How to fix a 2 cycle tiller that has been sitting and won't start. Powermore Southland or Earthquake
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This is a good example of how a person with experience can make a big difference. Here, even a super qualified car, truck mechanic would have not known about the viability of those aftermarket carbs. Thanks chickmechanic!
Still just a cultivator. Where is the real tiller....lol.
Great job girl.
Just FYI I am having techs watch your videos for training purposes. You keep it simple and practical.
Great video. I have a Ryobi weed whacker that my neighbor threw out because he said it didn't run. Had been sitting so long that the fuel lines rotted off. New fuel lines and a aftermarket carb and it started right up. I have been using it for six years!
Holy cow ! With an air filter like that one it's a wonder the guy's mower even ran till the end of last summer. Good vid, Bree
If there's one thing I've figured out after 30+ years of home ownership and working on everything from 2 stroke motorcycles or V-8 engines, there's always something to be learned (or re-learned). Thanks for all the information you pass on.
Clogged spark arrester was the best one I’ve learned here so far!
i forget something new everyday.
Good vid, I have had success with HIPA aftermarket carbs in the specific applications that I used them on.
That’s a damn good job. I find working on small engines more maddening than working on Land Rovers. You make it look easy. And those hornets get into EVERYTHING
But please don't kill them. Dirt daubers are great for getting rid of pest insects and especially black widow spiders.
My Toro mower has a threaded opening on the top for your water hose, leave it running right after mowing and thread the hose into it and turn the water on, no lifting it up at all. Really cool way to wash out the thick clumps of grass!
(Oh, and I love your delivery, humor, and simple instructions. Keep it coming! ❤️👩🏼🔧❤️)
Another good one, that fuel filter not getting into the fuel is critical, they'll lose prime, or just won't pull enough fuel to start, what actually happens also is the fuel line shrinks in length over time. I just retired from a shop, we worked on most everything, we sold Shindaiwa back in the day before Echo bought them, the older Shindaiwa T260 was probably the best power to weight ratio trimmer ever sold on this planet. We had contracts with interstate highway cleanup crews here in Texas, they would bring us their trimmers daily, we would repair, they would pickup the next morning. Small engine repair is actually fun, challenging also at times. You do good work, you have a mind for it.
It was a sad day when Echo bought them out and killed off the best range of line trimmers ever built. You've just got to grab good ones whenever they come up for sale now. There must be some truth to what you say, because the 260 is by far the hardest model to find. They very rarely (almost never) appear on the second hand market, at least where I am. 230's come up a fair bit, and the odd 270 now and again though most are in very well used condition by now. People who own them tend to want to keep them.
@@brendanfromnz I have 1 T260 and 3 T230s and I will never get rid of them. I had a T270 and I sold it to a friend and 2 years later it’s still running good and he loves it.
Btw, you did an EXCELLENT job at the repair on my little Echo CS550P chainsaw.
THANK YOU! You don’t hear someone appreciative of work done much these days and I just wanted to shoot you a line that said so. Again, THXU!
In the early part of this video, you talked about having to replace a cylinder head because of a cross threaded spark plug. I personally used to « heli-coil » cylinder heads. Much less expensive than a new head and is far more resistant to future cross threading as the new threads are very hard stainless steel versus soft aluminum. When I started business in 1977, all new Stihl chain saws came with the spark plug holes heli-coiled from the factory. I’ve heli-coiled heads in place by coating the flutes of the tap with grease to reduce the chances of aluminum chips falling into the cylinder, then needle nose pliers to break off the tang of the heli-coil. You don’t want that to fall in the engine. Homelite had a factory not far from my shop, and they also used heli-coils in spark plug threads if they screwed up the threads during production, rather than scrapping the part.
Wow. I had no idea. Thank you for that information.
Don't try to make sense out of what these YT people do. Knowing what you know, in situations where you have no prior experience, think twice before you follow their recommendations.
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My cousin popped out a spark plug on my used Honda CL175 about 35 years ago. I found out the plug was held in place with a helicoil. I'm thinking I should now get that bike running again.
Nice catch Bre on the dirt dauber. They get into everything! 👍🇺🇸🔧
Thank you so much for this guide. Yours was the only one I could find for this machine. By the way this wheeled string trimmer I love it. I'm 71 and can do most of my yard work with it. I have 3 fenced acres.
I pressure wash my zero turn at the end of the year. During the season, I blow it off with my leaf blower. I’ve got the blower out anyway to blow any clippings off the gravel. Here’s a tip: Don’t cut your grass so it blows onto your gravel. Cut grass can grow!
Wish l had a Chickanic in my neighborhood.
