I got one of my riding mowers with the exact same issue. A neighbor of mine owned this mower for years and always had to help it past the compression stroke for it to start. It has the same engine. She hit something one day and the engine came to a dead stop and would never turn over again, even by hand. She took it to a local shadetree mechanic who happened to be a friend of mine. This was before I started getting into small engines. He diagnosed the mower with a locked up engine, and of course she declined the repair and it was left in his yard for several years. When he was forced to move, he gave me all of the abandoned machines that he had. Since he told me the engine was locked up, I never even checked and used it as a parts machine. I robbed parts of of it while it sat in my back yard for a couple of years, before I finally decided to strip it down and scrap it. When I started tearing the engine down, I realized that it wasn't locked up. It was building too much compression. I checked the valves, and they were totally out of spec. I did a valve adjustment, sprayed some ether in the intake, and it fired right up. I spent the next year replacing the parts I robbed, before realizing that the deck was shot. It got parked for several years, before I got running again a couple of weeks ago. It hasn't cut grass in ten years, but it's running great. Hopefully I will find a parts machine at some point.
Those Briggs engine cover bolts are the bane of my existence. Every time I take them off, I end up losing at least one of them. I had a GCV160 sit fully disassembled in my kitchen and later in my shop for over a year without losing anything, but I always lose one of these bolts when I take them off, lol.
I've had the valve cover off on these engines countless times. I never bothered to reseal them, and never had one leak.........until I bragged about it on the internet. Life has a way of humbling you, lol.
A valve adjustment on one of these engines was the first job on a riding mower that I ever did when I started teaching myself. Even a total novice with no training can do it.
Easy flips are nice. I paid $6 a couple of weeks ago for a 2017 Toro Personal Pace mower with a Briggs 7.25. It had a piece of grass stuck in the pilot jet. That was all that was wrong with it. It runs great. After a filter and oil change, I am only about $12 into it, so I should make a little bit on it.
At this point, the first thing I do on any OHV machine after I check the oil is to check the valves. Of the machines I have gotten for free, that is the second most common cause, other than carb issues.
I love to see a video on that generator or that antique Honda machine by the garage. I have just started venturing out into generators, and recently acquired my first one. It is an 18 year old generator that had never been out of the box. I got it out and got it running, but the recoil was so brittle that it exploded after about ten pulls. It is a Honda clone of some type, and the engine doesn't have a model number, so I haven't been able to find a new recoil for it.
Recent story about mobile mechanics: my niece and I decided to part out her 2008 Chrysler Town & Country minivan after the engine just packed it in and gave up. At 232k, it didn’t owe her anything more and it was cheap to buy originally. She listed parts on Facebook, and a guy contacted her about rear calipers for his 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan. So I took them off, and told her they were ready. Guy asked for the pads and rotors (they have less than 200 miles on them) and for a headlight. I told her I’d sell the rotors for resurfacing, and that the headlight from a T&C doesn’t fit that year Grand Caravan… only 2011+ fit. He told her he was a mobile mechanic, and laughed at her reply with “who told you that”? Well, she said that her uncle, me, who is a mechanic with a shop, told her. He vanished and never bought the parts. My guess is he was going to use these calipers NOT on his project van but a customer van. Sketchy if he doesn’t know what works with what. Beware. 🙄
Six hundred hours isn't that much. Most mowers are rated for 1500, so that one should have some life left in it. My primary mower is a year older with 99 more hours on it, and though I had to give it a refresh this year, it's still going strong.
Love how you do your videos. Speaking of why and what your doing as you do it. If your wrong or screw up it's right there, not like videos of other TH-cam channels where everything goes as planned without problems. B.S. 💩 There is always problems, right?!🤔 Anyways, I'd go to Amazon and for $69 get a set of front rims with tires.(2 day/free delivery w/Prime). That would dress up the mower and make it "POP". That builds a business reputation. I've gotten alot of referrals that way. Plus, I would have spent the extra $20 for the 2 deck decals on the left side. Peace out and God bless😎✌🖖🙏🤝
Thank you! I'm not perfect but I do my best to make the mower reliable at least and stand behind my stuff and not leave people hanging. I really wanted to move on the mower and figured that buying the tires would raise the value of the mower about the same as the price of the tires, so since they held air I just rolled with it as is since it's a 16 year old mower with 600 hours. Ended up selling this for $800 delivered, which is right in line with what I sell these for without the bagger during the growing season so I'll take it.
The front end is messed up on that machine. The wear pattern on the front left wheel is much more severe than the right. It probably has an issue with the left side drag link. I have a Craftsman commercial tractor what was given to me a few years ago. I noticed a similar wear pattern on one of the tires, and I noticed that the alignment wasn't correct. I went ahead and replaced both drag links, and it fixed the issue. I later got in contact with the person that owned it before the person I got it from, and found out that he had hit it with a full size tractor.
