Just what I was thinking Mike S. Like you see on those Chinese Tiller tractor things. Apparently DR call it a sulky and from looking at some images it's something Mustie could knock up in an hour or three. As always an interesting project Mustie.
…….or maybe make up a stand on 2 wheel trolly and attach it to the plate with the hole on the back?
I'd replace that snap ring on the top of the clutch if I was you Mustie. It is obviously malfuntioning as it didn't perform a trans-dimensional warp jump when it flew off.
Great drop Mustie1...my pop's had one of these..they are great machine's...I would like to ask the Mustie1 nation to keep Brent at HALF-ASS KUSTOMS in their prayer's...he lost his entire shop to fire last week!!! He has 20+ years of badass hot rod build's from this shop...🙏🙏🙏😜✔️👀👍😎⭐💯
Thanks for that Jim. I forgot.
That carb is a fascinating exercise in cost cutting. Plastic bowl/float/seat and the body looks like a simple extrusion with cross drilled passages vs a complex cast part.
Plastic bowls also cut down on carb corrosion/clogs. The modern push mowers that say "mow n stow" on them have all plastic body carbs, and they don't clog until dirty fuel goes through them...and when that happens, they are easy/fast to clean as you only need to blow out the jets.
a good perk to a plastic carb is that they don't corrode (they tend to get less plugged up). I'm still not sure i prefer them per say, but it's a definite silver lining.
That aluminium extrusion would help as a heat sink to avoid vapour lock
Your selection of unique vehicles makes me your channel my favourite gasoline engine channel. 💟
Darren, if you cut strips from sn oil bottle, you can melt that into the holes on the tank with a soldering iron or soldering gun. Its the same plastic (HDPE). I recently did this on a generator gas tank that got a saw cut when, apparently, they used it for a saw horse.
Dang that's a good tip - thanks for the info!
Congrats Mustie1 on getting the Dr Power Wagon running and working good. Wife will love-it..
I'm watching this very closely. Never fixed anything in my life. My dad passed 3 years ago and I now moved in with my mom to help her. This garden wagon has been on eof the best helpers hauling in wood for the wood stove and me trying to get my moms yard "dejungled". Went it to get fixed last year at some local place. They had it for 3 months. They also "fixed the big ride on mower TWICE last summer. We had use of it for maybe 2 weeks. I finally went out and bout a propelled push mower to mow 3 acres!! It ran ok a couple of timers. Now barely idles. And dies once you put it into gear. I have to spray fluid in the side hole just to start it each time. We wasted $597for "fixing it".
But I love it so I'm determined to get it running right again. I have too many memories with my dad and this power wagon.
Great video. Plastic zip ties work well for welding the polythene tanks with a Weller soldering gun . managed it several times and looks neat.
You are absolutely correct. I think he needed to be just a little bit hotter. The electric soldering iron with a small spade attachment that would work well. I don’t know very much, but I have seen others do it quite effectively.
@@reubencohen7097 yes the plastic weld as such usually looks like a mig weld and very neat. The added advantage is that you can use different coloured zip ties to match whatever you are polythene welding.
Another Sunday morning with my VW Bus mug full of coffee and a new Mustie video, perfect 👍
Actually I did that to a lawn mower several years ago and I just drilled tapped 6 10/32 holes around the hole and made a rubber Gasket and screwed a piece of steel plate over it and it never leaked again.
You don't wanna make the patch too Big. Just big enough to cover the whole.
Person that bailed on this at $500 dodged a bullet imo. Nice work fixing all these problems M!
A little piece of metal screen melted in to plastic helps sometimes too especially with HDPE plastic. Helps the bond and acts as reinforcement. The screen melts right in when you heat it with the iron then ya just add a bit on top and smooth it out....Anyway, great vid as usual Mustie! Always good to hang out and watch over your shoulder...forever learning!😉💥💢💥👌👍👊💪🤙
Not seen whole video yet, but I seen a chap filling holes in plastic, by melting cable ties, love your work mustie, best channel
I bought that machine over 20+ years ago with electric start. I use it mostly for hauling large log rounds out of my woods. I ended up building a removable boom with a small Harbor Freight 12 v winch on it so I can load the logs easily, or snake a log out of the brush using a snatch-block setup. It works great and saves my back every day. I put tall stake sides on the box so I can stack several rows, depending on the log sizes. Of course, I have to be careful that I don't make it too top heavy so it doesn't tip over, but all in all, when used right it gets the job done every time. It's used for everything around the property.
