I have been wanting to start gold plating customers float bowls for a long time. There;s an idea 4 you Dactyl, gold plating float bowls. Woulld solve a lot of problems depending on quality of plating.
My favorite TarylDactyl quote: "Its not the Space Shuttle...Its a Lawn Mower!!" Epic. That L-head I/C engine series from Breaks & Scrap'em is one of the best models they ever made, IMHO.
This is why this channel is here for Educational purposes to learn. Taryl has made a living doing this for years very resourceful and knowledgeable small engine mechanic. Grass rats fever
The plating does do something Tarryl , it makes the float bowl look nice . I always mow my grass with the float bowl off so that my neighbours can admire the shine on it . It makes them smile with pleasure.
I was told by a friend who works for a LARGE maker of small engines, that the plating is only there for the time that the engines are in storage and transport before sales.
Taryl, you got a great deal on that trail mower and you did good getting it running. I build a trail mower from a Craftsman rider mower and parts from my boneyard. I pull it behind my compact tractor and can mower 116 inches. It works great and saves me time mowing the open areas. Thank you for doing this channel, Taryl.
Great video! Never lets us down. Btw I am an MST Briggs tech and here's more on the code date of all Briggs motors: fist two digits are the year of manufacture, the third and fourth digits are the month of manufacture, and of course the fifth and sixth digits are the day of the month of manufacture. The following digits designate the plant and assembly line. This code dating was established in 1965 by Briggs.
Everything that Terrell works on runs when he gets done with it. I like that he shows people how to fix things without spending tons of money and buying unnecessary parts. These videos are informative to DIYers. I don’t know any DIYers that have the means to replate a float bowl. So even if he did replay the float bowl it wouldn’t be useful to any of us. Besides like he said that’s nonsense.
It is a fun channel to watch once in a while, but do you really think they would show a video if something got really botched up during filming? If you have a "rare" float bowl, maybe you can use Red-Kote on the inside. I tried it once (old Wisconsin), and it seems to be working OK.
Would've liked to see you use it with the offset pin installed so you could mow with both your rider and the tow mower. for those who don't know, they make the mower track to the left or right side of your rider so you can cut a huge swath in a single pass. If seen them ganged in ridiculous configurations, but one to the left and one to the right, plus the rider would get big areas cut quick, fast, and in a hurry. Very cool! Keep the great work!
Yes, great for big areas with a regular tractor or mower. I always wondered how one of those would work with my waggly-ass ZTR mower, and now I know it's not the best way to pull it.
After being an electronics technician for 20+ years, I taught myself small engine mechanics and have been running my own shop for 10+ years. I enjoy watching your videos. Not only do I occasionally learn a little something something, but seeing you do some of the same little tricks that I do just validates that I do actually know what I'm doing! lol
I once sandblasted a float bowl , and then my mower fell into pieces right before my eyes , I scooped up the pieces in a few buckets and brought them to Lowes where I bought it and they said since I sandblasted the float bowl I deserved to have my mower collapse into a heap of pieces and parts and they shunned me from the store forever..
The employees at Lowes are not professional small engine mechanics. You voided the warranty by taking the engine apart in the first place. You put it back together incorrectly or forgot to put oil in the engine. YOU screwed that engine, not your sandblasting, unless the engine ingested sandblasting media 🤔. You doop.
It sounds like I will have to start a case file and investigate whether or not the person who called you a "Hack" is the same person who left the rubber cap on the B&S fuel pump.....LOL Great work Brother!
That pull behind would be neat for when you had mower-deck parts issues or expense but needed to cut a lot of grass anyway. If one guy had it, he could let the other guy use it while his machine was getting fixed. Then the grass doesn't get outta hand and get too tall, which gets wrapped up in mechanisms of even the toughest machines and breaks things if you keep trying and don't stop and cut that tall grass out that's clogged around rotating shafts etc. A rental place could offer that tow behind.
