You're right, not every time you have success. Sometimes a fail makes you learn valuable lessons, even if not expensive at all. I tried to fix a lawnmower engine, Briggs 195, it always started and after 2 seconds shut down. Everybody said it was dirt in the carburator, ordered a new one, same result but at the end I figured it out. It was actually the air filter housing, twisted diagonally. I made a heavy ring and put it on the inner side so the bolts held the whole circumference and it works like a charm. Cheers, Kim, keep on.
Great video, Kim....you got a lot accomplished in one day. Good to see you are wearing the latest in "safety gear" ha, ha. I think I saw the SUN shining when you were fixing the pallet jack !
Well done! But go back to the Atco Club mower, I've had a bit of experience with these. That drain you emptied the carb with is actually the main jet, if you've wound it right in the old Tecumseh won't ever run! There should be a small black screw at the side of the carb which is the idle jet, the main jet is the fat one at the bottom of the float bowl incorporated into the bowl fixing bolt, if the new carb is flooding the engine then you need to set the float height, don't take it for granted that it's set right from the factory. As you took the flywheel off you might as well have cleaned the points, they are under an aluminium cover and the points gap is stamped into the cover. That rubber crankcase vent tube that goes into the back of the air filter box, don't break it as you'll never get a replacement! They're like unicorn droppings 😂 once that old Tecumseh H60? Is set up it should run lovely.
Great job and a big hello from whats left of the USA. If You and your Husband ever come back to the States, Try and go to the Great Smoky Mountain's here in Tennessee and NC. As always I liked and shared. All my very best.
Good job, you got more done than I did last week! Some of those Tecumseh carbs have a tiny little air vent hole drilled through the side of the carb body( maybe 10-15 thou in diameter) to vent the fuel bowl. Check and make sure it's not blocked, if it is it will always flood.
Excellent video Kim :) my late Father had same motor Tecumsen 6hp on 1976 Sears Rottellier he horrible time with carb and had be adjusted so much every time used it ! I tried finding a new carb in 2021 but scrap the whole thing for $200.00 in metal scrap dealer gave me for it and plan but new one too in future!
Nice cost effective repair on the pallet/pump up truck, ridiculous pricing on so called OEM. Mower sounds like fueling issues 😢. Thanks for sharing and take care. John.
You continue to do great work. I never would have thought of the drill bit trick so I'm going to keep that one in mind for when I may have need of it. The trolley jack fix was inspired!
Hey, try the mower again but on grass. Some carbs hate cylinder mowers when on a hard surface because of the vibration upsetting the float. Wheel it onto your lawn and try it again! Good luck!
Always entertaining. Surprised to see that old school Lauson "Tecumseh" engine on that reel mower. You're correct, those carburetors were a poor design. When i was a kid, many, many of those mowers gave up their engines for go karts and mini bikes. Truly amazed you could find a carb for it. I winced a bit seeing your choice of footwear when you tried to start it but eh, you know what youre doing. The Hammer Time reference got a big smile. Good to see you. Best regards from Indiana, USA.
Strip the carbs in a baking tray. Im sure His Lardship has some for his cake baking ? Just give it a rub with a drop of kero when you're done and pop it back in His kitchen press, He'll never notice 👍 My personal preference is stripping small spring loaded items over grass, this regularly leads to a vigorous cardio workout & has saved me a fortune in gym memberships ❤ Glad to pass on these helpful hintz. Keep er lit Kim 😄
Kim you do nice work, I started out in small engine repair and if and older B/S or Tecumseh came in that had points, even if it ran, we would put an electronic conversion in it, and it made it easier to start and it change the personality of the motor . I would say it improved the machines reliability
Good video Kim 👍 bet you find the fuel needle soon🤔😁 that carburettor looked like a Chinese copy 🤔 i bought one for a 12hp Briggs and Stratton and the engine ran like a bag of spanners 🙄😬 ended up making one carburettor out of two and job was a good one 👌 little petrol compressor be a handy piece of kit 👍 could end up in Kurts tool kit 🤣
Hello Kim , great video as always dont want to sound a know it all but had similar with the same engine and a new carb , had to almost screw the screw in the bottom totally in then out about half a turn , previous carb used to have to play with that screw now and then :) but once right runs and starts a treat ,ps i also managed to loose the needle valve 😁
Nice to see the big Atco. Maybe a minor timing tweak will have that sorted or maybe just idle mixture. My 20 inch 2 stroke Villiers engined 1954 Atco’s coil failed this year . But at 70 years you can’t complain. New coil has been delivered and Little job for this week. Love to see the innovative ways you get around problems
Freaking hilarious. 😂 interestingly enough, I myself just experienced a gravitational reality warp of a dropped carb needle. I saw it hit the floor and things got all bendy….and it was gone!