Funny how ya almost heard me......"Put a pipe on it" "put a wet rag on it n heat it" hey.....he heard me!
Brilliant! As a former shop teacher who taught welding I found this particularly interesting. Thanks for posting!
this channel is awesome best stuff I’ve watched ever wish I had this 40 years ago to grow up watching !
I am officially addicted to this channel. ASE Master Tech here many years ago.
Unusual and great machine built for a specific purpose. I'm glad you brought it back to life and didn't have to invest much into it at all! Watching you work is a thrill and I'm grateful for you sharing these videos with the world. Thank you Mustie1 and I hope your wife enjoys her new powered wheelbarrow!
I can’t get over how many projects he takes on and completes! Amazes me! 😮
Yeah. Completing them is the bit I get stuck on 😂
Current one is braking system on a car trailer. I hope to complete that soon though, because me will likely need to move some cars in the coming 6 months or so.
He doesn’t work
Handy little machine for us "over 50" guys who spent too many years abusing our bodies ...
Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
This is the first time I’d ever seen a gas powered Wheelbarrow, I thought it was a wonky object, until I saw you hauling logs! Then I saw the practicality!
I was just waiting for Darren to do his usual victory lap through the sand pit with the cart at the end of the video which would have been something. Being from Danvers I noted the Danvers Ford tee shirt. This was a nice video with not too many problems to shift through. Once again Darren's dialog as he works makes his videos so superior and enjoyable to others. Sunday morning's with Mustie1 has to be a must for all his followers.
I am not looking around for similar channels for that very reason. Darren's dialog, style and approach is superior and he gets right to it and doesn't feel the need to do the talking head routine (his face in front of the camera) like so many others. Other channels are often just intolerable with music and an intro scheme, etc., etc.
@@Hjerte_Verke Boy.....you and I are on the same page here. I'm a retired industrial mechanic and while every day I worked on more problems that I could count I don't think I could ever explain to someone every move I was doing. Darren has a special gift in captivating an audience. I gave him a Homelite generator and power washer a year or so ago and I even watched with great interest to those. His is the only repair site that I've watched but on the few sites that I do on other subjects the dead air sometimes can drive you nuts.
Plastic tank tip: Years ago I had a leak in my 2002 Ford Ranger tank (plastic). I took my time and did a real pretty repair using JB weld. It lasted about 2 months. I made a second attemp with similar results.... Couple months and it started dripping again. I needed to get to work and didn't have time to spend on a super nice repair so out of desperation I grabbed my hot glue gun and my Gorilla glue sticks. Climbed under the truck while the gas was dripping, I wiped a big scmeckling of hot glue on a putty knife and wiped it all over the previous repairs.... Thick and ugly. I went to work figuring I would be digging into it again over the weekend but to my surprise it held up great. That was probably 3 years ago and it's still holding.
Brilliant episode. Classic Mustie! Thanks! 😃 👍
I could watch Mustie all day. I just love the things he brings back to life. He should have his own tv channel. 🔧👍🇬🇧
I'm watching on a 52" with sound through the 5.1 system. 8/10 Highly recommend.
@@bend3rbot Me too!
He was offered a tv show turned it down because he wouldn’t have enough time to explain what he was doing and not doing He talks about in a Q&A video
@@w.jamesgurniak9543 yeah, I remember that One. It’s the TV company’s loss. Thanx for your input. Keep enjoying Mustie. 👍🇬🇧
I was really expecting this guy to have hydraulic or electric dump, oh well. An excellent fix as always!
You need a Dickie seat like on the old lawnmowers to attach to the rear bracket above the single wheel so you can tootle along in fourth gear 👍🇬🇧
Really nice vehicle. Lol your wife saying that you get all the good stuff. Darren this would be perfect for your wife for her garden chores. Nice way to haul topsoil and manure. Have lots of fun watching you get things back in good condition.
That was an impressive nest, you do get some weird but wonderful contraptions. I guess if there is a need for something like that some one would build it.