I been working on small engines and motorcycles for many years,did my first engine at eight years old,iv don all kinds of things to these engines and never had a problem,Teryl is one of the best iv seen in this business,good job Teral
Mr. Dactyl, thank you for the informative and practical DYI repair of the pull behind. In your video you mention disparaging comments directed to your application of treating an aluminum carb float bowl with sandblasting. Basic bombarding a surface with high velocity media to scour away debris and detritus. Your retorts are correct in the fact that this method does little in the way of removing any "protective" coating applied by the manufacturer, it is true that companies apply a thin film of clear coating to aluminum surfaces; but this is purely cosmetic. It is used to delay the oxidation while the product is in transit or on the showroom floor. Aluminum in its raw form is the second most abundant metal in the Earth. It is also relatively simple to mine and refine. Aluminum corrodes in several ways They can be atmospheric, Intergranular, exfoliating, and Galvanic. This is the type that I believe has affected your carb. As you noted, the float bowl was "rusted" aluminum is non-ferrous but can be contaminated by ferrous metals in its system. The emulsion tube showed discoloration and was pitted, and you could not remove it. This is classic galvanic corrosion. Dissimilar metals (brass) can create an electrolytic reaction when in proximity to each other, causing the aluminum to act as an anode which accelerates the corrosion. I believe this will be clear to all of those who call you a hack, and they will heap formal apologies upon you. Mustie1 are you listening?
There are 2 factors which were not discussed on the video. First: fuel bowls can be steel, aluminum, pot metal, brass or any other material which will hold gas. Second: The gas which contains ethanol entrains water. If the ethanol gas sits for a while the water drops out of solution. If you have a steel bowl it may rust. An aluminum bowl will corrode if the oxide skin is disturbed. A brass bowl might not be hurt by the water but acid will eat it away, Your observation of the B&S fuel pickup tube splitting has helped me on several rebuilds. I think the split is caused by metal fatigue from vibration. These kinds of tips can only come from someone with a great depth of understanding the ailments of small engines. Thank you. May I call you Dr. Taryl?
Make sure the brake and carb spray is fully chlorinated. It’s the one that melts your pansie love gloves . Hold your cigar in the other hand, close cover before striking...
You and the boys have been doing this how many years?? I think you may know a little about mower do's and don'ts. Keep up the great work Taryl, we love you!! 👍🏼
It's always sweet to watch you recover and prevail when things don't go as expected. Shows the superb skills you possess and perfect application of same. You are inspired. And you pass on that inspiration. Thank you! We learn a lot and and are entertained. What a blessing.
I love your "not the space shuttle" comment. I work in apartment construction and constantly deal with architects that want to supply the minimum required dimensions at exactly the minimum required dimensions- with no margin for error. I have actually said "this is not the %#%$#^% space shuttle, it's not being built by NASA engineers, and wood is a natural product that varies in size." You make my Sundays, thanks.
It always amazes me that TH-camrs will spend so much time addressing the complaints of so few people! You have over 200,000 subs and you constantly respond to the 3 people who always complain!
I love the comments about the float bowl. Great way to call out the complainers! If the complainers know so much, why are they watching Taryls videos? To complain or learn something new? I learn something from every Taryl video that I watch. Keep making the awesome videos!
A few years ago I got a Roof 28 inch mower with a Briggs 8 horse4 I/C engine that had been sitting for at LEAST 12 years if not longer the owner said. The float bowl bottom was GONE with rust. It was under a shed with plenty of room to stay dry and was used at a tree farm. I got a new bowl and just blew out the center tube with laquer thinner and air. Runs like Swiss watch and cuts like a carpet. Gator blade of course.
I repowerd an old Haben a couple years ago and rebuilt the deck. I made the mower controls on the dash of the tractor. Works pretty darn good. My 54" cut tractor now cuts a 118" path. Field done in minutes.
Taryl you have been working on mowers a long time and them you are doing a good job like watching you you will run into people that think they know everything and half of them are probably engineers that don’t have any common sense I made car parts for a living and I had the same problem I just egnored
I love your channel. I just got an x320 with a blown comeandsuckme engine. I swapped in a 25hp breaks and scrapem, and then it needed that crappy control module for 125 bucks. Runs good now. A new seat later and ive got an 8 year old 750 dollar x320.
He shows everything and has many options as to a problem. Loved the one that stumped him. The last resort was the piston rings. Bingo fixed on the "Brake and scrap em"
Taryl is probably one of the only YT'ers who can post a video and I will stop what I'm doing and try to watch it ASAP, partly because of the engines, mostly because of Taryl. Talking heat gun had me rolling.
