That's how it starts , your curiosity about the small engines gets you to learn about them then you get more involved with them and it gets more interesting
I have 7 mowers, all were freebies and some always had a little expense but all are dry and happy. 2 Craftsman riders (one was my wifes, an 85) 2 Snapper walk behinds (one is the bagger, the other the 85 four horse trim) one Gravely with a kidney mower, a Roof 28 inch with the 8 horse I/C and a Toro that needs a deck, hidden for several years. Uncle Sneelock says you can't have too many clamps and I can't have too many mowers. BLESSINGS and I've mostly worked for neighbors and not charged much.
Awesome. I started the same way. I took some classes at a community college 22 years ago. The rest is history. Best money I have ever spent on school. I’ve learned from you, and other videos. I do more free stuff than make money lol. I enjoy repairing mowers blowers and other machines. I have learned from your videos too. Keep making them, great stuff. 👍👍
yes the pieces of equipment that mean the most to me are my dad's 4 cycle weedeater that he gave me and my grandpa's fs36stihl trimmer I inherited from him.
I'm a Very nostalgic and sentimental person. That being said, i've mentioned it multiple times in your other videos, my Grandfather's Homelite ST-185, i'd never part with it. It can stay up on the wall, and be safe there haha. I have a stihl FS85 that I had gotten about 6-7 years ago, and did tons of work to fix and get it going, and it's an amazing trimmer. I'd not be able to part with it. I recently upgraded it to "bullhorn" handles due to horrible back issues. Another "bucket list" item i'd like to have again, would have to be a Gilson 52081 tractor. We had one when i was a kid, and it ran so well, and my dad was so proud of it. It was the first riding mower I'd ever ran, and i can remember vividly, my dad walking alongside the mower while i'd drive it around the yard. Sadly, about 1999 ish, the transmission went out on it, and it got parked in the backyard for years. Eventually, it rusted up, and a scrap guy came and got it and got rid of it. Someday i'd LOVE to have another one. Awesome video IHG! I loved hearing about ur original story, my man.
I have a chainsaw that my dad bought in the mid seventies and I used as a teenager. My first small engine flip was probably 12 years ago. A little mower with a Briggs classic that I bought for $5 and sold for $40.
My father had this exact blower when I was young. He had it for 12 years before it just wouldn’t start anymore. Never had a problem starting until it stopped running. Had I known then what I know now about fixing these, I would’ve saved it. But it still gave him 12 years use.
Three years ago I bought this mini chopper from a friend for $65 and it was the machine that got me into small engines, and I’ve probably replaced every nut and bolt at least once on that minibike. It has one of those 43cc 2 stroke auger motors on it similar to the ones you’ve had on this channel before. At the time I had almost no mechanical experience, but one day I just decided to take the motor apart to see what was inside and I became rally fascinated by how it worked, and because of it today I’m doing small engine repair as a side hustle, and it all started from that one bike.
Yes, the Stihl 026 chainsaw I inherited from my father. After using it for years, including cutting 6 cords a year to heat upstairs, I gave it away after I just had too difficult of a time starting it and really didn’t use it much anymore. Fast forward to today and I can diagnose pretty much anything going wrong with a saw and know I could have gotten my old one restored - starting and running better than ever. Unfortunately, the friend I gave it to ended up giving it to someone else out of state and the trail has gone cold. I’d only keep it nowadays for sentimental reasons, as I have my pick of various free chainsaws I’ve received in the past 20 months, including Echo, Shindaiwa, Husqvarna and others.
I have an old mower from the 90's that I still use (Atco Admiral) and an old Robin brush cutter which is probably as old if not older, neither of which I will part with for sentimental reasons.
I just bought one of these at a yard sale for $20 with all of the attachments including the gutter cleaner. I invested in new fuel line, filter and primer bulb, thoroughly cleaned the carb and voila, it runs great! It cost around $10 for parts and about an hour labor. It's heavy and kind of awkward but it works. Mine is an oldie, 1995 I think.
