Fantastic re-power video! I remember doing that with my father back in 1980 Lots of fun and laughter with much satisfaction when we finished. I was just 10 yrs old and working with my dad I was absorbing all that he could teach. 👍
You Know spring has sprung when it's time to fix the old Tiller/dirt scratcher, Love the Harbor Fright reference's, I hate Coupons, but my wife makes me use them, What's that dear? No dear I'm not watching Taryl Fixes All! I'm watching Painting with Bob Ross... Yes to keep my Blood Pressure down. Thank You dear for reminding me...
While welding is the best way in that application someone without a welder can grind the side of the bolt head flush with the shank to make basically half of a T-bolt. They can finish the work and tach weld the T-bolt later without an engine pull if desired. Ebay has many spacers and tapped and flanged bungs and bushings made by machinists as a way to earn side money with chucker lathes etc (it's easy to make a bucket of parts with little effort). I use them for all sorts of fixes (including adding NPT drain plugs to automatic transmission oil pans by welding the flange after drilling with a step bit). A threaded bung can we an instant "weld on threaded hole".
The Loncin equivalent of the Predator is a popular replacement in the UK for repowering Merry tillers and old cylinder/reel mowers with defunct Tecumseh, Briggs and Scrapem's and other engines. The Wolseley Merry Tillers were fantastic pieces of kit as you could power other tools off them from mowers to hedge trimmers. I do have a brochure on them and its amazing what other uses they could be used for. Back in the day they were Britain's most popular tillers. Sadly people in the UK decided that cheaper made machines were much better for their wallet and some people didn't garden like they did when Merr Tiller was in its prime.
This one is one of the earlier models, we have one and a major one of the last before Woolsey dropped machine manufacture and just went with plumbing. Both are powered by brakes n scrapem engines. Glad you turned the speed down Taryal, slippers needs to do the same.
I really enjoyed you both in these videos, first I thought it was to much for my brain to follow two projects at once, but I adapted and overcame, thank you both for all your experience, loved it
Nice work! I re-powered a mtd tiller with the engine off one of those junk crapsman snow blowers that the trans dies after one winter😂. Installed an air filter box and boom, a nice electric start tiller!
Happy Easter! I wanna swap an engine on my old 90s MTD snowblower.Everything works good besides surface rust everywhere and a worn out engine due to the last owner not changing the oil. It bogs after a medium load just barely walking it. I found a NOS 5.5HP Tecumseh which would be great because my Tecumseh always starts very very nice. But on the MTD it’s 2 shafts and the new engine for sale is 1 shaft. So it either flipping the transmission or I think it’s possible to take apart the first engine and take out the cam and case and swap it over it the new one to make it 2 shaft. But I don’t know if it’s possible and probably cost more than it’s worth than to buy a new snowblower if a shop does the work. But if I were to do it I would save money.
Great job recycling these tillers, and very informative too. I'm glad the old Merry Tiller engine isnt a total goner, but will be able to help power a new project. Happy Easter to all.
My favorite part about our old mower that I got to use as a kid was the throttle control. I was 8 years old in 1972 and would rev it up and slow it down just for the fun of it. I still mow lawns now I am 60 but use a rider and yes it has a throttle control!
The belt drive on Slippers' tiller looks like it was designed by Gilson. I came across a Gilson for free on Craigslist--8hp beast with a variable speed drive on the wheels. I actually had it running, the smoke screen hid me from all enemies and mosquitoes, so i found a new 8hp briggs on a western auto tiller with a broken shifter fork. I haven started trying to swap because i know I'm going to have to machine a lot of new obsolete parts for that vari-drive setup, so in my barn it sits. Bearings and dust seals were always the big problems on old tillers.
