FREE MOWERS! Will they run? Briggs and Stratton push mower Turning Shop Trash Into TREASURE!
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My name is Bre. I took two years of small engine repair at the local college. When I left school, I fell into a wonderful job at a local small engine shop where I worked the counter for a couple years. In 2010 my husband and I opened up our own small engine shop in central Arkansas where I am able to work alongside my family and best friends. We see over 2,000 pieces of small engine equipment every year, and answer 1,000's of small engine questions. We specialize in brands such as Briggs and Stratton, Kohler, Echo and Shindaiwa, but work everyday on MANY other brands like Stihl, Husqvarna, Honda, Craftsman, Remington, Red Max, Troy Bilt, Scag, Bad Boy, Hustler, World Lawn, Poulan, Mantis, Etc.. Hopefully, my experience I share, will save you Time, Money and Frustration in the future!
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I am a mechanic at a local Ford dealership and fixing mowers in my spare time is a great way to wind down at the end of the week .. great video 👍👍
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I am a mechanical engineer based in the UK trained by the Army and we ran old equipment but the secret is. Inspect regularly and Keep Well maintained. Making broken equipment run agin is always a win and I think your ethos and videos are fantastic. Well done
These "shop trash to treasure" videos are AWESOME!!! Keep them coming 🙏
Excellent inspection tips. Thank you!
Great tips for keeping equipment running. I hang on to my equipment waaay longer than most people because I would rather tinker and repair than replace! Great content as usual!
I agree, says the guy still mowing with a 1987 John Deere 212. I will say, I'd like to see the 1987 boat head down the road because that got replaced.
Same I mow the lawn with a 1978 lawn boy 2 stroke push mower best mower ive ever owned
i keep them even when they are dead. just for case i need some parts, which i never will..
Me too - I love getting really cheap mower for spare parts
Yeah - I bought a Murray 20" , rear bagger (didnt run) ( bought a used troy built bag for $20 ) for $ 50 at Salvation Army in 2007 still tunnin strong - bought a 1999 Murray 12 hp 30" rider from a neighbor in 2007( didnt run ) for $75 then bought exact model ( runs ) for $75 from a newer nabor in 2020 for spare parts - bought a 1992 Troy Built Chipper Vac , Tecumseh Engine , 4 forward , reverse, nuetral and park tranny at flea market for $200, looked new but neglected , its a workhorse - have to keep it tip top for one pull start because it's a bitch to pull start and I'm gettin old.. love this shit !
My experience has been a mower with out the blade will pull back on you. The blade acts to give the engine enough inertia to spin. I found this out when I put a aluminum flywheel briggs on a out board. I ended up using a 5.5 honda off of a pressure washer which has a cast iron flyweel. It now starts easy.
Your 💯 correct the blade act's as part of the flywheel and they will kill you trying to start them with out a blade . 👌👌
You are correct
Hmmm learned something new😁
Great work there Bre. It is comforting to hear someone else following the same patterns to check a free mower out, and then to get it running again. I've been doing this almost exactly the same way for a while now. Good money as long as the problem isn't too severe. Love the videos.
My neighbor is in the pre owned mower business. He does pretty good for himself. He cruises yard sales, looks at sale sites and sometimes people just give him mowers. If he runs into a problem he'll call me for advice. Now, if I could just sell the two trimmers and self propelled Scott's mower...Nice work Bre.
I picked up a used push mower for $80. A Husqvarna! It's a beast! I needed it for a vacation property. Best $80 I've ever spent.
I wish I would have seen this video 4 months ago, I might have been able to save my Husqvarna mower from the junkyard! I never thought about the flywheel sheer pin. This fairly mechanically inclined old fart really enjoys you sharing your knowledge!
it's pretty clear to see the mulch cover got pinned back against the muffler, and that's what burned the hole in it.
YEs, I wired them up intentionally before to blow the clippings out the side on wet grass. Chuckle!
Some tips from 40 years ago when I worked on these as a kid. We didn't have console games or smartphones back then so we actually did things.