The most important thing to me is my grampa's kawasaki weed eater (KBL23A), he said that it was one of the first that came to Italy, I fixed it by replacing the fuel lines and carb membrane after seeing some of your videos and I have been using it since then ;)
I had one of these blowers, I bought it brand new to maintain an estate on Jupiter Island in FL. I liked it's lever throttle and the vacuum-mulching capability. It lasted many good years even with cheap poulan 2-stroke oil. Eventually, the engine parts would loosen up and not knowing about loctite back then I scrapped it, still have the piston though.
it all started for me when i worked on my dads husqvarna trimmer and then i bougt my first lawn mower from stiga that was 17 years old and with a little help of a local mecanic shop i was able to get that lawn mower working agean and ni sold it for 60 dollars at the time i didnt know what it whas worth and now i am olmost 19 years old and i have too much stuff now too work on and i get the parts from the lockal mecanic shop and its doing great for me now
I have this identical blower, except that it's yellow and black, and was sold by Poulan as its PBV 200. I bought it at Lowes in 2005 for $99.98 (total price including tax). Never used it much, then left gas in it, couldn't start it, let it sit for years. Then just recently got hip to cheap replacement carbs, put one on, and now use it a lot. It's interesting that the Craftsman version is dark blue, and not the usual Craftsman red and black.
@@INSIDEHOUSEGARAGE Welp, my schedule changed on me, but I guess better late than never! There is way more to the background story, but I recently started working on small engine stuff about a year and a half ago. Mother came across an old Murray mower and planned to throw it out. I picked it up before it left the yard! 🤣 My father had passed, but he had a mower that was his favorite to use. It was a green 1998 Murray Centura Elite mower with a Tecumseh engine. And get this: it had powered front wheels! I got it cleaned up nicely, and then I broke the emulsifier tube very late one night. I was not happy about that at all. Parts are a bit hard to come by, but I have not given up on trying to get it running again. Probably wouldn't cut grass with it, but it is a neat piece of history. 🐺🔧
I just put a new carb on one of these. It was filled with gunk all in it after sitting for years. I've never seen a carburetor so crusty before but I wanted to try an ultrasonic cleaner on it when I get one. First two stroke I've fixed.
Hey bro what's up? I like how you gave us the viewing public the story on how you started to work on small engines. I have an old hunting light which belonged to my dad and I'm not selling nor giving it away for no amount of money. I'm keeping it for sentimental value bro.
The difficulty of repairing 2-cycle leaf blowers was my main motivation for switching to battery/electric equipment as soon as it was feasible to do so (I'm in the lawn business). On some models, just replacing a broken pull cord requires taking the whole damn thing apart. Enough of that brain damage; I will never touch another gas blower as long as I live. Since I made the switch, I've had people try to give me their blowers, and I always decline. The other huge advantage of electric blowers is that the old gas-powered ones have always been the noisiest piece of equipment on the truck, and generated the most complaints from customers and their neighbors. Electrics are far quieter, so that's a win-win, as well.
if I remember correctly my first mower I worked on with my 22 inch about a local mower shop I traded in to mowers it didn't work for this one but this 22-inch had a Quantum engine they swapped on it I had to do some maintenance on it but I started watching TH-cam videos and eventually I start to the point as like no maybe I can start doing this stuff on my own and make it a hobby
I have 2 things, one small one large the small if you can call a ms 650 with a 36 inch bar small but the large one is my 8n ford tractor both were left to me. The saw from a close the tractor from my cousin
This one is identical to my first leaf blower. After some years of use I had to get another one. I'm not sure why. This one was stashed in my workshop for years then several years ago I tossed it outside on the scrap pile. Recently, I was going thru the scrap pile and saw it. I paused, then said why not? It's now on my workbench in pieces. So far, I've cleaned the carb, got the pull cord working again and did some general cleaning. I still have to put in new gas lines and reassemble it. Will it run???
spark plug. resistors can shatter. end of spark. had a hard-to-start MAC saw, so once it started, I just kept it running, fueling up as I pruned/cut logs. Saw stopped. You can guess. Resistor shattered in the spark plug. That's why they explain to let the machine cool down when you do re-fuel. lol.
I have an old Cub Cadet trimmer that was my great grandpa's that would be hard to get rid of. I mean any of my equipment would be hard for to get rid of. l either bought them new or l got them used and spent a lot of effort getting them back in usable shape. We have one of echos 50th anniversary limited edition blowers which would be a hard one to get rid of.
@@INSIDEHOUSEGARAGE They only made 500ish, and echo gave them away throughout the year last year. We won ours on a social media giveaway they did. You could not/ can not buy them from echo.