Brother brought his mate's mower round as he'd fitted a replacement carb to it, but couldn't get it to stay running. Eventually worked out that he'd fitted the "outer" gasket to the "inner" gasket position and it was blocking a vent hole, but what was funnier was he had my nozzle cleaners in the little plastic idle jet, but managed to pull out the brass metering insert and drop it on the floor. 5 minutes later he'd found it and said the nozzle cleaner was going through it ok now. When I looked, he'd picked up a small curl of phosphor bronze swarf from beside my lathe and was trying to jam it back in it's carrier ! 😂
I found that used commercially, and there were a lot of commercial machines fitted with Tecumseh/Aspera engines, that the machines were somewhat unreliable. This made them unpopular and often machines with Briggs & Stratton engines were preferred.
Kim, I find your work to be quite enjoyable and have been a subscriber since the first video of yours that I watched. Best of fortune to you, young lady. Joe S, Idaho and Alaska
Aww im gutted you gave up on the Atco! 😔 Then again… it’s only an Atco😆. Nice repair of the pump truck… that was a ridiculous price for a replacement part!😖
Good work there young lady. Make sure his lordship moves that dumpy bag of sand and unloads it with a hand shovel and not a mini digger. You have to keep him fit as he gets older otherwise he will get lazy like an old cat or a dog. And we all know how they like to sleep, eat, sh....t, drink, fart repeat!
That is a high quality cylinder mower because it has many more blades than a standard domestic mower hence about twice as many buts per metre run of mowing it might have been a greens mower in an earlier life! However before you spend any more time or money inspect and check the condition of the fixed bottom blade and each of the knives on the cylinder for wear and straightness. Removing the screws that hold the bottom blade in place in particular is often really difficult due to neglect and corrosion.
Неплохо получилось.Я когда однажды потерял втулку поплавка,то спокойно вместо неё водрузил обыкновенный гвоздь соответствующего диаметра,отрезанного по нужной длине.😉
Cool, I laughed when I saw Mr AdamConstruction appear when you were cutting the drill bit. Might suggest an upgrade to your footwear, any thing than flip flops (what they are called in Canada).
Nice repairs. Sometimes those little engines can be a pain. I hope you got it figured out. Are you still planning to attend the Brownsville PA show next month?
There are some old machines where if the quality is there it's worth going in full throttle and getting it up and running. Other machine's, not so much. Time is the bigger issue for me. I can't afford to clutter the working part of the shop and loose billable hours. My other rule is, if I can't use it or onsell it for a profit I get rid of it or don't touch it. Building up and tooling a workshop takes time and money. Over the years I must have saved at least $ 300,000 by buying and rebuilding used machines rather than new. BUT if you don't assess the viability and cost of rebuilding you can get buried in useless junk. The art is tooling up enough to take on a wider range of work. It's taken me thirty years to get my shop to fully equipped. I have one, just one, dust gatherer in the corner. I got it for next to nothing but it needs a new feed belt. One day I'll get to it. But paying jobs come first.
How did you get on with the cheap fuel tank? I bunged one on a rough cut mower and it pissed fuel out the cap as if it wasn't there! Didn't have a genuine one to try and see it it was the tank or cap. Some of the aftermarket stuff is so cheap, had a full ms260 carb, filter and rubber hose kit for 6 quid delivered. If it lasts a year and I replace again, still quids in.
@@CalamityKim1 be interesting to see how it handles being used/on vibrate. Even if you have to modify some of this cheap stuff, it unbelievable how anyone could turn a profit.
Sounded like you were using flux cored welding wire, is it dual shield or gasless if the latter by using shielding gas you change the metallurgy of the weld and weaken it.