Always informative and entertaining. An old bush mechanics bodge for things like the oil dipstick grommet is to clean it off and coat with some mushy consistency yellow laundry soap, oil and gas will not dissolve soap so also works for patching holes in gas tanks [and carb float bowls LOL].
Nice fix job - I just replaced a tractor carb and it came iwth an inline shutoff valve and all the clamps. I shut it off while the engine cools down and the fuel is removed from the bowl each time. The only way I figure to prevent ethanol buildup.
It is consistently good quality work. The details of what Taryl is explaining at any moment is clearly seen by the attentive camera work. This goes unappreciated by most people who focus on the star of the show.
When you pulled that drill bit out of the float pin mounts, aluminum fragments dropped inside the top of the carb. So when you mounted carb back on the mower those shards dropped into the bowl. Unlikely for them to get all the way up into the engine but could block the jet or emulsion tube. Keep blasting the bowls!
when you first pulled the air cleaner cover off, I thought that clump of dirt was a dead mouse! It cracks me up the way you make fun of dumb comments. Stuff like that is probably the main reason I watch this channel!
Ok, so it isnt a space shuttle launch. It's still interesting and educational to see someone with skill and knowledge bring useful equipment back to life. I always learn something new on this channel. Respect.
I've had good luck with muriatic acid on corroded carburetors, especially when the jets have already been stripped. Have a nasal spray bottle full. Makes a nice little stream that shoots right through the jets. Eats through the white crust faster than the red rust. I spray it on, wait 5 seconds then rinse it under water.
I briefly had a new Swisher 44” pull type mower like that in the late 90’s. The spindles stuck down below the blades 1.5” and dug into the dirt when I mowed over a hump. It didn’t cut well. I returned it to Fleet Farm and I got a refund. In 2016 I bought two used finish cut Swisher 60” pull type mowers. One running and the other one needing work. I tried the running one on two big lawns. The cut was poor and you might as well not use it in parts of the lawn with trees to go around. I sold both of them too. From what I observed the decks on both the 44” and 60” are too shallow and if you don’t or can’t mow the lawn every 7 days you might as well not hookup the Swisher. Just an honest review based on my experiences.
@@COlson-rh3dg Yeah it’s the Swisher “that’s good enough” quality standards. In the 90’s I was planning on starting my own manufacturing business making pull type mowers but a battle with Lyme disease has prevented that.
If it mows like the rear discharge deck I have on my old Wheelhorse tractor, unless you mow every other day, it leaves a lot of grass laying on the yard.
I once sandblasted a carb bowl, and the space time continuum did not fold up or anything...but I did hear the falsetto voices in my head. telling me I was doing it wrong. lol! I've learned to ignore them...
Hello there Taryl, nice score. I've sanded hundreds of those float bowls and never had any problems, keep on with the repairs my friend and keep doing the terrific videos
Best solution (if you Really cared about the machine and wanted to avoid any future problems... obviously something nicer than this particular Swisher) would be to buy a new float bowl, and then paint the Outside. Zinc is galvanic... it sacrifices itself so the steel doesn't rust. But it also easily wears off. So painting over the fresh coating on the new bowl preserves the corrosion protection of the steel itself. Of course, it IS only a mower... but if you have a brand new part in your hand, why not do that last step which is too expensive for Briggs etc to do at the factory. Just make sure you spray it with bowl nut in place so you don't get paint under that surface. If it's an Old steel bowl that you cannot replace, you could spray the outside with "Cold-Gal", which is a spray-on zinc primer (after sanding it all clean of course). Just a suggestion if you had, say a real restoration project 😉
Good video, start to the point , no messing about , very useful to the man who likes to learn and pick things involved with mowers. Well done from the UK.👍🏻
I was always told PhD means post hole digger. I "earned" mine before going to college. Growing up around agriculture might be the key, but working for a fence company might be another.
All the coating does is prevent rust if the bowl is empty for a long time like you said the fact that the bowl is rusted the plating was already gone off it
I have packed in intake and exhaust with shop rags taped up crankshaft ends plug crank case vent. Sandblast block to paint. Car engines also look great. Make sure you get no sand in engine
Dear Taryl, thank you for sand blasting those float bowls. Maybe they should have had you working on the space shuttle. Great video, gonna order some of those new stickers, they are hysterical.