Power buggies are common machines on construction jobs. But this really isn't the popular model you usually see.
Love the creativity you show in making repairs
Love your enthusiasm and your gas powered soul, Brother!
Coffee and mustie , 50 bucks? Wow what a deal to get a machine like that. Nice wrenchen good job bringing it back.
Awesome fix.. always amazed how you find solutions and fixes to whatever you come across.. always learning by watching.. appreciate you sharing your day with us 😊🔧🇺🇸🛠️👍
Thanks for the shop time Mustie1! Awesome rescue!
Nice find, great fix! Looks like a useful back saver.
If you take a small hot glue gun and insert zip ties instead of the glue sticks it melts nicely to weld plastics especially if you heat the area that needs fixing. Thought it may be helpful. I enjoy your vids! 👍
Hey Mustie1 , Those Transmissions don't use any fluid, they use the grey Peerless Bentonite Grease ... You can actually see some of it oozing out around that gap... Also doesn't look like there is much or any in that lower area at that hole...
I think I have about 4 of that same transmission if you need one I'd send it to you (just cover shipping) or deliver... In CT here...
You need to add a seat in the back with a couple more wheels for support and stability. Then it would be very cool.
Nah, less is more
YEAH
Build rickshaw to hook to rear out of bicycle wheels
Sunday morning with Mustie1. I watch before church nearly every week. This was a good one. Thank you. :)
One accessory that you don't have, but would be nice - That machine can tow a ride on seat. It already has a tongue hitch, all you need is a trailed unit with a seat on it, or even just a low platform so the operator can stand on it. Either way, it would make those higher gears more worthwhile. I have a similar setup at home, and really can save your legs as you get older. 👍
That would explain why 4th gear is so "quick"
Ah that "towed seat" might be referred to as a sulky. Many of the industrial walk behind mowers have such a contraption.
DR had an optional seat sulky for it. Ours has one.
This reminds me of the grown-up version of the tricycle with a dump bed on it I had when I was young. I could always convince my little sister that I wouldn't dump her out but I was a mischievous little rascal and would dump her out again. She was a slow learner.
You should add a skid plate to it to make sure it doesn’t bottom out. I am sure that’s how the initial hole developed in the first place. Love the videos!!
I am absolutley blown away, kids have such great imaginations. Those sculptures were so cool. Thanks for sharing
Great project and video, as always. You, andrew camrata, and Eric O are my fav channels. Never change!
Thanks buddy I always look forword to Sundays!!
These things are amazing! I had a newer version with hydraulic dump. Paid $500 for it and used it for three years and then sold it for $800 during covid.
Gotta love a profit.
Hi, good stuff, just needs a seat on wheels to hook on the rear for long trips to the dump, haha. Mnay thanks from UK.
Great for a building site with poor access to the rear of a property. You could carry cement bags in it for example. You could also modify it by putting a small platform on wheels by the handle bar making it proper transport 😊
exactly, I was thinking it needs a platform you can stand on.
Great machine for the wife. Outstanding for garden work.
Thanks Mustie, great video! I learned some repair tricks from watching this one. I hope TH-cam's algorithym will let these great video's continue.
Great find put a seat on it be laughing 😅😂 great little bugy,thanks for sharing, all the best to you and your loved ones
That is a very cool piece! I didn’t think you were gonna get away with straightening the axle without snapping the case. Another great rebuild man. We all appreciate your videos. I was given a 25 year old snapper rider that I’m just getting into. Carb rebuild done, now it runs. I just have to sort out the rear differential.
Neat machine. I enjoyed watching the repairs.
👍👌👏 2) Happy wife, happy life.
Best regards, luck and especially health to both of you.
Great video! As usual you do a great job describing how things work for those of us that are not mechanics! Thanks!
Hi mustie. I worked for a parks department in England in the 70's. We had one of these, it was called an 'auto barrow'. Originally it would have had a removable seat on wheels which connected to the bracket at the back of the engine. It was lethal to operate, as it would jackknife at the drop of a hat, especially when unladen. It also had the nasty habit of tipping up if overloaded,so you can imagine how that ended should you be the unfortunate seated operative 🤕
It was nice seeing some of the old projects next to the cabin. How about an update video how some of those previous projects are working and if you had to do anymore repairs.