Thanks for the useful tips on the carburetors I learned something new today in your video also after you put the new carburetor on it ran nice great job 👍
Love the red vet. Hope hubby is enjoying it with yalls nicer weather.
I always get the after market carbs. I've never had a problem. Great video!
i very much wish we had a reliable honest mechanic in my area of east tn.. thank you for being a good person
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My warmest greetings from Greece!!!!!Thank you for clearing up the carb issue on the husqvarna's...I always believed to be so but the "pros" tried to convince me otherwise!!
Just love your videos,, love the knowledge and the trouble shooting. Keep ‘em coming!!
You love showing off your vet, as you should. I love that model and color. Hey, great information here!!! Keep up the good work 👍🏻
Thanks for doing this video, I was just about to put mine at the road with a sign for anyone to take. I took your advice and did the same thing for my Powermate, and it runs better than it did when it was new. Again a big thank you 🙏.
Absolutely love your videos. Could listen to your explanations all day. Fantastic talker and love the accent.
Keep up the great work.
Ross from the Gold Coast, Qld, Australia
Looks like beautiful weather there.
Glad you are doing well. Keep up the great work.
Once again another great video been a wonderful day here in Texarkana Arkansas it hit 73° today looks like might get some hard rain Monday and Tuesday have a great reast of your weekend
I enjoyed your video on how to repair a tiller. You said you would put a link on where to buy aftermarket carburetors, but I didn't see it anywhere. I plan on watching more of your videos, you are informative and personable thank you
YOU ARE SO GOOD WHEN YOU MAKE YOUR VIDEOS!!!!!!!!!! You must have been at the same school as our band director at UMass. He said, "Learn your craft, and do it well". You are a super example of that. When you do a video, you show it step by step when you take things apart, and then you go through all of the steps when you replace the item! Thank you so much for doing your job so well. Most people do the bare amount. YOU DO A STELLAR JOB BECAUSE YOU DO YOUR JOB THOROUGHLY, AND, YOU MAKE YOUR VIDEOS SO INTERESTING. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BE SO WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello Beautiful, I want to thank you for all your hard work and tips. You have helped me numerous times fix problems. I have a problem now that is killing me!! Scag Turf Tiger with Kohler CH740 that is burning oil without smoke at a rate of half a quarter per 2 hours. Pressure test is 120 both cylinders. Black wet gas smell plugs and no leaks. Runs good cuts good starts good. PLEASE HELP!! On Disability and can't afford trying different things that don't help.
I am a retired mechanic . I work on 18 wheelers from the 80s into the 90s . A car accident prematurely retired me . Yep it sucked but life goes on . I got the C word before it was a popular thing and boy it took it toll on me . I am lucky I am here . Well enough of that stuff . I had a poulan chain saw thaw did not run well new back in 2005 . I used it for a small home job and put it away . Then I came across your videos . They made me start to think . I am still trying to get stronger from the C word . Let's take a look at this thing . It has not ran since 2006 maybe 2007 . I fallowed one of your videos and went over it . It looks like new . Changed the plug and good fresh fuel . It popped off and ran better then ever . This was just yesterday . I would like to say thank you and God Bless you . You videos go a long way .
I tried shaking my 2 cycle tiller to free thr float as you suggested....fired right up. thanks for tip
Excellent video your tips an tricks have saved me time ,money and frustration. Did I mention frustration?
Hi Bre from the UK,
I have really enjoyed watching your videos, even the ones for equipment I don’t have or repair!
I have learnt so many tips etc, and as I’ve been a mechanic for nearly 50 years, but not on small engines. I’m now a retired ,one legged wheelchair jockey, and have moved onto the wonderful world of small engines, and begun to regularly say every-days a school day!
I brought a used Stihl fs90r last season, which started and ran fine. This year (after a tip from Steve’s small engines) I acquired a Kombi hedge trimmer attachment,. This season started to have issues with lack of power, and it stopping and not easily starting. So stripped the valve gear out, changed the worn burnt camshaft, but was unable to obtain the updated cover with the added oil feed bar to the cam! Anyway it starts and appeared to run, tickover fine, but decided to check the compression etc. That was only 60 psi, so looks like valves or a replacement piston rings and barrel (cylinder) which this side of the pond is £75 ouch.
Gonna run with it for now though as it strims just fine.
The thing is, there doesn’t appear to be many videos on these 4 mix engines, which appear to be a marmite product over here. I personally like the easy starting, torque, and sound (also quieter) but although there’s videos on the camshaft, I haven’t found any on the carburettor, (which is a bit different to the normal) or low compression, and engine strip replacement. Maybe a hole you could fill?