I have a two tillers here very much like the Murray you have there, but mine has a centrifugal clutch type pulley. I've been nursing the old Briggs & Stratton 5hp because I've not had any luck getting the pulley or clutch off, and I'm not spending $75 for a new one. I've got both a new Honda 5hp and a 6.5hp Predator just waiting for a home but so far the BS motor is still working. I've also got an older Gilson tiller, sold by Spiegel that's super fast, its 100% original but its got no throttle, just a Forward, Neurtal, Reverse lever. The throttle has three settings, Idle, Run, and Choke. If you loose your grip on it, it'll take off and its faster than I can run. I loaded it to the neighbor 20 years ago, warned him about not letting it go, and a hour later I hear a ton of screaming and hollering in his back yard. He let his wife use the tiller while he worked on the garden fence. She was a small woman, maybe 100lbs tops, She apparently hit some roots in the ground, the tiller caught the roots, and ripped itself from her hands, it then jumped out of the trench, proceded to gather up a 10ft length of chicken wire fence he was working on, then it ripped through the rear hedge row, and headed for the highway. If it hadn't of hit some curbing and turned toward the drain basin along the road it would have likely either gone into traffic or crossed the highway and continued until it either hit something or ran out of gas. It was wide open throttle and in gear with a full tank of gas. His wife, younger than either of us, took off running after it, she only caught it after it hit some phone poles that were sitting on the ground forcing it to turn to the left, it was pawing at the hill on an angle when she caught up with it. She managed to get a hand on the left handle bar but it pulled away from her. She caught up with it again and managed to upset it and it stalled. He went and got his truck to retrieve it, I waited and drank my beer. No damage was done to the tiller, but it took an hour to cut the mangled chicken wire off the tines and from around the axle. The rear guide bar had fallen off as it went though the hedge row, but we told her that the pin was missing, she spent several hours looking for it in the dark in the field out back. We finished off the rest of the beer while she was out looking for that clevis pin and hairpin, and we found the pin near the hedges in the grass. Somehow we forgot to tell her, at least until we needed more beer. She wasn't happy when she finally gave up and walked back to the garage and saw the pin she was hunting for for hours back where it belongs. She never asked to try using that thing again. By the time the next season came around, she was gone and he had a new wife, who never asked to run the tiller. After a few years there, he found and bought his own tiller, just like mine, but he had someone put a lanyard attachment on it so if it got away, it would kill the motor. He did that after he left his running to warm it up and it jumped into gear and mauled the door on his new truck,
Great job, I notice on TH-cam a lot of folks try putting those motors on Snow blowers especially Ariens and they can’t get the belt and pulley cover back on , that seems like a big issue to me due to snow and water getting in there while using causing everything to slip and get sloppy.
A great video bringing the tillers back to life those Predtor engines you should of used the side out muffler deflectors the Stens # 110-414 Honda 18331-E3-811 to deflect the exhaust to the PTO side not on the operator. since this Predator engine uses a foam air filter its best to do what i done i replaced mine with a Tecumseh OEM filter the Stens 056-050 Tecumseh 36046 for the 5 hp Tecumseh Enduro engine that fits these non hemi Predator engines. the ones you and Slippers used are made by Chonquing Ratio Power Mfg Inc as those engines the parts from Honda will transfer over to this predator 212cc item# 69730 as at least the mufflers did not need modifications but if you use these engines to repower a yard vacuum or a MTD chipper Shredder the muffler has to be modified or tweaked . as that video you did a while back when you repowered a pull behind vacuul you used the Predator item # 60363 212cc engine which is made by Loncin which is the HEMI engine. as those two engines are preferred they have metal camshafts. but avoid the Predator Max Performance 224 cc engine item # 57493 they have a PLASTIC camshaft in the engine and problems with the engine. the 212cc 69730 engine is the preferred choice for a repower the engines use a 3/4 crankshaft some equipment like vacuums you need to find an adapter online to adapt the Predator engine's 3/4 shaft to the 1 inch shaft thats keyed thats what i faced when i repowered a Cyclone Rake replacing the Tecumseh engine with this 69730 engine the mods was the muffler had to get a special pipe welded to bring the muffler inwards plus the crankshaft adapter and a 5/16 fine thread grade 8 bolt. as this was about 10 years i swapped this motor as at the time the engine was on sale with a coupon at $89.99 but now $150 what slippers said the inflation. as my 212cc predator engines on my Cub cadet 2 stage snow thrower, the cyclone Rake commercial , and this Predator 212cc pressure washer they don't see much use its seasonal for the other 2 engines the pressure washer not much use as i empty the fuel tanks on these engines and empty the carburetors before storing. as so far my 212cc engines all the 69730 never let me down . when i installed them i did slow it down using the adjustment screw.