I got to tell you something Tyrell I have learned a lot of things from you and have started doing repairs on mowers and carburetors and stuff and by golly they run I love it your channel is great
I have stripped the slotted head on the emulsion tube for a Honda carb before also, It sucks. Got lucky though, luckily the emulsion tube wasn't full of crap and I got engine running without have to pull it by drilling it out, tapping and replacing tube.
It needs a pin on the deck to keep the drawbar isolated so it doesn’t wag around behind you. The deck has different drawbar angle settings so it can be pulled offset from the mower. The drawbar also needs to be raised up at the tractor so the deck sits level. Swisher has accessories available.
As a kid we has a swisher 3 wheel riding law mower, had a Tecumseh POS engine, pulled with front wheel and as long as ground was hard and thar POS Tecumseh ran it was a cutting devil . That was around early 70's
Taryl, I had a generator with hard gas lines, had a shop work on it, and when we got it back, we sat it on the shop floor, and the fuel line pulled off the carburetor and gas ran all over the floor. I don't know how they missed that, but I found another shop after that.
I love Taryl’s comments about sand blasting the float bowl. Like he said, if that plating was so good, why did it rust anyway!
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I have been wanting to start gold plating customers float bowls for a long time. There;s an idea 4 you Dactyl, gold plating float bowls. Woulld solve a lot of problems depending on quality of plating.
I liked him saying to blast the coating off a new bowl just because he didn't like it in there. Hilarious 😆
My favorite TarylDactyl quote: "Its not the Space Shuttle...Its a Lawn Mower!!" Epic. That L-head I/C engine series from Breaks & Scrap'em is one of the best models they ever made, IMHO.
I appreciate your 40+ years of knowledge that you share. Everyone is a genius behind a keyboard.
yes! keyboard warriors!
This is why this channel is here for Educational purposes to learn. Taryl has made a living doing this for years very resourceful and knowledgeable small engine mechanic. Grass rats fever
The plating does do something Tarryl , it makes the float bowl look nice . I always mow my grass with the float bowl off so that my neighbours can admire the shine on it . It makes them smile with pleasure.
The coating in the bowl is important when the mower passes the outer stratosphere. Here at NASA, we coat all the carb bowls.
Actually machine wouldn't survive Max-Q without plating!
Not Another Stupid Asstrosnot. 😆
Let’s g-test it in Dubai. Tallest buildings, softest sand. Mars approved from a Moon shot😆😏
NASA almost made NASCAR. Can’t go left and counter clockwise...stay on the right, straight and narrow. 😏
Don’t coat the carb on the Pyrex carb-a-traitor on the the long bong. Just deep toot.
Taryl, don"t ever stop teaching with all your in-depth videos!Your so good at explaining everything!
I was told by a friend who works for a LARGE maker of small engines, that the plating is only there for the time that the engines are in storage and transport before sales.
It’s just zinc. Easier than painting it, and cheaper.
Taryl, you got a great deal on that trail mower and you did good getting it running. I build a trail mower from a Craftsman rider mower and parts from my boneyard. I pull it behind my compact tractor and can mower 116 inches. It works great and saves me time mowing the open areas. Thank you for doing this channel, Taryl.
Great video! Never lets us down. Btw I am an MST Briggs tech and here's more on the code date of all Briggs motors: fist two digits are the year of manufacture, the third and fourth digits are the month of manufacture, and of course the fifth and sixth digits are the day of the month of manufacture. The following digits designate the plant and assembly line. This code dating was established in 1965 by Briggs.
Everything that Terrell works on runs when he gets done with it. I like that he shows people how to fix things without spending tons of money and buying unnecessary parts. These videos are informative to DIYers. I don’t know any DIYers that have the means to replate a float bowl. So even if he did replay the float bowl it wouldn’t be useful to any of us. Besides like he said that’s nonsense.
It is a fun channel to watch once in a while, but do you really think they would show a video if something got really botched up during filming? If you have a "rare" float bowl, maybe you can use Red-Kote on the inside. I tried it once (old Wisconsin), and it seems to be working OK.
Would've liked to see you use it with the offset pin installed so you could mow with both your rider and the tow mower. for those who don't know, they make the mower track to the left or right side of your rider so you can cut a huge swath in a single pass. If seen them ganged in ridiculous configurations, but one to the left and one to the right, plus the rider would get big areas cut quick, fast, and in a hurry. Very cool! Keep the great work!
