Speaking well, that sure looks like something mad max would put together huh back before his time, so the axle is definitely locked up. The brake drums are locked up, the engine has looks like a mouse nest in the front of it, and then sometimes you put a tarp over something. It actually makes things worse and it's kind of probably what happened with this, and it did a lot of corrosion. But everything is pretty simple on it: straightforward and mechanical.

I think we'll have a good time trying to resurrect it without further ado. When we say we get that hood off of there we'll start looking into the engine and getting that shroud off and getting the critters out of it and see if we got spark and all that kind of good stuff, hey guys and how's it going hey we're Going to continue on this homemade tractor built in the 60s last episode, we dragged it out from underneath the house. It's at i don't know my guess is 15 years, or so at least stuck down inside there, and although we tried to get her to fire up and run, we had no spark is where we left off. Engine seems like a spin's.

Okay, didn't have any issues with that. It just had this funky coil set up on it right there and we went through every possibility to try to get around it and have it be cured, but it wasn't having it. A bunch of tar was dripping down below the magnets down here from the uh, the packing that was around the coil and then, when we buzzed it out, it was open and at one point we got it to kind of show good resistance going across the windings And out the other side, but that didn't uh last very long and it the whole time never had any spark. Well since then i got a replacement coil for it.

Hopefully it's the right one. You got to punch out the core from the other one and install it in this. So without further ado, let's start getting into it see if we can get this thing to run. There's a couple of funky clips on here.

It was so rusty when i first took it apart. You couldn't even tell it was two separate pieces unless you just lift right up out of there magnets holding it in the wire to the bench. Let's see we can mark it, so we know which way i can. I guess we're going to call this the right side - and i don't know about - let me put it in the press - doesn't look like it's going to come out of there.

All that easy. We have to even cut all that stuff off of there. Let's make sure that that's even going to fit looks like it's a little on the larger side. Doesn't it i'm not sure that's going to be the there it goes is it stepped? Is one side larger than the other man? I think it's just some flashing on the end of this right here.

All right. Let's go to press see if we can go tap that out of there, let's go just try beating on it. In the vice first see you should move for us, did it move? I think it just did in the last one yeah, i guess, bending over the end, i don't want to do that. Driver home probably have to get down inside there with a brass rod or something i'll clean that up on a wire wheel.

So that's tight. I don't want to play lube on there or not i'll go for a little great. I think it's going to hurt it right. I just don't want to split this casing, open trying to knock it down.

You could draw that in slower with the vice hope. It's the right way push that amount of plastic out of there. That's not good, not sure. Where that came from, hopefully it did not cut into any kind of windings.

Oh i'm gon na go find out. I'm gon na go center that a little bit more too fed that through the sheet metal and then we'll put that end on there, it's got a little stabber in the middle it just crushes down on the wire, and then you fold it over. I think that crushed it yeah sure it stands up. It's got a it's got to pierce it.

Try that i still have a jumper wire going around to the points. I don't have, the one that was built into it, but hopefully you get something. Oh yeah. First, crack us off nice, get you in yeehaw you there.

What that means. Don't you go get some gas i'm going to bet that carb isn't messing. We still need to go deal with that, but we're going to do a little bit of cool down the plug hole, hopefully be able to get the fire with the drill. I still have to make a one-way clutch up for drills, so that once it starts it can freeze feel a free spin.

Unfortunately, i don't have it right yet see what we get see if she'll go. I don't think the drill's gon na do it. The drill. Doesn't have enough snot to get it up over the hill, that is where good old electric drills come in handy.

Let's give that a shot. You go from a bit adapter 3 8 to half inch half inch to three quarter to a deep, socket you're going the wrong way and it gets that's fast. That's slow! Let's see if this will do it without breaking my wrist and spun all the nut and everything right off too. It fired right off nice all right.

Let's keep going all right next, we got to get that carb off we're going to look and see. What's going on inside there, the fuel was shut off. I think on the gas tank, whether it had fuel in the car, but not is gon na be anyone's guess, but hopefully it comes out clean, but we got ta go kind of go through it anyway. I wan na make sure that's uh good to go so, let's get we got one two there.

It might be one underneath on a tab and then just the throttle, linkage that comes up to it on the other side. Yeah that should be kind of like bouncy like a spring, seems like it's just gon na stay wherever you put it four rpm yeah. Looking back in there remove the throttle he sees like a bunch of it's like it's got it rubbing up against the bowl. Let's get this crap out of the way.