I like the gel lube stuff, unfortunately the can I bought from you guys quite some time ago exploded in my cabinet 😢. Bummer lol. Guess I will have to order another one. Great vids as always!
I put a 212 on my 1970's Toro 7/24 blower and wow does that sucker blow snow!!! Pretty easy conversion as well... just had to modify the belt guard a bit.
Nuts on the outside is always smart for serviceability, but as I found out the hard way one day, it’s definitely frowned upon on the golf course. Paid for 18, escorted to the parking lot after 6. Not my fault when they price beer 6 for $10.
When putting on the new cable, this application won't slip, but on bigger and harder loads, if you put the nut side saddle on the loose end it can pull out! NEVER SADDLE A DEAD HORSE, the saddle being the side of the clamp the nuts are on ! The dead horse being the loose side of the loop! LOVE the knee pad board ' im 'stealing that easy to carry idea!
The idler usually just drops via gravity on the Merry Tiller as far as I'm aware. Mine does. I removed the old 3hp Briggs and put a 5hp Briggs on it. Works nicely.
I have used both those tillers and still have them. Those squeeze handles for your tiller engagement wear out your hand if using them very long. I recommend sliding a ring or metal hose clamp over the lever loosely so you can pull it back easily to stop tines.
I have a 25 hp kohler comand that I just put rings in and it's doing good other than a slight miss that goes away when I put it under a load and it black smokes while throttling up then seems to run fine,i guess it's running rich. Is this going to shorten the life of my new piston rings? Can we get a video on fixing the black smoke upon aceleration
Great job y'all! I noticed the tines were good on them as well and that's always a plus for tillers! I have one of the Merry tillers like that, I think mine is a little smaller though. It needs an engine as well. Nice to see y'all ''Resurrecting'' something on Easter! Was that the plan?🤔😀
I, also, put a Predator 212 on a garden tiller that was much bigger than those, and it was 2wd using the gearbox from a lawn tractor, so it had gears! (3+R) The Predator engine was still more powerful than the original. i eliminated the throttle control from the handle bars, but I still wanted it to return to idle when stationary. I simply added a cable to the clutch lever then routed it to the governor. It worked very well...until I put the engine on the stretched & slammed John Deere 180 Mokart, that I built.
I bought a tiller from Lowe's and the assembler put the belts on wrong. When I started it, it started moving and tilling all by itself even though it was in neutral. Luckily it didn't run over anything before I could shut it off. I switched the belts and it worked fine.
Have you not heard of the saying "Never saddle a dead horse" which refers to how to put on a cable clamp. The saddle being the u-bolt of the clamp. You put yours on backward by putting your saddle on the dead end of the cable
The Onan CCKB in my old bobcat died. Im going to replace it with a 670 predator. I know the Vanguard 23hp is likely a better choice, but im primarily just going to use it for personal snow removal here in Nebraska. Let me know your thoughts. They will be appreciated. Doc Martin
I learned that old hammer trick 50 years ago from my Aunt she made a head gasket from a milk carton and it worked great got the job done till parts could be bought wasn’t any shops within 70 miles any direction
I got an early 60’s Huffy Broadlawn 26”, that I’ve been restoring ,, needs a blade. I believe it called for a 24 or 25 1/2” blade. Which I can’t find. Every one I’ve tried so far, the holes don’t line up. It was an 8 hp, now it’s got an 11 hp revtek. The exhaust needs to be modified so the pedal comes all the way back and so I don’t burn my foot, and a couple of odds and ends, to finish.