Any way stay safe, and keep up with the fun videos!!!
Growing up we always took things to the fix it man. That's all I was taught and knew to do. With your help I now fix my own stuff. So refreshing and satisfying . Thank you for all you do!
I grew up different we always fixed our stuff for we couldn't afford new or someone to fix it.
Great fix Bree, yes aftermarket are good in most carburettors but occasionally you need to redo threads or change things around like you did...
I purchased an aftermarket carb for my echo edger and it worked flawless and was spot on with the adjustment. I also purchased one for my old Toro walk behind and it worked great as well. I guess I got lucky.
Absolutely. $13 for my mantis tiller carb kit. The kit came with everything that I needed. Every part that it came with was needed. Still didn’t run right. But unlike with my old carb, adjusting the screws actually made it idle and run like new. Thanks
NIce fix. I have had pretty good luck with aftermarket carbs, However I did have one fail for a honda water pump last year. Had to change it three times to make it work. Honda wx-10 small water pump. Thanks for great video's.
Just ran into your site.where have you been all my live.its awsome to see chick's working on engines.HELL YEAH.from michigan
It's always so satisfying when a job works right. :) Our switching from Made-in-China parts is going to take quite a while, if it ever really does work. A lot of the manufacturing companies that came back a few years ago are probably gunshy at the latest changes, and the rest that were planning on coming home are probably watching things reallll closely.
I have cheap aftermarket carbs on Husqvarna saw, Snapper leaf vacuum and Echo blower. All from eBay all work with no adjustment. Had to retap one to fit but otherwise they looked identical.
I love your videos... always so informative!
Bre, great video. Very informative.
Sad when "OEM" parts for an aftermarket tool is so crazy expensive. I had a southland 2T auger, same carb. I replaced the diaphragm and it "sort of" fixed the problem, still needed a bit of choke to run well. The owner didn't want to sink any more $$ in it to dig 8 holes. Cheers!
I have been servicing my 2 stroke toys using chinesium carbs gor years . Generally my experience is good. But, I have twice now found the Chinese umbrella carbs for the Honda FG110 run well, bit after one season, the throttle return spring gives out. The throttle Shafts are plastic, and just a little debris from use (and that cheap foam filter) and the shafts bind up.
Stick with the OEM (Walbro) in this case.
In 1976 had a lot of 2 cycles come into our shop class and I got almost every one running by stripping them down of all filters and using a spray bottle of 2 cycle gas oil mix and cranking them to get stuck reeds free ! We did have actual gas back then ! I was a student . The amount of engines to be fixed 4 cycle or two cycle motors that came in that our school complained that it was too much noise and we had to tone it down . 4 cycles that came in at that time just needed a nice cleaning of the magneto and a flush of clean fuel to make them rock !
Great job as always thanks for the video!
Great video, thanks from London England 👍😎🏴
Great advice , Thanks much.
Very helpful thanks
On the odd occasion you might find yourself with a dud copy carby, in those situations I used to soak the original in clean fuel disassembled and would blow out all jets and orifices and take the diaphragm off the new carb which was almost identical to the old one and any seals , treating the new Carby as parts. That pretty much always got me going again … storing your tools for a month or longer makes it worth draining old fuel. Where I live it’s pretty hot over summer (often over 30 deg C ) so for short term storage of two strokes tools I fill the tank and top up with raw petrol before running to replace the evaporated petrol and keep the mix right . Love the show 🙃🙂
That rototiller looks like a pain Sharon tuna be cussing I like your Channel I fix my low engines for 40 years I like the cougar in the background cougars are super cool have a great day your videos keep me inspired I'm just an old retired Street racer
You are so smart.
Another quality surgery. Great job. QUESTION: Best way to (season) store your equip for the carburetors sake?. TIA.
Chick I recently put an aftermarket carb on my neighbors echo string trimmer. It ran for 1 day I shit you not. He came dragging it back and I took the parts out of the aftermarket and rebuilt the OEM carb. Luckily that fixed it. But like you said it was only $20 compared to where OEM would be. But on my own stuff I'll not use China junk parts
Great useful video
That spark plug looks alot the ones I get from ngk and I love them they work really well no gapping required they ignite to piston atdc comp stroke
Another great video thank you Charles from St. Louis
Great video
I didn’t see a tiller? Just Green Pants and nice ankles! Love you Chicky baby! 🐣
The Dirt Dobler has been quite the culprit in the past good point thanks jon
Great job!
I have a 1990 model Toro weed wacker that no one could fix or find a Carb. replacement for. It was a WalBro carb. I went as far as contacting the company and they has nothing available for a replacement. I took a chance and purchase one of these Chinese carbs. Major improvement!