During grass cutting season in LA (lower alabama) I had to work on B&S mowers every day after school as a pre-teen in the early 80s. The male half of the old couple I lived with on my grandaddy's farm did this as a side gig. There was an abandoned mower graveyard just across the street a ways, maybe 50 mowers. So as my side gig I started bringing them over to rebuild them (down to honing the cylinder and lapping valves if needed) and managed to get lots of them working to sell. By far, most were just carb jobs replacing the diaphragm or flywheel key. I didn't just get them running, but total refurb. Definitely pull the head and lower cover and clean the valves. By the time I was 14 I was able to buy my first motorcycle. I noticed today's mowers need much much less maintainence and repair.
Back in the day there was a ratcheting cup with ball bearings with 2 ears. We'd bang those with a 6" bar of lead and hammer. and used the same bar of lead to hammer the top of the crank to pop it off...we never pried a flywheel off as it can warp the crank. 12:20
For setting the coil clearance we used a strip of old paper grocery bag, I suppose a piece of 1000 grit sandpaper would work since they don't make those big brown grocery bags anymore.
Hi buddy ... I was sort of the same but didn't have a clue but i had a Villiers Kart (broken) when i was 14 years old.
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I've always wanted to master and wonder about those Honda engines ???
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And how Hi-Brids or sheer electric cars would benefit from a Honda engine just powering a alternator ???
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They are such a wonderful little engine !!!
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I,m surprised the lady doesnt heat the plug to assist firing ????
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I'm gonna get some old engines and play around
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CHEERS
I like to tinker with mowers. Cables left out get water in then rust welds them on the in side.
Like your teaching vids. Love your "happy dance"! Jealous of your skills!!
The pointers on the flywheel were useful. I have never seen it pulled before.
Hi Jeff how are you doing today. Hope you are having a good weather 😊
I hadn’t realized that used mowers we’re getting good money now. A year ago they were $25 or so. I guess this is a good time to put all mine out front. I just have to dig them all out and clean em! Thanks for the info!’
$125 for a good used push mower is a lot. Good fix.
@@mikespain8655 true tho shes right in a busy town in a good location, im sure thats what brings that top $
Put the nut back on the crank shaft. Take a screwdriver under flywheel put a little pressure on it take a hammer and smack the end of the crank shaft. Flywheel will pop right off. I have never broke one yet.
I have done that several times. Works well and quick.
A free-to-me walk behind John Deere was my first actual foray into small engines after I bought my house. It had sat for a few years, and the previous owner couldn't get it to start from just yanking on the pull cord, so it was offered to me since I didn't have a mower yet. That was the best thing that could have happened, I think. It was an easy fix and a quick learning experience. I had to replace both cables running up the handle, and since I didn't know squat about a carburetor, I ordered a new one -- they were like $20 for a replacement, and my time replacing it. I Added some fresh fuel, followed the instructions on the handle, and she started right up. It hasn't given me any problems since.
The happy dance when it started was epic!!! 🤣🤣
You should be so proud of your yourself. Your tone, demeanor, and work ethic set you apart. Loving the content for sure. Very well done, down to earth, easy to understand and very relatable videos.
When she's good, she is so good at fixing stuff. I love it when she makes things work,
17:45 that's the best right? 😃 Taking something old and renewing it, nice work!
the best part of this was the teaching part it was perfect and i got a lot of information. thank you
Another great video. The old saying One man’s/woman’s junk is another woman’s/ man’s treasure lol
I love your videos. I have a good mechanical background but I small engines are fairly new to me and I've learned so much from you. I maintain a small fleet at a golf course and the education has been invaluable.
Neat! I had an uncle who use to bring home old mowers from auctions and I use to work on them and get many of them working again. A couple were kept for the yard, one was given to me, as I took that as payment for some odd jobs, and the rest were often sold at his garage sales and I would get a percentage. Just fun times working on them, and often finding out that most just suffered from being exposed to the elements and needed lawnmower 101 to get running again.
I've pulled100s of mowers out of the trash, fixed and sold them. It's a descent side hustle.
Love the jig at the end. Success will make that happen. 👌
I was thinking about doing a small side hassle when I retire. Lawnmower, snowblower, trimmer tune up seems like a causal laid back job.