I own an old Echo backpack blower that runs but starts to die after 15 minutes of it running. Just wondering if you would know what could be casing it to do that. It also has never had menace done on it and it was used in a lawn care business.
hmm.. easiest thing would be to replace the spark plug. Then I would check the fuel tank vent. After that I would consider running it until it does it again, and then testing whether there's still spark or If the carb has somehow stopped working. unfortunately testing is going to be required, but only when it starts having its issues
Thanks for the advice and the problem was there is basically no spark and I think it has to do with the spark plug wires that are wrapped in hockey tape
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That's how it starts , your curiosity about the small engines gets you to learn about them then you get more involved with them and it gets more interesting
you're absolutely right about that
10 years ago you got into small engine repair that's the cool thing
thank you Robert Mailhos!
@@INSIDEHOUSEGARAGE anytime young man 👍😎
It's nice to catch up on your background and to hear how it all started for you. 👍😎
thank you Andrew Orli!
I agree. We’re all enjoying the backstory immensely.
I have 7 mowers, all were freebies and some always had a little expense but all are dry and happy. 2 Craftsman riders (one was my wifes, an 85) 2 Snapper walk behinds (one is the bagger, the other the 85 four horse trim) one Gravely with a kidney mower, a Roof 28 inch with the 8 horse I/C and a Toro that needs a deck, hidden for several years. Uncle Sneelock says you can't have too many clamps and I can't have too many mowers. BLESSINGS and I've mostly worked for neighbors and not charged much.
nothing wrong with having more than you need!
Yes,both of my Holden Commodores & particularly my 3 horsepower Briggs and Stratton push mower have a lot of sentimental value to me !
Thanks for sharing!
I love your videos and your passion I really appreciate what you do and want to thank you for giving me passion again for the hobby
thank you Jon, I really appreciate that
Awesome. I started the same way. I took some classes at a community college 22 years ago. The rest is history. Best money I have ever spent on school. I’ve learned from you, and other videos. I do more free stuff than make money lol. I enjoy repairing mowers blowers and other machines. I have learned from your videos too. Keep making them, great stuff. 👍👍
That is awesome! Thank you Martin T.
1:45 something tells me the fact that you had to clarify that you were driving safely implies quite the opposite🤣
yes the pieces of equipment that mean the most to me are my dad's 4 cycle weedeater that he gave me and my grandpa's fs36stihl trimmer I inherited from him.
very nice!
I have a 1963 Ford tractor that was my grandpas that has that sentimental value to me.
nice, I hope you can keep it for a long time, even if it's not operable
I'm a Very nostalgic and sentimental person. That being said, i've mentioned it multiple times in your other videos, my Grandfather's Homelite ST-185, i'd never part with it. It can stay up on the wall, and be safe there haha. I have a stihl FS85 that I had gotten about 6-7 years ago, and did tons of work to fix and get it going, and it's an amazing trimmer. I'd not be able to part with it. I recently upgraded it to "bullhorn" handles due to horrible back issues.
Another "bucket list" item i'd like to have again, would have to be a Gilson 52081 tractor. We had one when i was a kid, and it ran so well, and my dad was so proud of it. It was the first riding mower I'd ever ran, and i can remember vividly, my dad walking alongside the mower while i'd drive it around the yard. Sadly, about 1999 ish, the transmission went out on it, and it got parked in the backyard for years. Eventually, it rusted up, and a scrap guy came and got it and got rid of it. Someday i'd LOVE to have another one. Awesome video IHG! I loved hearing about ur original story, my man.
thank you Jacob Feather for sharing that information! I appreciate it.
I have a chainsaw that my dad bought in the mid seventies and I used as a teenager. My first small engine flip was probably 12 years ago. A little mower with a Briggs classic that I bought for $5 and sold for $40.
nice work, I think every save is worth it. thank you Brian King
My father had this exact blower when I was young. He had it for 12 years before it just wouldn’t start anymore. Never had a problem starting until it stopped running. Had I known then what I know now about fixing these, I would’ve saved it. But it still gave him 12 years use.
Thank you John Yonker, 12 years is till great!
excellent video as always friend.