Yea,you need more than a craftsman 42 in mower tractor for that thing
@@jeffclark2725 Agree, unless it's really flat and smooth. Even so, it's not doing that little transmission any favors.
@@mikemorgan5015 I have a 66 in swisher and it's towed behind a compact tractor, great trail cutter, been sitting on it for years
@@jeffclark2725 Those compact tractors make me want to move to a bigger property, just so I can get one. Haha!
Yes, great for big areas with a regular tractor or mower. I always wondered how one of those would work with my waggly-ass ZTR mower, and now I know it's not the best way to pull it.
After being an electronics technician for 20+ years, I taught myself small engine mechanics and have been running my own shop for 10+ years. I enjoy watching your videos. Not only do I occasionally learn a little something something, but seeing you do some of the same little tricks that I do just validates that I do actually know what I'm doing! lol
It's ok to admit when someone teaches you something.
I once sandblasted a float bowl , and then my mower fell into pieces right before my eyes , I scooped up the pieces in a few buckets and brought them to Lowes where I bought it and they said since I sandblasted the float bowl I deserved to have my mower collapse into a heap of pieces and parts and they shunned me from the store forever..
The employees at Lowes are not professional small engine mechanics. You voided the warranty by taking the engine apart in the first place. You put it back together incorrectly or forgot to put oil in the engine. YOU screwed that engine, not your sandblasting, unless the engine ingested sandblasting media 🤔. You doop.
haha, your joke was hilarious but it’s even funnier since this guy ☝️ didn’t get it.
My sarcasm must be so great that people think I'm serious
You don't talk about things unrelated to the issue and make sure everything goes back to where it came from, your a amateur
Lol
I have found no-one better on the interscreen for telling how to fix and why. Love your videos and the good info provided. Thank you Taryl.
My favorite parts of Taryl's videos is the response rants he gives the haters and naysayers! By far my favorite small engine channel!
It sounds like I will have to start a case file and investigate whether or not the person who called you a "Hack" is the same person who left the rubber cap on the B&S fuel pump.....LOL Great work Brother!
Probably lol
I've done that before. Didn't help any i was still a little loopy after having a few crowns put in and wanted to get my mower running again
Good one
That pull behind would be neat for when you had mower-deck parts issues or expense but needed to cut a lot of grass anyway.
If one guy had it, he could let the other guy use it while his machine was getting fixed.
Then the grass doesn't get outta hand and get too tall, which gets wrapped up in mechanisms of even the toughest machines and breaks things if you keep trying and don't stop and cut that tall grass out that's clogged around rotating shafts etc.
A rental place could offer that tow behind.
I been working on small engines and motorcycles for many years,did my first engine at eight years old,iv don all kinds of things to these engines and never had a problem,Teryl is one of the best iv seen in this business,good job Teral
Mr. Dactyl, thank you for the informative and practical DYI repair of the pull behind. In your video you mention disparaging comments directed to your application of treating an aluminum carb float bowl with sandblasting. Basic bombarding a surface with high velocity media to scour away debris and detritus. Your retorts are correct in the fact that this method does little in the way of removing any "protective" coating applied by the manufacturer, it is true that companies apply a thin film of clear coating to aluminum surfaces; but this is purely cosmetic. It is used to delay the oxidation while the product is in transit or on the showroom floor. Aluminum in its raw form is the second most abundant metal in the Earth. It is also relatively simple to mine and refine. Aluminum corrodes in several ways They can be atmospheric, Intergranular, exfoliating, and Galvanic. This is the type that I believe has affected your carb. As you noted, the float bowl was "rusted" aluminum is non-ferrous but can be contaminated by ferrous metals in its system. The emulsion tube showed discoloration and was pitted, and you could not remove it. This is classic galvanic corrosion. Dissimilar metals (brass) can create an electrolytic reaction when in proximity to each other, causing the aluminum to act as an anode which accelerates the corrosion. I believe this will be clear to all of those who call you a hack, and they will heap formal apologies upon you. Mustie1 are you listening?
Nice Sunday evening 'chuckle time' with the man himself and we learned some stuff as a bonus. Thanks Taryl.
