Hey guys and how's it going just spun around, there was a free mower on the side of the road. Let me go get up on it, we'll go see what we got. I think it's a free, mower hotel. It has that look.

Let's go see, looks like a toro, actually a decent one. Late 80s early 90s personal pace - let's go see, we got some on the handlebars runs, needs work, free, go electric start too keys in it. Nice rear, bagger, missing a plastic cover for the front. Here.

Don't look terrible. A couple pieces are busted up with plastic, but hey price is right right all right, let's go throw this in the truck. Bring it back to the operating table, see what it takes to resuscitate it. Alright, guys we got up on the bench tis.

The season springtime everybody tries bringing their power equipment out generally. They have a hard time trying to get their honor to some issue with it from sitting over the wintertime most of the time. It's bad fuel, but you never know mice or they just want something new or got something new for christmas anyway, we're gon na go see what happened to this one, what it needs if it can be brought back to life and if not we're gon na go Figure out what failed on that kind of made it go to the curb and not be worth fixing anymore, at least for them. So start poking a little bit.

Hey i've done nothing with it, so we're looking at all of it. At the same time, she is a little low on it. That's fine feels fine, doesn't look terribly dirty. Okay, it does have electric start, which is nice.

It's missing, there's a cover that goes here, that's gone when i want to go roll it up on the bench. It has about a bunch of drag on the wheels. I don't know if there's a problem with the automatic drive, let's go see, what we got for gas tank is empty, does not smell terrible, which is good, there's a battery in it. Who knows what kind of condition it's in that's also missing? The cover too looks like there was a cover over the top of that.

Let's get the bagger off of it, we'll flip it up on its side. Let's go grab the air here, real, quick yeah. That's that's gotten a lot of maintenance huh! So right there is going to make it run with like it has a choke on. So it's going to make it run rich! Look at that bagger off! Should you be able to flip up on that that left right up and out of there no critters in the basket, just last year's grass hey and go flip it carburetor side up generally the way you want to do it, so you don't fill the carburetor up With oil looking at the deck, it's got, a bunch of busted up plastic drive belt is still there the blade it's got a bend on it right there.

I don't know if that's consistent on both sides, rest of the chassis doesn't look too bad. I don't see anybody cracks or busted up areas anywhere on the deck. Let's go layer back down again, maybe we'll put a little bit of fuel in it and uh see how it got left off or running. I'm gon na pop that air cleaner back on too just so that everything is as it was.

So, what's your thoughts, you think it's gon na fire. It up. You think it's been one of the ones that you yank on it half a dozen times a dozen times 20 times. That's usually the ones that get thrown out generally they're still running, they kind of run them into the ground.

So it may be hard starting. Let's go find out a little more than three huh uh, let's drop it down and the gts stands for guaranteed to start. Let's go find out how many pulls. Let me see five five or none three made a little chug four there's some kind of white pebbles or something starting to come out of it, some foam or something.

Let's give her a couple more see if she'll go we'll, try the key just in case no, not logic start. I do detect that we have a problem all right. Let's go open her up and start looking into. What's going on, i'm gon na suspect the carb is dirty.

Let's go pop a plug out of it see what it looks like if you've got spark. No that's yeah, there's that is fouled beyond fouled. Look at that sucker that one's really bad! I haven't seen that one bad in a while. Well, i don't think that's gon na have a spark that might be an issue.

Let's go uh hook it up and give her a couple ganks over see what we get. I got a clamp on the handlebar to have the safety on, because that that does kill spark too, and it should be no compression, so it might be able to grab the pull start from. On top of the we got a ground wire on there. I do not see anything, do you go, kill the lights yeah.

We got nothing. I got a brand new plug in there see we get. I am not seeing a thing all right, so we got no spark. That is what it died for all right.

So what these have is, i call it a dead man, it's this lever right here and i got it clamped off all the way forward. Generally, when you're running the mower, you pull that down and that allows the engine to run. It takes a break off of the flywheel and then also uh, there's a kill for spark down below also on the flywheel and the car think it's just all kind of uh one setup anyway. So what happens is if that cable is not pulled enough? It doesn't come up far enough off of the ground that grounds out the coil for spark.

That's a guess on my part. We're gon na go move forward kind of a bad coil. Who knows, let's get this cover off, get into there a little bit see if we can find anything now that covers out of the way you can see the cable. This is the cable i'm talking about that.

It pulls on the linkage and then you see this micro switch here. This is not for spark for the engine. This is for the electric start and it wants to make sure that the brake is not on when you're trying to crank the starter eyeball on it. So that just has a lever to make sure that this micro switch right there that micro switch gets pushed in.