Thank you Luan Possenti Melnek J7
Three years ago I bought this mini chopper from a friend for $65 and it was the machine that got me into small engines, and I’ve probably replaced every nut and bolt at least once on that minibike. It has one of those 43cc 2 stroke auger motors on it similar to the ones you’ve had on this channel before. At the time I had almost no mechanical experience, but one day I just decided to take the motor apart to see what was inside and I became rally fascinated by how it worked, and because of it today I’m doing small engine repair as a side hustle, and it all started from that one bike.
nice way to get introduced to small engines!
I have one just like that that’s leaks a lot made by craftsman. Can’t wait to see the next video👍🙏👍🙏
me too, I think you're going to be surprised by what I find. Thank you RayFpv.
Yes, the Stihl 026 chainsaw I inherited from my father. After using it for years, including cutting 6 cords a year to heat upstairs, I gave it away after I just had too difficult of a time starting it and really didn’t use it much anymore. Fast forward to today and I can diagnose pretty much anything going wrong with a saw and know I could have gotten my old one restored - starting and running better than ever. Unfortunately, the friend I gave it to ended up giving it to someone else out of state and the trail has gone cold. I’d only keep it nowadays for sentimental reasons, as I have my pick of various free chainsaws I’ve received in the past 20 months, including Echo, Shindaiwa, Husqvarna and others.
thanks for the info, too bad about loosing track of the saw
I have an old mower from the 90's that I still use (Atco Admiral) and an old Robin brush cutter which is probably as old if not older, neither of which I will part with for sentimental reasons.
very nice thanks for sharing that MrSHAUNE55
We had the 1998 version of this, thing was a little trooper.
very nice!
@@INSIDEHOUSEGARAGE lasted until around 2021
that was a very long time, I doubt the newer stuff could do the same
@@INSIDEHOUSEGARAGE my grandfather sold it when he decided to stop doing his own lawn care. Odds are it's still going somewhere.
I just bought one of these at a yard sale for $20 with all of the attachments including the gutter cleaner. I invested in new fuel line, filter and primer bulb, thoroughly cleaned the carb and voila, it runs great! It cost around $10 for parts and about an hour labor. It's heavy and kind of awkward but it works. Mine is an oldie, 1995 I think.
That is awesome!
The most important thing to me is my grampa's kawasaki weed eater (KBL23A), he said that it was one of the first that came to Italy, I fixed it by replacing the fuel lines and carb membrane after seeing some of your videos and I have been using it since then ;)
very nice work! Thank you Set 117!
I had one of these blowers, I bought it brand new to maintain an estate on Jupiter Island in FL. I liked it's lever throttle and the vacuum-mulching capability. It lasted many good years even with cheap poulan 2-stroke oil. Eventually, the engine parts would loosen up and not knowing about loctite back then I scrapped it, still have the piston though.
I never thought about keeping a memento
it all started for me when i worked on my dads husqvarna trimmer and then i bougt my first lawn mower from stiga that was 17 years old and with a little help of a local mecanic shop i was able to get that lawn mower working agean and ni sold it for 60 dollars at the time i didnt know what it whas worth and now i am olmost 19 years old and i have too much stuff now too work on and i get the parts from the lockal mecanic shop and its doing great for me now
that's good to hear
I have this identical blower, except that it's yellow and black, and was sold by Poulan as its PBV 200. I bought it at Lowes in 2005 for $99.98 (total price including tax). Never used it much, then left gas in it, couldn't start it, let it sit for years. Then just recently got hip to cheap replacement carbs, put one on, and now use it a lot. It's interesting that the Craftsman version is dark blue, and not the usual Craftsman red and black.
yes I was wondering about the color too.
I'll have to give you a snippet of my story later today!
sure thing
@@INSIDEHOUSEGARAGE Welp, my schedule changed on me, but I guess better late than never!
There is way more to the background story, but I recently started working on small engine stuff about a year and a half ago. Mother came across an old Murray mower and planned to throw it out. I picked it up before it left the yard! 🤣
My father had passed, but he had a mower that was his favorite to use. It was a green 1998 Murray Centura Elite mower with a Tecumseh engine. And get this: it had powered front wheels! I got it cleaned up nicely, and then I broke the emulsifier tube very late one night. I was not happy about that at all.