Works great. Some times you just don't know what your getting from China.
great stuff
When it comes to working on the carburetor, the linkages is the part I hate the most !
Nice one, as usual ! Love your work 🙂🚜🐻 Bear Queensland Oztralia
I've delt with Briggs and Straton Carbs. with the Rubber Float Needles that stick. Cheap After Market Carbs. worked well for Me so far.
Great vid!
Great Job Thank You
Great video mam thks
Good video
You can also get those aftermarket carburetors with the adjustable jet valve which is actually awesome for an aftermarket
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Nice Cougar 😊
Good job! 👍✔
Be glad when it's warmer there😀
Hey Bre,
Love seeing you in action and diagnosing all the issues!
But wished you wouldn’t have sped up when you were trying to pull start it.
Can you show that part of the video at normal speed?
Nothing but love ❤️ 🔥💯
I have an older John Deere Rider Mower; A Hydro 185. Carburetor finally died, and dealer wanted 250 dollars for a new carb. Found a Chinese one on Amazon for about 18 dollars. Took the plunge, and it ran perfectly right out of the box with no adjustment needed.
I started doing that with all my small engine stuff ever since ethanol fuel problems, buying 2-3 at a time when I find deals on them for weedeater, poulan, and B&S brands. I would like to get diaphragm kits, but the are almost the price of a carb unit.
Thank you for your time.
I buy non ethanol fuel.
Seems people have no clue. Love your stuff.
Bre, You did it ❤again..... 2 cycle made simple by the Bre master !! Lol Good job, girl !!
Seen your video about getting some inventory soon with the EPA trying to erase any fuel burning motors you might need to study up on working on electric equipment and changing parts
The heck with that tiller, how about that Mercury Cougar??? Awesome car !! Great job, yes sometimes aftermarket carb. is the way to go... Dang dirt dobbers Lol Thanks for sharing my friend. Sorry, haven't been around much. It is just my wife and I at the shop averaging over 100 pieces of equipment a month thru here. Keep up the great videos and tell the hubby we said hello.
I have had good experience from an Amazon carb for my echo equipment. The brand is Huztl.
Would have been good if you demonstrated it powering through some hard dirt.
I ordered an aftermarket carburetor for a blower and it worked fine but showed that the engine was shot so hopefully I will get to fit it onto another compatible machine one day or I can get the diaphragm off it to repair a Walbro carb. Came with extras like a primer bulb and extra line.
Air filter? I thought that was a chocolate brownie!!! :-)
Unfortunately half of the stuff that I see now or Chinese fake Husqvarna‘s or Chinese fake steel so the carburetors you get for those or the Chinese remanufactured wallbro or Zama carbs there cheaper then the carb kits great videos thanks for helping out the public with them
In Canada you can find it sold at Canadian tire under the champion brand.
Hi bre terry from wisconsin good job on the tiller ❤️ when you fix small eng. Say break still having carb problems with the polan chain saw. It only runs about 25 minutes and stops. Over heating I think . It seems to like to vapor look sometimes. Your thoughts
Ii have a earthquake tiller and the fuel lines it only a year old only used it once. I can't find the right the right fuel line the will fit on the Carburetor tubs . I know the pick up lines need to be laying inside the gas tank. But how far does the other line goes in.
Your video on the tiller was great
hi , i had a home lite 25cc trimmer .. after 2 years it would not run .. i replaced the carb [ China] new lines , farm gas no alcohol .., new spark plug, , stated ir on the bench , it ran ok..then went i use it I and would not start.. i got mad . said some bad words and beat it on a steal lamp pole 10x.. never going to get a gas trimmer again.. i have a b/d 20v .. love it
lol thats not an air filter, thats a mud collector. Great stream! Thanks for sharing - So that is the only solution? just buy another one. I wonder is there a way to make the old carby work?
love it when u talk dirty carbs😁
Did good, never smooth for me. TY
In the future, zoom in when showing the throttle cable end so the viewer can understand the orientation of how the barrel-end slips into the cable bracket. Thanks.
You rock
That engine looks all too familiar. Last year I fixed two Earthquake ice augers which had sat for Lord only knows how long with fuel in them. BOTH of them not only needed carbs but lines as well. The supply line in the tank literally broke into a bazillion pieces when I tried to pull up the fuel filter to clean out the tank. Got the new carbs from Amazon (I think they were Hipa) that came with new lines, filters and gaskets pretty cheap. Both of them ran like champs after the repairs. These machines were given to us so we were able to resell the without having to dump a ton of money into the repairs.