It allows the path the the dc positive to go through the switch and allow it to go to the starter. That's all that is our linkage is still up inside here that grounds it out. So i'm also going to go. Take the pull start cover off, we'll go a little bit deeper in.

Should i just lift that gas tank right out of there? Now there you go. Let's set to the side, and we have one two three four five screws to get out of it and that cover should pop off all right. Let's see what we can see that little green wire is a wire. That's going to ground out this one right here and it is running up it's kind of hard to see it's actually up under the flywheel.

It looks like this one runs in a difficult place, a lot of times, it's generally fairly out in the open right here. So what we can do just to go see if that is causing the issue for now, just unplug it and we'll give it a spin. Let's go if spark comes back, then we know that that is what our issue is. We're gon na go set us up with uh something to go spin that real, quick after one of the other videos of me, spinning the flywheel off of the.

What was it? Wasn't it's an antique something around the old uh pump there a couple youtubers or subscribers rather sent me some one-way ratcheting sockets and what that allows is just for it to spin it. But then, when it starts up, it doesn't spin the nut off. So we got that one and this one. Thank you guys very much.

I really appreciate that. Let's go put it to the test. Let's see what we get. Oh yeah, i got no spark whatsoever, so i think we have a coil a bad coil on this one.

Let me give one last shot: hey. We got nothing so that was the detective work to see what we have. Let's go see what i have in my stash that uh they're physically rubbing all right. This is gon na be controversy.

I know it is a lot of people say that rust on here will affect the fact of the coil working and not working. I so far am in disagreement with that. I would not think that rust can interfere with a magnetic field, so i'm kind of in disagreement. The only thing that i could see possibly happening and whether that being an issue is, if i wonder if it rubs, and it actually makes contact with that, stop the process from firing, especially the the my guess is - maybe the the center post that is on that.

So we're gon na go take a second real, quick, clean them up, see what happens, see what we get, if not we're going to continue to move forward and see what we got going on on the coil. Actually we're just going to pop that off anyway, because we want to look and see if there's any cracking or anything inside the plastic not quite sure what he meant by runs sure it rained at one time, and what do we got? Sometimes you see that the coil will have a crack. There's a spider walking out move-in day for you to leave all right. Let's go take a little bit we'll clean up this surface right here clean these three up and see.

If we get anything, i don't see anywhere where it looks like it was making contact. I don't see any rub marks on it. Did it sound like it a little bit, though, let's see we'll go clean it up who we got? Ah, i just have a piece of folded up paper in between making an air gap. It's really not that sensitive, i'm just going to eyeball it again and make sure i'm not touching.

Looked pretty good. Let's go give her a spin again see if it makes me a liar, no spark. I got ta put the drill on slow because it's shutting off there we go yep nada. That is one dead coil.

So you bet you're saying to yourself: where is he going to come up with a coil? Well, the day after i grabbed this one? This happened. It pays to be a hoarder. All three are for free. We need the toro four parts, and sometimes it pays to be a junk collector, so this one we'll give it a quick look seems like the pull start is out of whack the lever the bar is broke out of the plastic, like some plastics broken on there.

Yeah, that's not doing anything for the with the drive it's broken off. It's got the piece of plastic that we need. Let's go flipper on end. This one's been sitting outside for a while, as you can tell got, mold growing on the bag and a couple of plastic pieces that are in much better shape than what we have, but that's getting ahead of yourself.

Let's get that coil off of there and see if it's any good and we'll run down the other machine. Yeah screws are out and see what this has for surprises for us. Oh mouse nest. How rusty that one is huh, hopefully that one is still good get that out of there pop it onto the machine, see how it does.

This one may be questionable. It's getting uh separation on the plates rust gets in between there and it starts pushing them apart. So that may be already on its way out: let's go hit it with a wire wheel blow some of the crap off of it see if it's any good, though it's separating all the way around and let's see what the new old one does for us there. We go now we got spark, i would say it's great, but we got spark plenty plenty to run back on the old machine, there's a plug that was in it kind of cleaned it up on a wire, we'll take a look at it that insulator in the Center looks really weird: i'm not used to seeing anything with the that style looks like it's for chainsaw more than it is for a mower.

That's my guess. Here's the one! That's in there! Let's go pop that one out take a look at that plug. That's probably more the correct one, you might guess maybe we'll clean that one up and throw it in so there's the two plugs in focus. You can see the difference on the insulator see how fat the one is on there and then the diameter of that one.

That's what i was talking about, it's totally different. What's the number on this one, okay, something 12. j19 lm to uh eco clean, something something something number all right. Let's go clean that one up and we'll put that back in it.