Taryl excels in diagnosing and repairing small engines and garden equipment. But the other talent he exhibits that is easily overlooked is his fabrication skill. I would offer that a proper size pulley setup may be preferable to changing the WOT adjustment depending on how well that new engine handles the work load while actually tilling. That Predator is likely engineered to deliver peak horsepower, torque and fuel economy at a specific rpm band and slowing it down too much could impair both function and durability of the engine. Perhaps check rpms under load to assure the engine is not lugging too much.
Just did this to 2 troy built horse tillers...Awesome direct drive tillers that can be had cheap today..700 to 1200 back in the 70s and you can get the for 50 to 300 today.
I have a Troybilt Cultivator Plus that uses a Merry Tiller gearbox. They are a little rare, I have only seen three of them. Didn't make them for long, maybe just a year or two.
Terrell is a better mechanic than he is welder. I hope he doesn't expect those welds to hold up, because there was no surface preparation at all. I have to admire the fact that he's brave enough to weld without welding gloves! Anyway if you add up the cost of labor and the engine, it Is much more than buying a new one. But it's always a pleasure watching the master at work. And teaching his apprentice.
The Predator engines are OK... I appreciate the TH-cam members who have put them to the test. Although not necessarily the best motors, they are one of the best values.
I put a predator on my dad's old Garden Way made Troy-Bilt. I guess it was back in '21. It was very easy, all I had to do was use a spacer to get the shaft length to be correct for pulley placement. Three years later and it's still going strong.
Happy Easter grass rats!
* & keep that grass deep to hide eggs!
Fantastic re-power video! I remember doing that with my father back in 1980
Lots of fun and laughter with much satisfaction when we finished. I was just 10 yrs old and working with my dad I was absorbing all that he could teach. 👍
You Know spring has sprung when it's time to fix the old Tiller/dirt scratcher, Love the Harbor Fright reference's, I hate Coupons, but my wife makes me use them, What's that dear? No dear I'm not watching Taryl Fixes All! I'm watching Painting with Bob Ross... Yes to keep my Blood Pressure down. Thank You dear for reminding me...
😂😂😂👍
Did she ask you "ARE YOU WATCHING THAT BUCK TOOTH RED BEXK AGAIN"
no Dear iam Watching Boss Ross happy Accidents
While welding is the best way in that application someone without a welder can grind the side of the bolt head flush with the shank to make basically half of a T-bolt. They can finish the work and tach weld the T-bolt later without an engine pull if desired.
Ebay has many spacers and tapped and flanged bungs and bushings made by machinists as a way to earn side money with chucker lathes etc (it's easy to make a bucket of parts with little effort).
I use them for all sorts of fixes (including adding NPT drain plugs to automatic transmission oil pans by welding the flange after drilling with a step bit). A threaded bung can we an instant "weld on threaded hole".
Happy easter everybody👍👍👍👍☕☕
Happy Easter
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Happy Easter to you and yours
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What a fantastic show today!! Thanks for teaching us how to purchase a junk machine and replace an engine!❤ Happy Easter Jesus is the only way 🙏
Happy easter everyone oh yeah checking the oil every eight hours that was a good one
Happy Easter guys.
I am glad that you made the video, really shows what involved in changing out the engine.
Thank you for your time. Happy Easter
Gotta love the way Taryl sharpens the tines on his tiller.
Great Job guys! Happy Easter everyone!!
The Loncin equivalent of the Predator is a popular replacement in the UK for repowering Merry tillers and old cylinder/reel mowers with defunct Tecumseh, Briggs and Scrapem's and other engines.
The Wolseley Merry Tillers were fantastic pieces of kit as you could power other tools off them from mowers to hedge trimmers. I do have a brochure on them and its amazing what other uses they could be used for. Back in the day they were Britain's most popular tillers. Sadly people in the UK decided that cheaper made machines were much better for their wallet and some people didn't garden like they did when Merr Tiller was in its prime.