Yes, that shouldn't be rubbing on there, that should be a straight shot up and down with no drag to work. The governor, i have a feeling this probably had a spring on it, a little tab, and this is an adjustment for the governor. I guess we'll worry about that when we get it apart, yeah, i know somebody put that band. It kind of looks like a factory bend, though right a little kick in that it does yeah.

Let's get the carb off got to take the fuel line off. Linkage is gon na fight us, which one's gon na be easier to work around. You can get to turn up sideways. We can get the link job.

It was, on the furthermost hole all the way out on the bottom. Remember that go to the bench. Let's see we get i'm thinking that linkage was on backwards and when i'm looking at it - and i had that offset in it, the offset is supposed to go the other direction and clear that bolt we'll find out when we put it back together. But i bet you wasn't running very well that way it was probably just maintaining one rpm and it never raised or lowered the throttle.

So this one probably goes all the way through and needs to come out hold on a minute all right. Where were we so rudely interrupted? So i believe this one has a it'll be inside here. This is just the air fuel mix for the main, and it's got some crap around it, and then we get a longer one. That's in there see we got the screwdrivers that will fit and that one kind of goes through the center of it.

I'm not like that. That's the brass kind of breaking away. There we go. He needs some lube, a little tweaking on the the craftsman.

I don't think they have a warranty anymore. Do they actually didn't somebody take over some lowe's took over the craftsman toolboy, they might be still warranting it there. We go get one that fits all the way across and has some loop for the sides. There's a joke.

There, however, this looks when it comes out, because this goes right through the ball chamber. It's all cruddy. Looking then we'll know that not too bad all right. Let's go get that one mosquito in here we're just getting into spring.

Finally, the weather's getting nice here outside you hear motorcycles going by there's one right there up here in new england, you hit 50 degrees, it's riding weather. Again everybody gets especially in the springtime. You go down florida, it's 50 degrees, no one's out, almost no one, but around here, convertibles everybody's, all pent up from the winner all right. Hopefully this is not too bad we're going to soak it either way, but let's go give her who's your daddy yep.

I have to kill the gasket. The gasket has a port, the float ball right there and um. Unfortunately, it looks like it's broke around it. I don't think i have one.

Let me go, get a a thin little blade. Let's go! Try it with a screwdriver i'll. Stick like a putty knife around there, get it to break free from one of the sides, we'll just leave it stay with the other side. It looks like yeah, we grab a putty knife, we'll try the hook.

Where was it stuck? We wanted to go with the top correct, yeah cuz i can't get around. I can't get the knife into where the that jet is that passage. Rather, could you make one yeah right, not bad awesome? Hopefully the float is good. We're gon na go, throw that in there and see if it floats.

Let's get the pin out of it. It's tapped in we've got to tap it out. Did we save the gasket, which port is it it's this one right here comes in? No, that's fine! Some of them they have a the passage like say this line coming in it comes in a different spot, runs through a passage and then into the carb. This one does not use that.

I do believe no fuel fuels going through there good. Let's go tap that pin out of there. We might be able to get that gasket off once that pin is out and we can soak the whole thing. Ultrasonic, cleaner yeah somebody's definitely been in here before us, because some of this stuff just looks too good a shape.

The gaskets and your tools, just a little too big, grow up they're. Almost there yeah that's been replaced. That is not a a 60 year old setup that my punch won't go all the way through get the pin all the way up. I'm gon na grab a pair of pliers and give it a little.

So oh not going to worry about that. One that one's easy to the pool everybody in and we'll set her for, let's go half hour. 50 is good buzz away, hey! Well, that's doing his thing. We could probably jump on something else.

We have. We got a break, that's frozen and no breaks. All the breaks have to be gone through. We could probably wouldn't hurt to change the way i don't know, maybe we'll run it a little bit and then we'll change the oil.

Let's splash up all the crap. That's in it and settled in the bottom and wash it fluid mask this on the bricks steering looks like it's all functional chain. These lube the belt will look into we'll run that that seems like it's fine should probably take a wire wheel. What's the deal with that, that's the pedal, that's the titans loosens the belt, with the pedal for go and no go, is going to take a wire wheel and we'll clean the crap out of these knock the rust off of them, and you should check the gearbox.