I throw a little bit of gas in here and we'll try that drill set up, see how it works for us might even stay running depending what the fuel is in that carburetor. That's the case. I just got to pull the lever up top as the ground wires back on again. Here we go i'll, let it run there we go and i thought it was going to be fuel.

You did too all right. Let's go continue on see if we could do the rest of it some justice and make it back to a functioning mower again, i think just for shits and giggles, let's um see if that battery keeps using the battery in there bust it off the one terminal. Let's go put power to that and see if that part of it works drop my jumper pack here, but what i do have is a battery and two red test leads all right: black to red to black. Let's go red to red that make sense yeah see if we get anything out of it.

Plug's disconnected kind of looks like it's trying to pull down, but let's give a little dribble of oil on here. To get this thing to kind of do one of them that battery might be low too, would not have enough snot to get her to go. I lost something and the compressor's on nope got nothing man. I guess that battery might be just totally dead test light.

Yeah, it's got power, we lost it somewhere. Ah, the clamp came off the handlebars. We lost this up here and that makes and breaks that switch. That we're talking about earlier in contact yeah, who knows what the condition that battery is in, let's get the plug out of it.

So there's no restriction we'll let it spin a little bit. I think we just need a better battery. I think he's got enough snot to drive it and that's why the starter's not coming down and not cranking over fast enough, and we got a jumper pack hooked to it. Let's see what that does for us still not trying to drive down in there get real.

Just a little bit more, i don't think that's our issue, though there it is well. I think we'll worry about that. If we ever worry about actually having electric start wow, so he was dying, a slow death, it started definitely slowing down the jumper pack's, not dead. So one more shot: that's going down just won't spin.

It yeah, i think she's uh, i'm not having a good day that shouldn't be a clutch between the two of those. Don't let the oil just hurt it well, matt, no about a little rinse, i'm not quite sure what the deal is with the rubber plate on top, but now it's oily, it will not drive it. That's cold! All right, i'm good with that! All right. We know it runs and it'll cut grass but she's a bit of a dirty girl.

So let's go give her a bath real, quick. The pressure washer get rid of some of the crap, that's on it and not under it and around. It is a little easier capacity to do some wrenching on it. That's a little cleaner.

I say we get the oil out of it, they do have drain plugs underneath, but i do find it easier, especially because we have to put a bunch of work underneath anyway. Just to flip it onto the dipstick and let her just do her thing. While it's draining we'll go check out the the ender set, i'm gon na put my finger, there's no plug in it, i'm just gon na spin. It that's rubbing on the gas tank.

I want to get an idea, i'm gon na. Let it rub against me. It's actually pretty close, i'm surprised it looked. You know visually it looked like it was pretty uh badly bent we're gon na go figure out, which blade is the better one, we'll pop them.

Both off and we'll pick the better of the two between that and the parts machine hey. This is the one off the other machine and the wet one, of course, is the one that we're working with now, i would actually say the blade that is on it is better. You can see how much and that's usually what happens. The corners will get burned away.

You still have some meat left on them, and this is lift this little lip that you see here. That's the lift, that's what pulls the grass up like a vacuum: cleaner, anything cuts it i'm just gon na, go! Compare it to the they both look like they have the same bow to them, but i think that's the way that blade is made, especially the fact that both of them line right up with each other. I don't think that's a damage to the blade that i previously thought. So, let's go clean that one up on a grinder, real, quick and uh, we'll inspect what else we got going, get some plastic pieces if we can get them off the other.

One in one piece would be a better replacement like this one right here. Possibly this one it'll charge up on the sander just kind of quickly run them over give them a decent edge. They they go blunt on the edge fairly quickly. Most of the work is done right there.

This is the first thing, as the blade is coming around. It goes and cuts so by the time anything's getting cut into here. There's really not much happening as the mower is moving forward. This is spinning around this is, what's clipping the grass as it approaches underneath the deck.

So again, that's where the most of the work is done right now very last little edge as long as both of those look decent, you're fine. As far as balance is concerned, i've really never had a a problem with it. You'll know: it'll shake like crazy. If there's a balance issue, a lot of guys are going to give me heat for that right now, but i i've never really kind of run into that.

More that you run into is that you have a bent shaft in the middle of it. The blade is sitting awkward or cockeyed to one side and causing a shake got like mud dripping out of it. I would definitely say it's gotten its use and it's got a little part shop, and this is the parts mower, so you can get it. That should be that shield, not quite sure what that whole black plastic piece in the back is uh gon na take there.