No matter how crappy my day 3 minutes of a Tyrell fixes All video puts a smile back on my face
There are 2 factors which were not discussed on the video. First: fuel bowls can be steel, aluminum, pot metal, brass or any other material which will hold gas.
Second: The gas which contains ethanol entrains water. If the ethanol gas sits for a while the water drops out of solution. If you have a steel bowl it may rust. An aluminum bowl will corrode if the oxide skin is disturbed. A brass bowl might not be hurt by the water but acid will eat it away,
Your observation of the B&S fuel pickup tube splitting has helped me on several rebuilds. I think the split is caused by metal fatigue from vibration. These kinds of tips can only come from someone with a great depth of understanding the ailments of small engines. Thank you.
May I call you Dr. Taryl?
Make sure the brake and carb spray is fully chlorinated. It’s the one that melts your pansie love gloves . Hold your cigar in the other hand, close cover before striking...
I had one of these Swisher pull behinds....dearly loved that thing for my pasture...
Taryl is the Mister Roger’s of lawn mower repair! The talking heat gun got me good! Damn near pissed myself laughing!
Jeff Dunham has some competition
He's hilarious 😂
@@wiisad ? I thought everybody has a talking heat gun ?
What? Your tools don't talk to you? I have a hammer with googly eyes! I though we all did that? No? Oh well, at least I'm in good company :)
Would love to see Taryl do his take on Mr. Rogers!
Wow, new versions of that Swisher are over $2,000. Pretty good deal! 👍👍
You the man Taryl, you the man!
Post your phone number
Thank u
You and the boys have been doing this how many years??
I think you may know a little about mower do's and don'ts.
Keep up the great work Taryl, we love you!! 👍🏼
It's always sweet to watch you recover and prevail when things don't go as expected. Shows the superb skills you possess and perfect application of same. You are inspired. And you pass on that inspiration.
Thank you! We learn a lot and and are entertained. What a blessing.
You are so clever and resourceful! I like the seat extractor you made.
Sandblasting the float bowl? Oh the humanity!!!
Good to see you and nothing beats FREE!!
If they pay you to haul something away I'd say that beats free.
@@1pcfred got that right!!
I love your "not the space shuttle" comment. I work in apartment construction and constantly deal with architects that want to supply the minimum required dimensions at exactly the minimum required dimensions- with no margin for error. I have actually said "this is not the %#%$#^% space shuttle, it's not being built by NASA engineers, and wood is a natural product that varies in size." You make my Sundays, thanks.
Taryl your the beatles of small engine repair thanks for teaching us. Keep um coming
It always amazes me that TH-camrs will spend so much time addressing the complaints of so few people! You have over 200,000 subs and you constantly respond to the 3 people who always complain!
I love the comments about the float bowl. Great way to call out the complainers! If the complainers know so much, why are they watching Taryls videos? To complain or learn something new? I learn something from every Taryl video that I watch. Keep making the awesome videos!
I love how you call out the people who are negative about your work.
A few years ago I got a Roof 28 inch mower with a Briggs 8 horse4 I/C engine that had been sitting for at LEAST 12 years if not longer the owner said. The float bowl bottom was GONE with rust. It was under a shed with plenty of room to stay dry and was used at a tree farm. I got a new bowl and just blew out the center tube with laquer thinner and air. Runs like Swiss watch and cuts like a carpet. Gator blade of course.
I repowerd an old Haben a couple years ago and rebuilt the deck. I made the mower controls on the dash of the tractor. Works pretty darn good. My 54" cut tractor now cuts a 118" path. Field done in minutes.
Best Chanel on the old TH-cams!!!
You're a true professional. Thanks for the videos.
Good video Taryl. Those calling you a hack are just jealous that they didn't think of it. Wouldn't give their comments a second thought
Taryl you have been working on mowers a long time and them you are doing a good job like watching you you will run into people that think they know everything and half of them are probably engineers that don’t have any common sense I made car parts for a living and I had the same problem I just egnored
I love your channel. I just got an x320 with a blown comeandsuckme engine. I swapped in a 25hp breaks and scrapem, and then it needed that crappy control module for 125 bucks. Runs good now. A new seat later and ive got an 8 year old 750 dollar x320.
Taryl has amazing skill at his Profession !
YOU ARE THE BEST! KEEP DOING WHAT YOU ARE DOING!LOVE YOUR SHOW !