You're right, not every time you have success. Sometimes a fail makes you learn valuable lessons, even if not expensive at all. I tried to fix a lawnmower engine, Briggs 195, it always started and after 2 seconds shut down. Everybody said it was dirt in the carburator, ordered a new one, same result but at the end I figured it out. It was actually the air filter housing, twisted diagonally. I made a heavy ring and put it on the inner side so the bolts held the whole circumference and it works like a charm. Cheers, Kim, keep on.
Great video, Kim....you got a lot accomplished in one day. Good to see you are wearing the latest in "safety gear" ha, ha. I think I saw the SUN shining when you were fixing the pallet jack !
Well done! But go back to the Atco Club mower, I've had a bit of experience with these.
That drain you emptied the carb with is actually the main jet, if you've wound it right in the old Tecumseh won't ever run! There should be a small black screw at the side of the carb which is the idle jet, the main jet is the fat one at the bottom of the float bowl incorporated into the bowl fixing bolt, if the new carb is flooding the engine then you need to set the float height, don't take it for granted that it's set right from the factory.
As you took the flywheel off you might as well have cleaned the points, they are under an aluminium cover and the points gap is stamped into the cover.
That rubber crankcase vent tube that goes into the back of the air filter box, don't break it as you'll never get a replacement! They're like unicorn droppings 😂 once that old Tecumseh H60? Is set up it should run lovely.
Thank you for this. I’ll give it a try and let you know how I get on. I was getting pretty tired of it.
Great job and a big hello from whats left of the USA. If You and your Husband ever come back to the States, Try and go to the Great Smoky Mountain's here in Tennessee and NC. As always I liked and shared. All my very best.
Good job, you got more done than I did last week! Some of those Tecumseh carbs have a tiny little air vent hole drilled through the side of the carb body( maybe 10-15 thou in diameter) to vent the fuel bowl. Check and make sure it's not blocked, if it is it will always flood.
Excellent video Kim :) my late Father had same motor Tecumsen 6hp on 1976 Sears Rottellier he horrible time with carb and had be adjusted so much every time used it ! I tried finding a new carb in 2021 but scrap the whole thing for $200.00 in metal scrap dealer gave me for it and plan but new one too in future!
Nice cost effective repair on the pallet/pump up truck, ridiculous pricing on so called OEM.
Mower sounds like fueling issues 😢.
Thanks for sharing and take care.
John.
You continue to do great work. I never would have thought of the drill bit trick so I'm going to keep that one in mind for when I may have need of it. The trolley jack fix was inspired!
Hey, try the mower again but on grass. Some carbs hate cylinder mowers when on a hard surface because of the vibration upsetting the float. Wheel it onto your lawn and try it again! Good luck!
Always entertaining. Surprised to see that old school Lauson "Tecumseh" engine on that reel mower. You're correct, those carburetors were a poor design. When i was a kid, many, many of those mowers gave up their engines for go karts and mini bikes. Truly amazed you could find a carb for it. I winced a bit seeing your choice of footwear when you tried to start it but eh, you know what youre doing. The Hammer Time reference got a big smile.
Good to see you. Best regards from Indiana, USA.
Always impressed with your repairing, designing, fabricating and all around persistence when working with your various projects 🙂 just the greatest 👍
Strip the carbs in a baking tray. Im sure His Lardship has some for his cake baking ? Just give it a rub with a drop of kero when you're done and pop it back in His kitchen press, He'll never notice 👍 My personal preference is stripping small spring loaded items over grass, this regularly leads to a vigorous cardio workout & has saved me a fortune in gym memberships ❤ Glad to pass on these helpful hintz. Keep er lit Kim 😄
Excellent job and recycling old kit 😊
Great to see these old machines repaired and reused. well Done
Great work Kimberly, 3 out of 4 , not a bad result at all💯👌👍🙏😎
You always do great work, Kim! 👌 Thank you for sharing!
Love the safety flip flops. 😂
A little Pakistani trucking channel influence.
Kim you do nice work, I started out in small engine repair and if and older B/S or Tecumseh came in that had points, even if it ran, we would put an electronic conversion in it, and it made it easier to start and it change the personality of the motor . I would say it improved the machines reliability
Good video Kim 👍 bet you find the fuel needle soon🤔😁 that carburettor looked like a Chinese copy 🤔 i bought one for a 12hp Briggs and Stratton and the engine ran like a bag of spanners 🙄😬 ended up making one carburettor out of two and job was a good one 👌 little petrol compressor be a handy piece of kit 👍 could end up in Kurts tool kit 🤣
Guess what I found yesterday after I finished my video… 🤣 yes I did actually find it. Couldn’t believe it!