This one is one of the earlier models, we have one and a major one of the last before Woolsey dropped machine manufacture and just went with plumbing. Both are powered by brakes n scrapem engines.
Glad you turned the speed down Taryal, slippers needs to do the same.
33:10 Slippers speaks for all of us!
Thank you Taryl!
34:49 Slippers speaks for all of us!
Life's good. Nice long video of Taryl and slippers. Life's Good
Happy Easter guys!
Bought the scraper today!
HAPPY EASTER TARYL, AND ALL YOU GRASS RATS.
I really enjoyed you both in these videos, first I thought it was to much for my brain to follow two projects at once, but I adapted and overcame, thank you both for all your experience, loved it
Happy Easter from North Dakota
Nice work! I re-powered a mtd tiller with the engine off one of those junk crapsman snow blowers that the trans dies after one winter😂. Installed an air filter box and boom, a nice electric start tiller!
Happy Easter GOD BLESS you all
Happy Easter! I wanna swap an engine on my old 90s MTD snowblower.Everything works good besides surface rust everywhere and a worn out engine due to the last owner not changing the oil. It bogs after a medium load just barely walking it. I found a NOS 5.5HP Tecumseh which would be great because my Tecumseh always starts very very nice. But on the MTD it’s 2 shafts and the new engine for sale is 1 shaft. So it either flipping the transmission or I think it’s possible to take apart the first engine and take out the cam and case and swap it over it the new one to make it 2 shaft. But I don’t know if it’s possible and probably cost more than it’s worth than to buy a new snowblower if a shop does the work. But if I were to do it I would save money.
Great job recycling these tillers, and very informative too. I'm glad the old Merry Tiller engine isnt a total goner, but will be able to help power a new project. Happy Easter to all.
I like how you timed pouring gas with welding without burning the shop down.
Love your videos Taryl!!!
My favorite part about our old mower that I got to use as a kid was the throttle control. I was 8 years old in 1972 and would rev it up and slow it down just for the fun of it. I still mow lawns now I am 60 but use a rider and yes it has a throttle control!
Bringing old machinery back to life, loved it.
The belt drive on Slippers' tiller looks like it was designed by Gilson. I came across a Gilson for free on Craigslist--8hp beast with a variable speed drive on the wheels. I actually had it running, the smoke screen hid me from all enemies and mosquitoes, so i found a new 8hp briggs on a western auto tiller with a broken shifter fork. I haven started trying to swap because i know I'm going to have to machine a lot of new obsolete parts for that vari-drive setup, so in my barn it sits.
Bearings and dust seals were always the big problems on old tillers.
Awesome video God Bless you and your family Amen
I have a two tillers here very much like the Murray you have there, but mine has a centrifugal clutch type pulley. I've been nursing the old Briggs & Stratton 5hp because I've not had any luck getting the pulley or clutch off, and I'm not spending $75 for a new one.
I've got both a new Honda 5hp and a 6.5hp Predator just waiting for a home but so far the BS motor is still working.
I've also got an older Gilson tiller, sold by Spiegel that's super fast, its 100% original but its got no throttle, just a Forward, Neurtal, Reverse lever. The throttle has three settings, Idle, Run, and Choke. If you loose your grip on it, it'll take off and its faster than I can run. I loaded it to the neighbor 20 years ago, warned him about not letting it go, and a hour later I hear a ton of screaming and hollering in his back yard. He let his wife use the tiller while he worked on the garden fence. She was a small woman, maybe 100lbs tops, She apparently hit some roots in the ground, the tiller caught the roots, and ripped itself from her hands, it then jumped out of the trench, proceded to gather up a 10ft length of chicken wire fence he was working on, then it ripped through the rear hedge row, and headed for the highway. If it hadn't of hit some curbing and turned toward the drain basin along the road it would have likely either gone into traffic or crossed the highway and continued until it either hit something or ran out of gas. It was wide open throttle and in gear with a full tank of gas.