Good video, great feeling when you can fix something you got free 👍😄🎩
Love watching your videos. You've solved a lot of my problems with these small engines. Thanks!
I got my Speed Feed 400 today from the Amazon seller in your link. Happy Belated Father’s Day to me!! Tonight I plan on installing it on my “new” Homelite ST285-BC. Thanks Bre for all the good information and encouragement.
I am a bit older than you, those were $100 mowers in my memory. The clean one probably has a bent crankshaft. Nice flywheel removal. I use the pry on both sides with wife hitting the crankshaft on a piece of wood with a 4 lb. sledge hammer. Not pretty. But works.
first glance at the "clean" one looked an awful lot to me like an oil leak.
@@kenbrown2808 maybe so. I really like these people. Keep watching them.
Totally get this is a repair channel, not a cleaning channel. And a fantastic one too! Just wanted to give you the viewers' perspective; we *_love_* to see a 'transformed' machine, and kinda assume (wrongly) that when the repair's done and the video ends, that's what the customer's gonna get. I guess we've been spoiled by so many TH-cam tool restoration channels! Just a quickie shot of the 'after' would go a long way to helping with this, as I for one long to see just how well a machine cleans up.
I always enjoy your videos I've learned much from you! My photography business tanked from the pandemic so in order to make rent I started repairing and flipping lawn machines in my neighborhood. Now my wife allows me to stay here, LOL. Thanks again for your hard work and sharing your knowledge.
I've gotten 3 or 4 mowers in the last 16 or 17 years for free and all of them I got running and one of them I'm still using and it's over 20 years old and the rest I sold for a good price. The one that I'm using is a toro super recycler with a 6.5 hp Briggs.
This is from my "Power Mechanics" high school class of the 1960s in which we got our hands dirty working on the Briggs & Stratton L-head engines of that era.
Back then, of course, you didn't have lawn mower blade adapters that would fracture in some manner if you hit a hard object while you were mowing, so the engine's flywheel key was your #1 line of defense against engine crankshaft damage in this situation -- and Briggs & Stratton's service instructions were that if you did find your engine's flywheel key even partially sheared or damaged, you should replace it with only a genuine Briggs & Strattion replacement key (which was made of soft metal), and never a regular steel key.
Years later, I was mowing a lawn with a neighbor's lawn mower when I hit a steel stake that had been hidden in the tall grass I was mowing, which caused the mower's engine to stop and not start again. However, remembering what I had been taught in that "Power Mechanics" class from my high school years, my purchase of one flywheel puller for her mower's engine and one genuine Briggs & Stratton replacement flywheel key for it got her mower running again!
Thanks for all you teach us. Got my small tiller running from your tips!!!! Was gonna throw it away!
My favorite old manual push mower with high wheels (bicycle spokes). I wish that I could get one of those.
Love your trash to treasure videos. I get complaints about my back yard. Your videos give me ideas of what to do with the things in my back yard.
I remember when you could get a basic Murray for $99. Those were the days!
MUST have a blade on it to start, that's the flywheel.
More often than not you can start it without knife, but it needs a VERY had yank, or it will kick back, yes.
Need to have the blade mounted to the crankshaft. The weight of the blade helps to finish the stroke.
Physical harm can occur. It is also possible to shear the key.
I have experienced near shoulder dislocation due to no blade on a walk behind.
that throw start kind of makes me cringe, too. I've found over the years, that pulling faster just stresses things more. - and one online mechanic pointed out that with some newer models of recoil, throw starting can blow out the starter.
@@kenbrown2808 Don't get me wrong, I was not criticizing her by no means. She is great at what she does. I have been doing this for over 30 years. She keeps it simple and explains things very well.
I was only advising from experience. Her channel is the best I have found thus far.
@@delseckora5327 I occasionally watch a couple others. and yes, she explains things well, she just has a couple habits that I look at as things she might want to think about. the throw starting of push mowers is one. hitting wrenches with her hand to break a stiff connector loose is another. I actually need to get out of the habit of throw starting my saw. fortunately, there is no throw starting with my mower. it's too heavy to throw.