Hello Kim , great video as always dont want to sound a know it all but had similar with the same engine and a new carb , had to almost screw the screw in the bottom totally in then out about half a turn , previous carb used to have to play with that screw now and then :) but once right runs and starts a treat ,ps i also managed to loose the needle valve 😁
Nice to see the big Atco. Maybe a minor timing tweak will have that sorted or maybe just idle mixture. My 20 inch 2 stroke Villiers engined 1954 Atco’s coil failed this year . But at 70 years you can’t complain. New coil has been delivered and Little job for this week. Love to see the innovative ways you get around problems
Some great repairs there Kim well done 😀 tell me you weren’t welding with flip flops on? 😲
Nice to see the safety sandals hard at work again! 😂
Freaking hilarious. 😂 interestingly enough, I myself just experienced a gravitational reality warp of a dropped carb needle. I saw it hit the floor and things got all bendy….and it was gone!
Brother brought his mate's mower round as he'd fitted a replacement carb to it, but couldn't get it to stay running. Eventually worked out that he'd fitted the "outer" gasket to the "inner" gasket position and it was blocking a vent hole, but what was funnier was he had my nozzle cleaners in the little plastic idle jet, but managed to pull out the brass metering insert and drop it on the floor. 5 minutes later he'd found it and said the nozzle cleaner was going through it ok now. When I looked, he'd picked up a small curl of phosphor bronze swarf from beside my lathe and was trying to jam it back in it's carrier ! 😂
Love the safety flip flops while working on the mower. 9:20 almost spat my coffee out! 😂
Nice Work Kim, well done.
Ingenious! Love the 'outside the box' thinking on the pallet jack. The mower? ehhh, could be valves or rings or gremlins. lol
That is definitely a classic looking Tecumseh engine Glad you found another carburetor for this engine
I found that used commercially, and there were a lot of commercial machines fitted with Tecumseh/Aspera engines, that the machines were somewhat unreliable. This made them unpopular and often machines with Briggs & Stratton engines were preferred.
Kim, I find your work to be quite enjoyable and have been a subscriber since the first video of yours that I watched. Best of fortune to you, young lady.
Joe S, Idaho and Alaska
Hi Joe. Thanks for the comment and support! Take care.
Aww im gutted you gave up on the Atco! 😔 Then again… it’s only an Atco😆. Nice repair of the pump truck… that was a ridiculous price for a replacement part!😖
Thanks. I may have one last go on the atco but I know when to walk away from something.
Also I know! And 4-6weeks delivery time. Absurd!
Small engines, simple enough but damn things can make a person want to scream! 😅 Another awesome video and clever editing! Thanks for sharing!!
as my Granddad says ' some days you're the pigeon , some days you're the statue '
Nice work Kim ,You did a real good job on fixing those items.
Great job Kim, cheers
Good work there young lady. Make sure his lordship moves that dumpy bag of sand and unloads it with a hand shovel and not a mini digger. You have to keep him fit as he gets older otherwise he will get lazy like an old cat or a dog.
And we all know how they like to sleep, eat, sh....t, drink, fart repeat!
Beautiful job Kim. Enjoyed every minute of it.
This is a woman with remarkable strength & ability 👌
That is a high quality cylinder mower because it has many more blades than a standard domestic mower hence about twice as many buts per metre run of mowing it might have been a greens mower in an earlier life! However before you spend any more time or money inspect and check the condition of the fixed bottom blade and each of the knives on the cylinder for wear and straightness. Removing the screws that hold the bottom blade in place in particular is often really difficult due to neglect and corrosion.
Неплохо получилось.Я когда однажды потерял втулку поплавка,то спокойно вместо неё водрузил обыкновенный гвоздь соответствующего диаметра,отрезанного по нужной длине.😉
Always a pleasure watching you handle problems and a excellent job of it too ,well done Kim see you on the next one ,Crack on
Great entertainment Kim.
Another great video Kim. 👍
If that Tecumseh engine was attached to a mini-bike then it would be worth fixing :)
Some gotta win Some gotta lose Good time Charlie's got the blues - 1967 and 1968
Cool, I laughed when I saw Mr AdamConstruction appear when you were cutting the drill bit. Might suggest an upgrade to your footwear, any thing than flip flops (what they are called in Canada).