His wife, younger than either of us, took off running after it, she only caught it after it hit some phone poles that were sitting on the ground forcing it to turn to the left, it was pawing at the hill on an angle when she caught up with it. She managed to get a hand on the left handle bar but it pulled away from her. She caught up with it again and managed to upset it and it stalled. He went and got his truck to retrieve it, I waited and drank my beer.
No damage was done to the tiller, but it took an hour to cut the mangled chicken wire off the tines and from around the axle. The rear guide bar had fallen off as it went though the hedge row, but we told her that the pin was missing, she spent several hours looking for it in the dark in the field out back. We finished off the rest of the beer while she was out looking for that clevis pin and hairpin, and we found the pin near the hedges in the grass. Somehow we forgot to tell her, at least until we needed more beer.
She wasn't happy when she finally gave up and walked back to the garage and saw the pin she was hunting for for hours back where it belongs.
She never asked to try using that thing again. By the time the next season came around, she was gone and he had a new wife, who never asked to run the tiller. After a few years there, he found and bought his own tiller, just like mine, but he had someone put a lanyard attachment on it so if it got away, it would kill the motor. He did that after he left his running to warm it up and it jumped into gear and mauled the door on his new truck,
I like the way you hammered out a cardboad template for your engine mount!
😊 great job guys thanks
Happy Easter from Illinois, and thank you for being patient with slippers, he does try
Nice job old boy and happy Easter 😅.
Great job guys. Don’t know why but I kinda like those mantis tillers. So light weight but still very powerful. Maybe I’ll get one someday
Two stroke ones are good as they have a ECHO made engine. The Honda engine ones are good but the little two stroke ones do tend to be a bit better.
CONGRATULATIONS on 400k!!! 🎉 🎊🙌🙌🙌. Thank you for all your entertaining videos and the shop is coming along great!
Great job, I notice on TH-cam a lot of folks try putting those motors on Snow blowers especially Ariens and they can’t get the belt and pulley cover back on , that seems like a big issue to me due to snow and water getting in there while using causing everything to slip and get sloppy.
Great job man keep up the great work on your business
I really enjoy your instructional videos Taryl! (Sp)(sorry) Happy Easter to you and yours!!
Go Team Taryl, Slippers is goin' down. Wooo
A great video bringing the tillers back to life those Predtor engines you should of used the side out muffler deflectors the Stens # 110-414 Honda 18331-E3-811 to deflect the exhaust to the PTO side not on the operator. since this Predator engine uses a foam air filter its best to do what i done i replaced mine with a Tecumseh OEM filter the Stens 056-050 Tecumseh 36046 for the 5 hp Tecumseh Enduro engine that fits these non hemi Predator engines. the ones you and Slippers used are made by Chonquing Ratio Power Mfg Inc as those engines the parts from Honda will transfer over to this predator 212cc item# 69730 as at least the mufflers did not need modifications but if you use these engines to repower a yard vacuum or a MTD chipper Shredder the muffler has to be modified or tweaked . as that video you did a while back when you repowered a pull behind vacuul you used the Predator item # 60363 212cc engine which is made by Loncin which is the HEMI engine. as those two engines are preferred they have metal camshafts. but avoid the Predator Max Performance 224 cc engine item # 57493 they have a PLASTIC camshaft in the engine and problems with the engine. the 212cc 69730 engine is the preferred choice for a repower the engines use a 3/4 crankshaft some equipment like vacuums you need to find an adapter online to adapt the Predator engine's 3/4 shaft to the 1 inch shaft thats keyed thats what i faced when i repowered a Cyclone Rake replacing the Tecumseh engine with this 69730 engine the mods was the muffler had to get a special pipe welded to bring the muffler inwards plus the crankshaft adapter and a 5/16 fine thread grade 8 bolt. as this was about 10 years i swapped this motor as at the time the engine was on sale with a coupon at $89.99 but now $150 what slippers said the inflation. as my 212cc predator engines on my Cub cadet 2 stage snow thrower, the cyclone Rake commercial , and this Predator 212cc pressure washer they don't see much use its seasonal for the other 2 engines the pressure washer not much use as i empty the fuel tanks on these engines and empty the carburetors before storing. as so far my 212cc engines all the 69730 never let me down . when i installed them i did slow it down using the adjustment screw.