@@delseckora5327 check out Mustie1 he's great at finding junk and fixing it
@@kenbrown2808 have you seen Mustie1 channel, he's great and this stuff
That dance! 🧑🏻🏫
I keep finding jems in the dumpster. 3 Stihl MS230, one cleaned the carb and ran like new, one needed carb rebuild and fuel lines replaced, third just a new bar and chain.
Echo gas string trimmer, carb rebuild and fuel lines.
Several cheap push mowers same as above and only one smoker with a bad knock, so parts. Kept the saws and one running push mower (plus the parts one) sold the rest. Easy$$$ and enjoying getting them running.
A little tip for fitting the new key (on the B&S engines) once the old one is removed, is lay the flywheel back on the crank and then just push the new key in from the top. Then bolt it down. 👍
The free stuff is always great. I do a lot of fix and flips and make some good money from them
I bought a new walk behind self propelled last year, went to small engine place for fuel line for an outboard I’m restoring. Glanced at mowers, the one I bought was 120.00 more!!!! I did something right for a change buying last year👍
Loved the happy dance!
Started right up and no puff of smoke. Worth 125.00 for sure. I remember they sold for 99.00 at k-mart. the engines were 125.00. separately. I would buy the mower and swap the engine. They all had the same bolt pattern.
Hi Tom how are you doing today. Hope you are having a good weather 😊
Am learning all the time with you thank you 🙏
The scratches/scraping marks can also be caused by the engine brake.
When I worked for a dealer, I would have worked 7 days a week instead of 6, if she would have been at the shop ! You are better looking than a new tool box and we all love your personality !!!
Awesome video thanks for the info! I’m gonna have to come by your shop someday
My pressure washer is an old pressure washer chasis with a harbor freight 212cc predator and a 3,300 psi triplex pump. It's actually a beast. Built it for under 400 bucks
I’ve been watching you and (Taryl Fixes All) he is hilarious but both of y’all are very good at what you do! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
When I was in the service, our dept bought a new snowblower. When I got back to the shop, the boss was trying to get it started. I asked if it had gas, and he never checked. He filled it up and went to start it, when I stopped him again with, did you check the oil? It was shipped dry. He was a good boss, but a lousy mechanic.
Great tips. 👍 Thanks
My dad would go to the local scrap yard and buy 25-30 mowers for the scrap price. He would make 15-20 working mowers out of them then retrun what was left and buy another 25-30. It's what he did in retirement.
Whatever happened to Tecumseh engines?
@@cabman86 Tecumseh closed its engine division in 2008 due to financial issues they still make compressors for refrigerator and air conditioning units. Peerless was sold to Husqvarna. Then Husqvarna sold Peerless sold to certified parts group.
Your awesome. Thanks for the video.
Great video. Keep up the good work. Thank you.
Bre, you're the best! Better than all the rest. Thanks again for saving us Time Money and Frustration.
Nice. I would repair and sell both of them Bre. Keep them working for life. 👍🇬🇧🔧
Happy Dance!!!!!
Good vid for newbies when putting flywheel back on you have to have it clean where attaches to crank or you can shear key trying to start it key is only for timing
Actually, kind of a bad flywheel installation. Torque specs are important for any flywheel installation, either automotive or small engine. The flywheel key in a small engine is meant to shear if the engine is very suddenly stopped in order to keep it from breaking the crankshaft. The torque spec allows that to happen. Tightening with a impact is not the way to go, too loose and you shear keys all the time, too tight the crankshaft breaks.
Great video. I learned a number of new things.
I love watching your videos so informative I love how you explain things
Great vid, thanks! 👍👍
Love the mexican music while you were presssure washing the lawn mower!! Very funny!!!
When resurrecting or repowering an old lawn mower I’m a big fan of Briggs & Stratton I/C engines. (industrial/ commercial) engines.
Built to last.
Unfortunately they are becoming a rare bird.
Old school Tecumsesh engines are my second choice, vintage 1970 ‘s.
Most of the time, if you try to start these cheap push mowers without a blade, it WILL shear that flywheel key immediately! The blade acts as a part of the flywheel system since the flywheels are made out of aluminum and not heavy enough on their own. I have seen MANY of these do just that. I am sure that you know that, but a lot of your viewers may not.