Love the little bandsaw😮 then I saw the price....😢
I’ve owned it for years. I’m sure they’ve doubled in price. Really great little saw though.
I'm amazed you found that new carb as Tecumseh stopped making engines in 2008.
I really like the fact that you find things that most people would throw away and FIX THEM. Great job!
It's great to see you bringing these things back to life. So many people just junk this stuff,and it's such a waste.
#sorted. On that bad engine, sometimes after you invest too much time in a project you have to walk away…like a relationship!
Great work 👏
Your videos keep getting better , I would like to see you get the old mower running again . 👍
Some you win, some you lose hopefully you'll have a bit of time to look into that mower. They are still much loved. 👍
glad to see I am not the only one who wears flip flops when your working , great video again
I know you said that you can be clumsy. Your skills surpass that. Thank you for another very interesting vid 🙂
😊 thank you
Nice video, Kim 👌😃
Oh no! Alway plug the hole before scraping and wire brushing
13:00 you should of tried to use the fuel filter, any crap in the old tank is now in your new one
I did, the funnel I used has a filter in it.
@@CalamityKim1 sorry I didn’t realise it was one of those funnels
The new carb is for the 2 stroke flymos fitted with tecumseh junk the choke lever is long to clear the airbox...
I am not too fond of Tecumseh's , maybe that's why they don't still make them.
Tecumseh? Well, there’s your problem lady!
Great film. Was that your Femi bandsaw you reviewed on mig welding forum a few years back?
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Nice repairs. Sometimes those little engines can be a pain. I hope you got it figured out. Are you still planning to attend the Brownsville PA show next month?
Thank you and maybe 👀😁
i slung one of them atcos out along time ago good machine when it wanted to work but them tecumsehs were a bit of a bugger to run
So you outbid me on the wacker!
Safety flip flops engaged
Have to get some crocs so I can put them in 4x4 mode 😁🤣
Thank you I enjoyed it thank you
There are some old machines where if the quality is there it's worth going in full throttle and getting it up and running. Other machine's, not so much.
Time is the bigger issue for me. I can't afford to clutter the working part of the shop and loose billable hours. My other rule is, if I can't use it or onsell it for a profit I get rid of it or don't touch it.
Building up and tooling a workshop takes time and money. Over the years I must have saved at least $ 300,000
by buying and rebuilding used machines rather than new.
BUT if you don't assess the viability and cost of rebuilding you can get buried in useless junk. The art is tooling up enough to take on a wider range of work. It's taken me thirty years to get my shop to fully equipped. I have one, just one, dust gatherer in the corner. I got it for next to nothing but it needs a new feed belt. One day I'll get to it.
But paying jobs come first.
How did you get on with the cheap fuel tank? I bunged one on a rough cut mower and it pissed fuel out the cap as if it wasn't there! Didn't have a genuine one to try and see it it was the tank or cap. Some of the aftermarket stuff is so cheap, had a full ms260 carb, filter and rubber hose kit for 6 quid delivered. If it lasts a year and I replace again, still quids in.
Well it seemed alright. I never actually tried to see if it leaked. It’s remarkable how cheaply things can be made.
@@CalamityKim1 be interesting to see how it handles being used/on vibrate. Even if you have to modify some of this cheap stuff, it unbelievable how anyone could turn a profit.
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Sounded like you were using flux cored welding wire, is it dual shield or gasless if the latter by using shielding gas you change the metallurgy of the weld and weaken it.
Where would the fun be if everything went smoothly!
Looks like an Atco Royale B24. Do you have the riding seat too?
I think you’re right and no we don’t have that but.
Mint 👌
good going there, are you still a full-time truck driver
Hi Paul, I am indeed.
@@CalamityKim1 busy girl then, so if i see a HGV wandering about the road, it's just you mentally stripping the mower down...
Is the fuel tap blocked?
Too hot to fix, get a cold drink and sit in the shade 😁😴
You should have been careful and not lost the float pivotl pin.
I think you need to trade the Atco up for a Ransomes, but then they cost a king's ransome...
Using the finger of a glove to protect the threads was a good idea, I was a little concerned about you starting a lawnmower wearing thongs/flip flops.
Boots for toes around spinning blades....can't grow new ones,.! Really enjoy your videos want you NH around for a while....