Honestly, in the six years I have been working on small engines, I have never encountered a bent push rod. As a mobile mechanic, that is likely not something that he would be riding around with in his vehicle. It may not even be something that is immediately available at the local parts store. There could be a legitimate reason that he couldn't do anything with it. If the push rod hadn't been damaged, I would have thought something dishonest was happening, but push rods are an item that the average person without 25 machines in their yard may not be able to immediately obtain.
I guess it's something you develop in time, but now I can tell immediately if the valves are out of whack on an engine by the way that it sounds and acts.
Yeah naaa, 850 dollars for a mower with bald front tires, you got to be out of your mind. All you had to do, was buy a couple of new front tires for it and mount them. If you can't mount them yourself, take the wheels and new tires, to a local tire shop, and have them mounted, cost you maybe 10 to 20 dollars for the pair, thats it. On your numerious non-stop tangents, all I am hearing is the pot calling the kettle black. You did a good job fixing the valves though, shined up the machine, but I think asking 850 for this is a big dishonest, and you come off more of a huckster in this case. I am sure you will find some sucker to buy though.
A mobile mechanic could not fix it 😕😔 what is the that piece of equipment with the v twin cylinder engine on your trailer that looks like a v twin cylinder Briggs and Stratton horizontal engine
Exactly right! Ellis went on a tangent a million times about he mobile mechanic, but when the job is on Ellis, he won't even put new shoes on that machine. Turf Saver tires are about 30 a piece maximum for that machine. If you can't mount tires on your own, take the new tires and wheels, to the local tire shop, and they should do the job for about 10 bucks. Then, you can earn your 850 possibly. But that looks like a 38" deck, nobody would pay 850 around here for that mower. But I do admit, it having the bagger is nice though.
I ended up selling this mower for $800 delivered. The money I would have spent on front tires and the increase in sale price would have probably been a wash, plus the time I would have lost working on other machines sourcing and swapping the front tires. The bagger really adds to the value. I'm selling this mower to a high school friend and I stand behind what I sell, so if this mower gives issues it'll come back to me anyways. Thanks for the feedback.
@@EllisMowersandmore I appreciate that you stand behind your product. So if it does come back to you, that you will fix it. That is excellent to hear Ellis, as long as you provide a warranty on it like you say, then maybe it will be ok, especially since they are your friend, and not some stranger.
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I got one of my riding mowers with the exact same issue. A neighbor of mine owned this mower for years and always had to help it past the compression stroke for it to start. It has the same engine. She hit something one day and the engine came to a dead stop and would never turn over again, even by hand. She took it to a local shadetree mechanic who happened to be a friend of mine. This was before I started getting into small engines. He diagnosed the mower with a locked up engine, and of course she declined the repair and it was left in his yard for several years. When he was forced to move, he gave me all of the abandoned machines that he had. Since he told me the engine was locked up, I never even checked and used it as a parts machine. I robbed parts of of it while it sat in my back yard for a couple of years, before I finally decided to strip it down and scrap it. When I started tearing the engine down, I realized that it wasn't locked up. It was building too much compression. I checked the valves, and they were totally out of spec. I did a valve adjustment, sprayed some ether in the intake, and it fired right up. I spent the next year replacing the parts I robbed, before realizing that the deck was shot. It got parked for several years, before I got running again a couple of weeks ago. It hasn't cut grass in ten years, but it's running great. Hopefully I will find a parts machine at some point.
Those Briggs engine cover bolts are the bane of my existence. Every time I take them off, I end up losing at least one of them. I had a GCV160 sit fully disassembled in my kitchen and later in my shop for over a year without losing anything, but I always lose one of these bolts when I take them off, lol.
I've had the valve cover off on these engines countless times. I never bothered to reseal them, and never had one leak.........until I bragged about it on the internet. Life has a way of humbling you, lol.
He must have been after the fast bucks and no warranty 😢😢😢
A valve adjustment on one of these engines was the first job on a riding mower that I ever did when I started teaching myself. Even a total novice with no training can do it.
Easy flips are nice. I paid $6 a couple of weeks ago for a 2017 Toro Personal Pace mower with a Briggs 7.25. It had a piece of grass stuck in the pilot jet. That was all that was wrong with it. It runs great. After a filter and oil change, I am only about $12 into it, so I should make a little bit on it.
At this point, the first thing I do on any OHV machine after I check the oil is to check the valves. Of the machines I have gotten for free, that is the second most common cause, other than carb issues.
I love to see a video on that generator or that antique Honda machine by the garage. I have just started venturing out into generators, and recently acquired my first one. It is an 18 year old generator that had never been out of the box. I got it out and got it running, but the recoil was so brittle that it exploded after about ten pulls. It is a Honda clone of some type, and the engine doesn't have a model number, so I haven't been able to find a new recoil for it.
Recent story about mobile mechanics: my niece and I decided to part out her 2008 Chrysler Town & Country minivan after the engine just packed it in and gave up. At 232k, it didn’t owe her anything more and it was cheap to buy originally.