I bought a new mower about a year ago. Now it is very hard to start. I determined the automatic choke wasn’t working, so I now manually choke the mower, and it starts fine.
LOL, I flip mowers every day and when buying\finding them I always look for red mowers, a good looking red mower will sell in 2 days where a gray\black\green one may take a week or 2 to flip.
Was the old key sheared? No blade will cause kickback similar to sheared key.
so happy i found your channel!! love your content
Mmm, the scent of success... Sweet, priceless sensation! =)
A note on the flywheel puller. An old steering wheel puller works much better. They're hard to find anymore. Mine will pull that flywheel off with no problem. You just have to find the right bolts. 🐀🐾
i love your videos very interesting
I was a bit confused. You got the flywheel off, but then talked about the marks on the side and didn't point out if the key was broken or what? You mentioned how to put the key back and I am assuming you put a new key, but you never actually pointed out that it was indeed bad.
That said, I'm a new subscriber and spent the morning working on old mowers I collected alongside the road after watching you and another TH-cam mechanic.
You do a good job in these. Good video for the most part and audio.
Most of these mowers, blowers, weed whackers and various other yard machines, seem like they are very simple, yet seem to be so hard to fix. Hopefully after a few of your videos, I can eliminate half of my barn space being taken up by old equipment. 😆
i been lawn mowing for 14 yr's + one thing i did notice NEVER tilt or lift a lawn mower by the handle's on that angle it will do more DMG etc
love your vlog and thanks for tips as im always tinkering with mowers
Well done, thanks!
It will be a good thing if we actually transition back from a throwaway economy to an economy where we take care of stuff and keep it working. we won't be burning through resources so fast, and repairing creates more good paying jobs than mass production.
Nice job.
Great video
Love your cars, especially the '68 Mercury Cougar.
Nice vettes!!
That’s what we did in college. Turn trash into a unit for sale
Fun stuff great vid
I do things a little different. But don’t matter, yours is the safer way. ( I use hammer and pry bar and wd40 to get the flywheel off. I have never broke one. But I have seen some break because they hit something really hard. And break flywheel. Key and flywheel
Just picked up 8 mowers for free in the past month
Fixes and sold 3 of them already
Yardman - Powermore
Craftsman - b&s
TROYBILT - b&s
TODO
CRAFTSMAN-Honda
Cub cadet - Powermore
Toro - b&s
Snapper -b&s
To strip down
Murray. And keep the b&s engine
Deck is screwed
Mowers like that one around where I am going for about 80-100
Great job thanks for your help
I love u videos keep the good work😊
Those were assembled at the old McCrea Georgia plant closed in 2019
Great video can’t believe you cranked that mower at the back oh hubbys Vet what if it blew up lol
Nice video.. I haven’t really had to pull so hard on these new mowers. Got do what you have to get them started.
DLCR El Paso, Tx
@Daniel Dominguez The engine needs the blade on it, the added weight helps the flywheel. It's starts much easier then.
@Chickanic
A big thank you for reminding how to overhaul a mower. Besides repairing a generator carb, I'm about to begin, I was recently given 2 lawnmowers. A Murray B&S like this one in your video, and a Honda. I think I'll approach my Murray 1st, then I'll take on the Honda.
Is it possible a 2018 year Honda uses a B&S motor as well?
Here's my real question: For these similar mowers, are most of the carb jet kits about the same? Or are they each a little different enough that I'd better order parts before I take them apart?
9:47 No blade on it? That will yank your shoulder out of socket.
I sheared the key off mine a couple times, still runs 20 years later.
I always thought you had to have a blade on, for added momentum to start them.
And without the blade the key can and will oftentimes shear.
@@rebeltaz123 That's good to know. Thanks!
When I first learned to work on mowers in the 1970's, we were taught not to start a mower without a blade. I am now in my retirement (in my 70s) and starting to tiniker with mowers again. My question is, are they designed now with a counter balanced shaft that doesn't require a blade to run properly? I ask this since you started yours without a blade. If that's the case, when did it change?
Feeling rhat heat here in kansas too. You know were in bad times when murrays are getting fixed and not recycled. Lol.