Happy Easter
I got the same tiller as Slippers, but it's red (faded) and it's a MTD. Still runs. From late 80's. Gonna pull it out and use it this week.
A Blessed Day for sure ❤❤❤
Nice job you 2,Happy Easter.
I like the gel lube stuff, unfortunately the can I bought from you guys quite some time ago exploded in my cabinet 😢. Bummer lol. Guess I will have to order another one. Great vids as always!
Cool build and fun to watch. Cheers!
I put a 212 on my 1970's Toro 7/24 blower and wow does that sucker blow snow!!! Pretty easy conversion as well... just had to modify the belt guard a bit.
Nuts on the outside is always smart for serviceability, but as I found out the hard way one day, it’s definitely frowned upon on the golf course. Paid for 18, escorted to the parking lot after 6. Not my fault when they price beer 6 for $10.
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Had his nuts on the outside.
When putting on the new cable, this application won't slip, but on bigger and harder loads, if you put the nut side saddle on the loose end it can pull out! NEVER SADDLE A DEAD HORSE, the saddle being the side of the clamp the nuts are on ! The dead horse being the loose side of the loop! LOVE the knee pad board ' im 'stealing that easy to carry idea!
The idler usually just drops via gravity on the Merry Tiller as far as I'm aware. Mine does. I removed the old 3hp Briggs and put a 5hp Briggs on it. Works nicely.
I have used both those tillers and still have them. Those squeeze handles for your tiller engagement wear out your hand if using them very long. I recommend sliding a ring or metal hose clamp over the lever loosely so you can pull it back easily to stop tines.
HAPPY EASTER TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!
I just rebuilt a bridge of Stratton for Tiller this week . It had no points or electronic. 1965 wizard from Western auto.
knee pads or you will be sorry later or raise it up so you can sit
He's been doing this stuff for 30 some years I'm surprised his knees aren't already shot.😮
I have a 25 hp kohler comand that I just put rings in and it's doing good other than a slight miss that goes away when I put it under a load and it black smokes while throttling up then seems to run fine,i guess it's running rich. Is this going to shorten the life of my new piston rings? Can we get a video on fixing the black smoke upon aceleration
Great video once again Taryl and Slippers
Great job y'all! I noticed the tines were good on them as well and that's always a plus for tillers! I have one of the Merry tillers like that, I think mine is a little smaller though. It needs an engine as well. Nice to see y'all ''Resurrecting'' something on Easter! Was that the plan?🤔😀
Happy Easter engines boys. Been looking at those predator engines, not bad! 👍
I, also, put a Predator 212 on a garden tiller that was much bigger than those, and it was 2wd using the gearbox from a lawn tractor, so it had gears! (3+R) The Predator engine was still more powerful than the original.
i eliminated the throttle control from the handle bars, but I still wanted it to return to idle when stationary. I simply added a cable to the clutch lever then routed it to the governor.
It worked very well...until I put the engine on the stretched & slammed John Deere 180 Mokart, that I built.
I bought a tiller from Lowe's and the assembler put the belts on wrong. When I started it, it started moving and tilling all by itself even though it was in neutral. Luckily it didn't run over anything before I could shut it off. I switched the belts and it worked fine.
I love tillers! Great video!😀
Happy, Blessed, and Safe Easter everyone! :) :)
Have you not heard of the saying "Never saddle a dead horse" which refers to how to put on a cable clamp. The saddle being the u-bolt of the clamp. You put yours on backward by putting your saddle on the dead end of the cable
Slippers, cook us all up something for Easter dinner! It's nice to see slippers working....