From start to finish, this episode is fricken hilarious!!!!! Thanks, Taryl !!!! We love you too!!
I'm waiting for the bowl blaster video game, skit series and merch! Dinner served...... In a bowl.
He shows everything and has many options as to a problem. Loved the one that stumped him. The last resort was the piston rings. Bingo fixed on the "Brake and scrap em"
Your extending the life of the Float bowl, ive scotch pad scrubbed them also
Why I watch Taryals video. Hes entertaining to watch and you also get all his knowledge
Taryl is probably one of the only YT'ers who can post a video and I will stop what I'm doing and try to watch it ASAP, partly because of the engines, mostly because of Taryl. Talking heat gun had me rolling.
Always informative and entertaining. An old bush mechanics bodge for things like the oil dipstick grommet is to clean it off and coat with some mushy consistency yellow laundry soap, oil and gas will not dissolve soap so also works for patching holes in gas tanks [and carb float bowls LOL].
Nice fix job - I just replaced a tractor carb and it came iwth an inline shutoff valve and all the clamps. I shut it off while the engine cools down and the fuel is removed from the bowl each time. The only way I figure to prevent ethanol buildup.
I am always impressed with your production quality. Love whatever camera you are using in the video. Keep up the great work!
Yes, the camera work by the silent camera guy is 50% of the brilliance of this channel.
You mean the constant searching by the autofocus?
I'm thinking his sons have a lot to do with the camera work, and the editing, which must take hours and hours.
It is consistently good quality work. The details of what Taryl is explaining at any moment is clearly seen by the attentive camera work. This goes unappreciated by most people who focus on the star of the show.
When you pulled that drill bit out of the float pin mounts, aluminum fragments dropped inside the top of the carb. So when you mounted carb back on the mower those shards dropped into the bowl. Unlikely for them to get all the way up into the engine but could block the jet or emulsion tube. Keep blasting the bowls!
Taryl is the best! Truly a gem that we all need. Well done!
when you first pulled the air cleaner cover off, I thought that clump of dirt was a dead mouse! It cracks me up the way you make fun of dumb comments. Stuff like that is probably the main reason I watch this channel!
Taral you're not a hake man. You one of the best mechanics I've ever seen thank you for your videos And the Z Bender i got..🤙👍👍
Like your self I have been cleaning the rusty float bowls out with sand paper , etc for years and never had any problems. 👍🏻 From UK.
I love when customers tell me that their lawnmower worked a few weeks ago and the carburetor looked just like these one.
I don't know why they feel the need to lie. I mean, if you think we're that stupid, do you really want to trust us with your crap?
I find using PB Blaster helps removing that better than Wd-40.
PB blaster is King for breaking rusted things loose. Even seized Pistons! Stuff is Awesome and Cheap!
JB-80 is better than both.
And to me wd- 40 is useless, that should piss off the miracle in a can fans that would just spray the bowl lol.
Ok, so it isnt a space shuttle launch. It's still interesting and educational to see someone with skill and knowledge bring useful equipment back to life. I always learn something new on this channel. Respect.
I've had good luck with muriatic acid on corroded carburetors, especially when the jets have already been stripped. Have a nasal spray bottle full. Makes a nice little stream that shoots right through the jets. Eats through the white crust faster than the red rust. I spray it on, wait 5 seconds then rinse it under water.
Alumin-I-um...love it. Cheers from Sunny Australia!
I briefly had a new Swisher 44” pull type mower like that in the late 90’s. The spindles stuck down below the blades 1.5” and dug into the dirt when I mowed over a hump. It didn’t cut well. I returned it to Fleet Farm and I got a refund.
In 2016 I bought two used finish cut Swisher 60” pull type mowers. One running and the other one needing work. I tried the running one on two big lawns. The cut was poor and you might as well not use it in parts of the lawn with trees to go around. I sold both of them too. From what I observed the decks on both the 44” and 60” are too shallow and if you don’t or can’t mow the lawn every 7 days you might as well not hookup the Swisher.
Just an honest review based on my experiences.
I have a zero turn swisher. Every year I get to practice my welding skills on the frame.
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Yeah it’s the Swisher “that’s good enough” quality standards. In the 90’s I was planning on starting my own manufacturing business making pull type mowers but a battle with Lyme disease has prevented that.