I was a bit skeptical to watch this as motorised wheel barrows arent really my thang but this was great! thank you!
I was convinced your crude spring for that clutch was not going to work. But then you cranked it up and it worked perfectly first try. YOU are the man. You are the Mustie1.
You could use 00 corn head grease in that gearbox. It does not flow when its not being stirred.
Pretty clutch little thing. I like how you find these unusual things. Thanks for sharing.
We are glad you got that that axle back to good enough shape. Mrs Mustie will love it 😄
Mustie1, Good find and great work (as usual) getting it running, clutch fixed, holes filled and expecially the axle straightened! Paint it whatever color the wife wants and you have a free “get out of doghouse” card for awhile!
He needs to put the wife in it and ride her around the yard while he records it.
That was a good video. Repairs turned out well. The only iffy part is the repair in the tranny. It to bad you couldn’t have tig welded the tranny for a permanent fix. I like watching you for the large variety of equipment you work on. Thank you!!!
That wheel alignment looks like tire tilt on young guy's BMW😂
Score, great job as always.!
I wonder if a sit-down modification (a 2 wheeled ' back end of a trike' frame that's hinged on the plate above the single wheel) might make for an interesting 'Part 2' to this?
I was thinking a stand on platform that trails behind.
I suggest a good quality Gas Tank Repair Kit. That is if you can't for whatever reason just weld the aluminum/aluminium. Great project!
Should put like a skid plate with two wheels to pull. Instead of walking, you can ride around your property. Great repair video as always!
How would you steer it?
Fantastic and visually pleasing. Great tool for small acreage! Hope da wife enjoys!
You always find the coolest stuff ! I’ve never even seen one of those . I’m familiar with power ride on carts . I’m in construction and sometimes the concrete contractors use them for floor pours . Pretty cool machine . Thanks Mustie !
Yep. I can see the misses putting around the yard, tending to her flower gardens with this cool little machine. LOL
Mustie1, if the transmission leaks, you might consider fiberglass/resin and maybe the metal sheet as a skid plate.
What it needs is a stand on platform behind the single rear wheel. Interesting and unusual little truck.
Great morning with Mustie!
Wow. You make it so easy. Only for one like you with an immense skill set.
Another unique machine brought back to life. Bending that axle was classic Musti1, how you did it and the results.
Love starting Sunday morning with Musti1 and a cup of coffee.
You bring us much joy, hope your headaches are better/gone.
Awesome little dump barrow, wife's gonna love it.
Thanks for the video
That's a very handy machine for your wife and relative easy to fix this was a very informative video thank you for sharing this six stars brother
He took the words right out of my mouth it’s a neat little machine now a skid plate a added pull behind seat and remote start would be good additions 😊
You should put a platform on the back of it to stand on. I think the tab sticking out over the castor wheel is where the OE one attaches. Then you wouldn't even have to walk behind it.
They have a sulky as an option, I have one.
Steering might be an issue…
@@davedickinson822 true but on the straight away you could cane it in top gear 🤣
@@davedickinson822 When you have a seat it is linked to the free wheel in the back to do the steering.
Perfect project for us junk collectors! Only needs 5hp without having to drive blades. Junk lawnmower meet junk frame! (and roadside stove sheet metal, heh) Thanks Mr.Mustie!
Really enjoy watching you work with your hands and figuring out issues! Old skills, love ❤️ it!!
With the bent axle, it looked like it could be used to mix paint the way the bed moved.
I like how you think out loud in real time especially when troubleshooting. I’ve learned a ton from watching you work and thanks for that.
Just got back from the night job. Good morning Musties!
Enjoy Your Sunday
Enjoy watching your projects. When clamping a weird shape try small bean bags or sand bags and a ratchet strap. Just my 2cents.
Thanks and keep them videos coming .
Did it leak on the bent axel? Crazy how you were able to mostly true that up, I would have pulled it out but what you did seemed to work out.
That's always the comforting part of tire patching, making the hole even bigger first! LOL! Great video.
Darrin, part two...add / build a sulky for that contraption!
Also maybe a single leaf spring adapter to create two wheel trailing castors.
(by then Mrs. Mustie will want electric start option too!)
Really nice back saver. Well worth $50.00 great job Mr.