Happy Easter, Taryl and Slippers!
Thank you for sharing.👍
The Onan CCKB in my old bobcat died. Im going to replace it with a 670 predator. I know the Vanguard 23hp is likely a better choice, but im primarily just going to use it for personal snow removal here in Nebraska.
Let me know your thoughts. They will be appreciated.
Doc Martin
Happy Easter.
I learned that old hammer trick 50 years ago from my Aunt she made a head gasket from a milk carton and it worked great got the job done till parts could be bought wasn’t any shops within 70 miles any direction
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Did slippers give you the $9.50 for the three washers?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I got an early 60’s Huffy Broadlawn 26”, that I’ve been restoring ,, needs a blade. I believe it called for a 24 or 25 1/2” blade. Which I can’t find. Every one I’ve tried so far, the holes don’t line up. It was an 8 hp, now it’s got an 11 hp revtek. The exhaust needs to be modified so the pedal comes all the way back and so I don’t burn my foot, and a couple of odds and ends, to finish.
Taryl excels in diagnosing and repairing small engines and garden equipment. But the other talent he exhibits that is easily overlooked is his fabrication skill. I would offer that a proper size pulley setup may be preferable to changing the WOT adjustment depending on how well that new engine handles the work load while actually tilling. That Predator is likely engineered to deliver peak horsepower, torque and fuel economy at a specific rpm band and slowing it down too much could impair both function and durability of the engine. Perhaps check rpms under load to assure the engine is not lugging too much.
Happy Easter everybody!
Happy Easter to you and the family!
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That was a great video ! I really enjoyed it..😄
nice work Slippers
I got me a hand me down 1994 MTD rear tine tiller it has been sitting for a while it has a b&s 5hp motor would I come out better repowering it ?
Great video
Just did this to 2 troy built horse tillers...Awesome direct drive tillers that can be had cheap today..700 to 1200 back in the 70s and you can get the for 50 to 300 today.
Tarryl cant compete with Slippers, hes just too sharp a dude!!
Slippers is poring gasoline and Taryl is welding! BOOM!🤣Happy Easter fellas!
I have a Troybilt Cultivator Plus that uses a Merry Tiller gearbox. They are a little rare, I have only seen three of them. Didn't make them for long, maybe just a year or two.
I'd take some Seal-all and maybe a diagramfram and have that Briggs doing in no time. Got 2 like it on the shelf right now.
Terrell is a better mechanic than he is welder. I hope he doesn't expect those welds to hold up, because there was no surface preparation at all. I have to admire the fact that he's brave enough to weld without welding gloves! Anyway if you add up the cost of labor and the engine, it Is much more than buying a new one. But it's always a pleasure watching the master at work. And teaching his apprentice.
Awesome video
I came to watch the skit and repair, but stayed for Taryl’s signature Heat Quench
Heat shrink tubing will also work to feed cable thru handles also
Happy Easter great video 👍
I put a predator on a troy built hourse rear tine tiller. Had to by pass the low oil shut off. Other wise when tilling the angle would shut it down.
The Predator engines are OK... I appreciate the TH-cam members who have put them to the test. Although not necessarily the best motors, they are one of the best values.
Hey slip dog got lucky with putting his engine on happy Easter slipster😂😂
Taryl's a CAD operator! Cardboard Aided Drafting
Nice job men.
Those Predator engines are really pretty decent and easy to service too. I like the low oil cutoff feature.
Awesome old school best
I put a predator on my dad's old Garden Way made Troy-Bilt. I guess it was back in '21. It was very easy, all I had to do was use a spacer to get the shaft length to be correct for pulley placement. Three years later and it's still going strong.
HAPPY EASTER YOUALL! Looks like Slippers got to be the lucky one on this one.
Have you ever made a lawn mower racer show what you've done in the breakdown