If it mows like the rear discharge deck I have on my old Wheelhorse tractor, unless you mow every other day, it leaves a lot of grass laying on the yard.
I once sandblasted a carb bowl, and the space time continuum did not fold up or anything...but I did hear the falsetto voices in my head. telling me I was doing it wrong. lol! I've learned to ignore them...
I have learned more about small engines from Taryl Dactl than anyone.
Thanks a ton 👍
Hello there Taryl, nice score. I've sanded hundreds of those float bowls and never had any problems, keep on with the repairs my friend and keep doing the terrific videos
We love you too, Taryl!
Hats off as usual
Best solution (if you Really cared about the machine and wanted to avoid any future problems... obviously something nicer than this particular Swisher) would be to buy a new float bowl, and then paint the Outside. Zinc is galvanic... it sacrifices itself so the steel doesn't rust. But it also easily wears off. So painting over the fresh coating on the new bowl preserves the corrosion protection of the steel itself. Of course, it IS only a mower... but if you have a brand new part in your hand, why not do that last step which is too expensive for Briggs etc to do at the factory. Just make sure you spray it with bowl nut in place so you don't get paint under that surface. If it's an Old steel bowl that you cannot replace, you could spray the outside with "Cold-Gal", which is a spray-on zinc primer (after sanding it all clean of course). Just a suggestion if you had, say a real restoration project 😉
Just gotta love Taryl.🇬🇧👍🔧
Good video, start to the point , no messing about , very useful to the man who likes to learn and pick things involved with mowers. Well done from the UK.👍🏻
Good plating and Tary l youre not a hack youre an awesome mechanic.
It must be those PHD grassrats that are calling you a hack for sandblasting protective coating LOL
I was always told PhD means post hole digger. I "earned" mine before going to college. Growing up around agriculture might be the key, but working for a fence company might be another.
@@Farm_fab Or -Piled Higher & Deeper ... I always took that to mean BS
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Phoney Doctor
All the coating does is prevent rust if the bowl is empty for a long time like you said the fact that the bowl is rusted the plating was already gone off it
Knipex pliers are prolly the best around love their side cutters
I have packed in intake and exhaust with shop rags taped up crankshaft ends plug crank case vent. Sandblast block to paint. Car engines also look great. Make sure you get no sand in engine
You are a genius that's why I Watch you to learn stuff.🇺🇲🇺🇲👍👍
You can see his own surprise whne he said he got it for free. Blessing the internet with these vids!
Dear Taryl, thank you for sand blasting those float bowls. Maybe they should have had you working on the space shuttle. Great video, gonna order some of those new stickers, they are hysterical.
love your humor on the grass rats on how they always know better than the mechanic.
Not a bad free mower very little had to be fix thanks for the video
Thank you I never knew how to decode codes to figure out what year a motor was made you actually taught me something
I got to tell you something Tyrell I have learned a lot of things from you and have started doing repairs on mowers and carburetors and stuff and by golly they run I love it your channel is great
I have stripped the slotted head on the emulsion tube for a Honda carb before also, It sucks. Got lucky though, luckily the emulsion tube wasn't full of crap and I got engine running without have to pull it by drilling it out, tapping and replacing tube.
We need a Taryl fixes all blooper reel!
Thanks for the video, always enjoy watching!
I'll give ya the thumbs up just because you destroyed those sand-blasting haters. Greatly enjoyed that bit.
It needs a pin on the deck to keep the drawbar isolated so it doesn’t wag around behind you. The deck has different drawbar angle settings so it can be pulled offset from the mower. The drawbar also needs to be raised up at the tractor so the deck sits level. Swisher has accessories available.
awesome trick with the seat.
Pull it with the ride king
As a kid we has a swisher 3 wheel riding law mower, had a Tecumseh POS engine, pulled with front wheel and as long as ground was hard and thar POS Tecumseh ran it was a cutting devil .
That was around early 70's
The man is a genius.
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Cool!!!!, something different that I haven’t seen in a while keep them coming!!! There’s your dinner, whooo!!
Taryl, I had a generator with hard gas lines, had a shop work on it, and when we got it back, we sat it on the shop floor, and the fuel line pulled off the carburetor and gas ran all over the floor. I don't know how they missed that, but I found another shop after that.
Love watchig your informative videos mate best small engine show on the tube and you make it fun