She listed parts on Facebook, and a guy contacted her about rear calipers for his 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan. So I took them off, and told her they were ready. Guy asked for the pads and rotors (they have less than 200 miles on them) and for a headlight. I told her I’d sell the rotors for resurfacing, and that the headlight from a T&C doesn’t fit that year Grand Caravan… only 2011+ fit.
He told her he was a mobile mechanic, and laughed at her reply with “who told you that”? Well, she said that her uncle, me, who is a mechanic with a shop, told her.
He vanished and never bought the parts. My guess is he was going to use these calipers NOT on his project van but a customer van. Sketchy if he doesn’t know what works with what. Beware. 🙄
That's a crazy story!
Six hundred hours isn't that much. Most mowers are rated for 1500, so that one should have some life left in it. My primary mower is a year older with 99 more hours on it, and though I had to give it a refresh this year, it's still going strong.
Love how you do your videos. Speaking of why and what your doing as you do it. If your wrong or screw up it's right there, not like videos of other TH-cam channels where everything goes as planned without problems. B.S. 💩 There is always problems, right?!🤔 Anyways, I'd go to Amazon and for $69 get a set of front rims with tires.(2 day/free delivery w/Prime). That would dress up the mower and make it "POP". That builds a business reputation. I've gotten alot of referrals that way. Plus, I would have spent the extra $20 for the 2 deck decals on the left side. Peace out and God bless😎✌🖖🙏🤝
Thank you! I'm not perfect but I do my best to make the mower reliable at least and stand behind my stuff and not leave people hanging. I really wanted to move on the mower and figured that buying the tires would raise the value of the mower about the same as the price of the tires, so since they held air I just rolled with it as is since it's a 16 year old mower with 600 hours. Ended up selling this for $800 delivered, which is right in line with what I sell these for without the bagger during the growing season so I'll take it.
The front end is messed up on that machine. The wear pattern on the front left wheel is much more severe than the right. It probably has an issue with the left side drag link. I have a Craftsman commercial tractor what was given to me a few years ago. I noticed a similar wear pattern on one of the tires, and I noticed that the alignment wasn't correct. I went ahead and replaced both drag links, and it fixed the issue. I later got in contact with the person that owned it before the person I got it from, and found out that he had hit it with a full size tractor.
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Honestly, in the six years I have been working on small engines, I have never encountered a bent push rod. As a mobile mechanic, that is likely not something that he would be riding around with in his vehicle. It may not even be something that is immediately available at the local parts store. There could be a legitimate reason that he couldn't do anything with it. If the push rod hadn't been damaged, I would have thought something dishonest was happening, but push rods are an item that the average person without 25 machines in their yard may not be able to immediately obtain.
I guess it's something you develop in time, but now I can tell immediately if the valves are out of whack on an engine by the way that it sounds and acts.
Hey Ellis I got that same generator and it needs work...will you be doing a video on it?
It turns out it did not need anything besides new plugs.
Yeah naaa, 850 dollars for a mower with bald front tires, you got to be out of your mind. All you had to do, was buy a couple of new front tires for it and mount them. If you can't mount them yourself, take the wheels and new tires, to a local tire shop, and have them mounted, cost you maybe 10 to 20 dollars for the pair, thats it. On your numerious non-stop tangents, all I am hearing is the pot calling the kettle black. You did a good job fixing the valves though, shined up the machine, but I think asking 850 for this is a big dishonest, and you come off more of a huckster in this case. I am sure you will find some sucker to buy though.
A mobile mechanic could not fix it 😕😔 what is the that piece of equipment with the v twin cylinder engine on your trailer that looks like a v twin cylinder Briggs and Stratton horizontal engine
It is a pretty big generator someone wanted me to look at for them. 23hp Briggs Vanguard.
@EllisMowersandmore that is a great engine on this high Watt generator
You have basically nothing in it and couldn’t at least put some cheap new front tires on it and still want good money for it.
Exactly right! Ellis went on a tangent a million times about he mobile mechanic, but when the job is on Ellis, he won't even put new shoes on that machine. Turf Saver tires are about 30 a piece maximum for that machine. If you can't mount tires on your own, take the new tires and wheels, to the local tire shop, and they should do the job for about 10 bucks. Then, you can earn your 850 possibly. But that looks like a 38" deck, nobody would pay 850 around here for that mower. But I do admit, it having the bagger is nice though.
I ended up selling this mower for $800 delivered. The money I would have spent on front tires and the increase in sale price would have probably been a wash, plus the time I would have lost working on other machines sourcing and swapping the front tires. The bagger really adds to the value. I'm selling this mower to a high school friend and I stand behind what I sell, so if this mower gives issues it'll come back to me anyways. Thanks for the feedback.
@@EllisMowersandmore I appreciate that you stand behind your product. So if it does come back to you, that you will fix it. That is excellent to hear Ellis, as long as you provide a warranty on it like you say, then maybe it will be ok, especially since they are your friend, and not some stranger.