That was easy, so i don't the blade or anything back on it yet, but there is one problem i perceive is a problem rolls forward. Fine, if you try dragging it backwards, it just locks. The back tires up. I believe, there's a ratchet inside the gears on the wheels that kind of clog up and gum up over time.

Let's go get the wheels got to come off anyway. Let's go look into them see if we could go fix that part of it while we're disassembling it to just replace, replace the uh broken plastics before we take that wheel off. Just do a quick rundown on how the drive system works. It's got on the handlebars.

You push down on the bars themselves. Those bars retract have a lever that pulls out a cable that cable runs down to the gearbox and there's a lever on the gearbox with a spring on it. So the more you push down the handlebars, the more it tilts that gearbox on the axle, and that in turn tightens the belt up. That's how the dry system works, it's just a gearbox going to an axle and then there's a gear reduction inside the wheel.

All right, let's get the wheel off so on the wheel, there's a gear on the back side of it and then there's a gear right here. It actually does not feel terrible, there's little cogs in there that catch go pop. It apart anyhow there's a little c-clip on there. That'll come off, this will come off and then i believe there is a ratcheting tooth on the inside of it.

If not for nothing. At least you'll understand how it works. Let's get that clip off of there. There.

You go, you can see the little ratcheting chambers that it can fall into and it's got a a key. That's spring-loaded! That's what this one looks like. It is. Okay, let me get you closer so that little key is spring-loaded and it should tuck out of the way when it wants to roll back the other direction.

So you're looking at the gear as the gears going around, it's got a cam on it. It'll allow it to slip in and go past it, but when it wants to go drive it it locks in the other direction and grab drags the cog and pulls it along with it. I'm going gon na take them apart, clean them up oil them that'll come out and again there's a there's a spring back in there. You see the crap that starts to build up on them and they don't get quite out of the way in time.

It's it's not a very good design, especially you know for something that was in a clean environment, fine, but a lot more. I'm not a big of a fan of it seems like every one i find this one might be. The exception is usually gummed up to the point where they're not operating rover on the junk one, and you can see that this one can go either way. It's really not going to do anything for drive, because it's stuck all the way in there.

You can see that the key is just stuck inward: it gets so much crap packed around it and it won't go. There's one on the good mower put back together, cleaned and oiled like a fine tuned watch or breaking into a safe. I flipped over taking the hardware out for the changing of the plastics and you can see how that one's fighting it a little cog in there that one's dirty great example. Before and after i have to gear off that side.

Let's go see how packed in this one is that that should be when it's in there. That should be bouncing up and down. There's a joke there somewhere. Sometimes the springs break too they'll collapse, but generally you just get so much mud packed up in them.

Trying to destroy the spring, getting it out, you know just get so there it is. You can see that spring is just nothing but solid, so poop, then you start digging and all the crap that starts coming out of there, but the mower is probably at least 20 years old. My guess so there's that also it's been around a little while it's not like something would maintain easily it's not like. You can just okay i'll put a couple drops of oil on it.

It'll be fine. The oil kind of attracts debris really, but all right you get the idea, that's more like it springy and you want to. They got letters on left and right pieces outward and that's so much more. Nice, then, on in our little spring, clip yeah kind of go back and forth whether lube helps it helps in the short term.

But then again it also kind of attracts debris. So my judgment is right on that when in doubt go lube all right. That's on our plastics are all put back in place. I got ta just flip it over and tighten the screws down for that one we're going to throw the original blade back on there.

That is sharpened and we'll get her back on the shiny side. Shall we and another piece from the other machine cover up a hole? Another thing i see common on mowers that make them cut real crappy and people throw them out. They just get aggravated with them. They're not getting a good cut, all right, see where the deck height is set on this each wheel's individual and you got basically five settings.

It's it's everything you can there that will drop in between there. So it's one two three, four, whatever six see where that one is it's roughly right in the middle between all the way up and all the way down, look at the front one. It only has one click to go before it is all the way in the down position same with the one. On the other side, it's in the same setup and then the back.

Let's go see what the third one is. Sometimes it's even off from left or right yeah that one is in the middle, so i'm gon na probably set him in the middle all the way around, but you can see how the deck is leaning on an angle like it's an old hot rod as one Goes by so that's going to make a weird cut to the grass too, because the blade is pitched down like this. So the center of the blade gets a good cup, but as it gets over here, it's actually getting higher up in the air. So it makes the grass that kind of set up, and sometimes too you'll, see where it's from side to side.