Parts are a bit hard to come by, but I have not given up on trying to get it running again. Probably wouldn't cut grass with it, but it is a neat piece of history. 🐺🔧
I just put a new carb on one of these. It was filled with gunk all in it after sitting for years. I've never seen a carburetor so crusty before but I wanted to try an ultrasonic cleaner on it when I get one. First two stroke I've fixed.
nice work! let me know what you think about the ultrasonic .
Hey bro what's up? I like how you gave us the viewing public the story on how you started to work on small engines. I have an old hunting light which belonged to my dad and I'm not selling nor giving it away for no amount of money. I'm keeping it for sentimental value bro.
thank you Ramadin Sookhoo, for sharing that with us. Does it still work?
@@INSIDEHOUSEGARAGE yes it still works. It is a carbide light. Carbide is $60 for half pound plus it's difficult to get a hold of it.
The difficulty of repairing 2-cycle leaf blowers was my main motivation for switching to battery/electric equipment as soon as it was feasible to do so (I'm in the lawn business). On some models, just replacing a broken pull cord requires taking the whole damn thing apart. Enough of that brain damage; I will never touch another gas blower as long as I live. Since I made the switch, I've had people try to give me their blowers, and I always decline. The other huge advantage of electric blowers is that the old gas-powered ones have always been the noisiest piece of equipment on the truck, and generated the most complaints from customers and their neighbors. Electrics are far quieter, so that's a win-win, as well.
glad to see it's working for you
if I remember correctly my first mower I worked on with my 22 inch about a local mower shop I traded in to mowers it didn't work for this one but this 22-inch had a Quantum engine they swapped on it I had to do some maintenance on it but I started watching TH-cam videos and eventually I start to the point as like no maybe I can start doing this stuff on my own and make it a hobby
nice, it only takes a couple of videos to do it.
I started it with a blower and a string trimmer both under the sears best, when they were still around😢
I know right.
I have 2 things, one small one large the small if you can call a ms 650 with a 36 inch bar small but the large one is my 8n ford tractor both were left to me. The saw from a close the tractor from my cousin
very nice!
This one is identical to my first leaf blower. After some years of use I had to get another one. I'm not sure why. This one was stashed in my workshop for years then several years ago I tossed it outside on the scrap pile. Recently, I was going thru the scrap pile and saw it. I paused, then said why not? It's now on my workbench in pieces. So far, I've cleaned the carb, got the pull cord working again and did some general cleaning. I still have to put in new gas lines and reassemble it. Will it run???
hopefully so, as long as the compression is good.
@@INSIDEHOUSEGARAGE I don't have a tester, but the cord pull is strong. I also checked the piston and ring thru the exhaust port and it looks good.
spark plug.
resistors can shatter. end of spark.
had a hard-to-start MAC saw, so once it started, I just kept it running, fueling up as I pruned/cut logs.
Saw stopped. You can guess. Resistor shattered in the spark plug. That's why they explain to let the machine cool down when you do re-fuel. lol.
I have an old Cub Cadet trimmer that was my great grandpa's that would be hard to get rid of. I mean any of my equipment would be hard for to get rid of. l either bought them new or l got them used and spent a lot of effort getting them back in usable shape. We have one of echos 50th anniversary limited edition blowers which would be a hard one to get rid of.
wow I've never seen the 50th I'll have to take a look thanks !
@@INSIDEHOUSEGARAGE They only made 500ish, and echo gave them away throughout the year last year. We won ours on a social media giveaway they did. You could not/ can not buy them from echo.
that a shame, I guess I'll never get a chance to get one .
I own an old Echo backpack blower that runs but starts to die after 15 minutes of it running. Just wondering if you would know what could be casing it to do that. It also has never had menace done on it and it was used in a lawn care business.
hmm.. easiest thing would be to replace the spark plug. Then I would check the fuel tank vent. After that I would consider running it until it does it again, and then testing whether there's still spark or If the carb has somehow stopped working. unfortunately testing is going to be required, but only when it starts having its issues
Thanks for the advice
no problem
Thanks for the advice and the problem was there is basically no spark and I think it has to do with the spark plug wires that are wrapped in hockey tape
I have the weed eater version of that blower
very nice, these are built fairly well, too bad they had to cover it all up.
Can you give the website please I'd love to fix on different machines for free
sure, I use Craigslist and FB market place, Look at the "free section" or Search "free"
You sound like a religious guy...
you think so?
That's the way you talk...