It's off you go to cut the grass. You go one direction, you go back the other direction, the diff the height between this side and this side leaves you know three quarters of an inch or so difference between the two of them and it gives just a poor cut for the lawn. So this one's no exception with its uh, it's hot rod, leaning forward quick, look at the drunk mower. We are second tab up and we are second and a half tab up in the back.

So even this one's not correct all right, although it did run decent. I do want to pull the float ball off if we find it's really dirty, we'll pull that carb off and clean it, but for now we can access the float bowl, pull the nut drop. The ball look at the main jet in the center. If there's a bunch of crap we'll make our decision from there, sometimes i'll have to get a glass a glass under it.

So you can kind of see what comes out. So you can get my finger over it real, quick trying to maintain the fuel. That's in it it'll come off there we go yeah, it's got water in it got dirt in it. There's a puddle.

If you, if you see on the bottom it moving around, it's like a slightly different color, that is all water, and that generally will not come out of there, because the jet is so fine it'll be hard to pick it up, but the bowl is really clean. So i'm not gon na be that concerned about it. We're gon na go clean that up we're gon na go clean this jet up. This is where all the fuel gets drawn up through, so we're gon na make sure that that is cleaning those ports are clean.

I just put that right back together, that bowl is back on the air cleaner. I do not have another one we're going to go blow that out with air and do our best to get the crap out of it. Sometimes these get oil soaked, especially somebody pitches. It up on the carburetor side and that's possibly what this is or it could be just water again.

The system is not that great, i'm not that fond of these air filters because of the fact that they're let out in the rain water gets down inside here. It's just a paper filter and it sucks them up so go hit that one there going outside huh ew, definitely far from perfect, but it will work and it's backwards. Unfortunately, you can't flip it over, because the the hole for the filter is offset. Take the cartridge and rotate it yeah, but it'll work.

I think we're ready to go just put the pull start on we're almost to that point good, although i put gas in it, so i'm gon na run it out of this tank, make sure there's no water in it. Something just came out of there was that a penny that looks like a cap for maybe a gas. Can i wonder when that fell in there a little bit of dirt, not terrible, though, and again, i'm just gon na. Let it settle to the bottom and we'll see if any water puddles up down below.

I do not see anything right away. Sometimes you look at the fuel. The fuel will be cloudy looking this isn't right now, but if it's cloudy looking you let it sit for 10 minutes and then on the bottom of the water will appear. We're gon na go blow that out some compressed air, we'll go pop, that back on there and we're ready to roll and in keeping with the free theme on this one.

This oil was yard, sale, oil, meaning what they do is people are just when they're moving they're getting rid of everything they go in the garage and they take all the chemicals and they they throw them and turn like milk crates, and they put them out and Make a free pile out in front and i come along and then grab them or stuff like this, or sometimes, if you're going to go flush an engine out and to get rid of it, real quick, but this was actually a full jug. Having said that, i did pay for the gas, though i'm confident all right, how many pulls you giving it plus three pumps do what it says when i say purple well, there you go, and i would call that a success from the trash to treasure. I think we could peel off our sticker. Self-Repel works, unfortunately, there's no grass outside the cat actually snowed.

Yesterday i was kind of hoping the snow was going to stay there for a goof. I was going to go, try cutting snow but it disappeared. So that's kind of a before and after huh. Well guys, i think that's it.

We were able to save one out of the two junkers that we had and really put no money into it whatsoever other than fuel. Everything else was uh pieces from the other machine. It could you know you could put a new plug in it, uh a belt, the uh blade. If you wanted to air cleaner, but everything's functional the way it is it'll cut grass for a couple of seasons just like it is, and it turned out quite well.

I don't have any grass to go cut yet it's too early in the season, but i'm going to keep it at my house. I'll run it for a little bit. I kind of do that with all of them just kind of run through the paces. Make sure.

There's no issues with them and then i'll kick it to the curb. It's probably worth 100 bucks around here 120. Maybe the other one will steal some parts off of it and the carcass will go in purgatory, which is my dump trailer and i call it purgatory because until it gets dumped, i go back there and i pick pieces off of it for the future. But for now i think it's definitely served its purpose as far as getting all the busted pieces from that one onto this one and making us a good machine.

So i'm happy with that. I think that's curtained out quite well and uh. I don't have a battery like i can put a battery in it. If somebody wants to have the electric start work, they can go chase that the other problem with it is it's missing the plug.

It's got a little plug a little dc transformer plugs in the wall that back charges the battery. It doesn't have a charging system to recharge that, but it starts easy apparently starts on one pull all right guys. I want to thank you all for hanging out with me have a little bit of fun, doing some wrenching and uh working on the cheap, we'll do it again soon until that time i'll see you bye.