If there's anything in it in the rear, i think it's all one. You think it floats from one to the other or two separate chambers, not sure. Oh i'm good with that throttle cable, but nothing here moves let's uh. We can free up that pivot.

It's either just rusted up or you may have cranked it down, because that throttle was wacky like i said that that linkage was rubbing right up against the ball. I think it was on backwards. So let me it may be to having governor issues. If it's got governor issues, then we're just going to make it a gas pedal run it like a car.

You know i should probably take that off and hit it on the wire wheel too. So the rod was on the all the way out and the spring is on the second to the last one out. You remember that, for me, it's your job, let's see if we get this whole thing out of here, take it on a wire wheel, clean up a little pivot points. That's the end of the cable right there i'm moving it's moving on the other end, but it's the it's the springiness of it.

That's no good pull yeah she's locked right up. It's got. I don't know if that's a nut that goes on that springy cable! You know what i mean, i guess it maybe uses it as threads. I'm gon na leave that there i think we could just take the screw out right here.

I think it's a a straight through there's no end on it and that's the case. We should be able to put vice grips on this side kind of tap down, pull it out. We'll clean up with a wire wheel shoot some lube through, so you can get that cable to recover. If not we'll find something else.

Let's see, i should be able to pull that lever right up off of it. There we go, that's a straight shot, all right, let's go, give it a tug. So essentially, it's just a big wound piece of wire spring in the cable, i'm just going to throw some oil on the outside of it, and some of it may soak right through just to kind of help. I don't know how rusty it is in there.

So it'll just kind of help it usually it's on a sharp bend is where they get it locked up that right at the very ends all right. Now, let's get some pliers on. I see you can get it. We can get a good shot with the hammer going now the bracket's just pulling away spin it too.

So i know it's free up to here. It's up in here up in here. Let me get you there, i'm bending it cable's bending up to here and then twisting the body. Let's give her a little pull that right out of there there.

It goes definitely pretty dry right. There is where it was still a rust on it. So it was towards the very top. Let's go clean that up, so you can get that to do its thing again.

I'm gon na hit with an air gun just blowing crap. That's in the line out. I didn't see anything uh massive coming out, get some uh. I don't know what you want to use for what i got penetrating lithium grease.

You can go, get some of that to feed through the cable, this cans kind of beat, though i should take it. Yeah that went far. Let's go. Try the other one like it's! A big spring, so it can, if there's any stretch in the spring anywhere yeah yeah uh.

I think our best bet is to lube the cable that we're putting in and we'll throw some lube on the outside, because the outside becomes the inside plus it keeps it from rusting. So many jokes, i clean that cable up whatever i do with it here. It is, let's go, do the same for this. Actually, let me just grab my fingers we'll see how well that goes back.

I think we need the branch grips so so put it backwards. Come on last little bit there you go yay. So, judging by the way this is set up, it has threads on the end of this rod. Here it looks like it was.

A snow blower could have been a tiller also, but i had a throttle you just set at 1 rpm, it's kind of common on those little older, rototillers, uh snowblowers. So we want, i said second hole in right. Second little hole in grow up. That's our pivot! That should have a shoulder on there.

Let's go see, what happens should have a shoulder on it that it doesn't lock up. You know it might be missing. This might be missing or bushing yeah, because that's just going to crank right down on it. You get slop enough for a bushing, no all right.

What i'm going to do is i'm going to take a punch and whack the threads, so they have a little bit of drag on them and i'll just tighten the bolt up to where you can have a little bit of free play. So that's just going to loosen up for honest if i just leave it like that, i don't want to put loctite in it. It has a little a little love tap. Let's see how this works won't go in at all, that's a piece of wire wheel.

I did not put it in the hole. I was pretty premature on my insertion. The top rod is not, and i should hook it to the throttle. Cable too.

Ah, screwed up okay, give me some room here. Let's hook that carb a little bit more we're gon na, it's only been a 30 minutes, i'm gon na reset it it just clicked off and maybe we'll get some kerosene and a brush and we'll clean this crap off of it best. We can i'm not looking to restore it. I'm looking to restore.

I don't want to paint anything. I want to get everything mechanically working again, just run it with the looks that it has. I kind of like it uh yeah. Let's go! Do that we'll go clean that stuff out? I blew it out a little bit more and then we'll try putting looking putting all the old wiring back together and the original condenser.

This is an aftermarket one. I threw on there just to test last time, we'll put a lot of stuff back together, we'll see if we still have spark, if not we'll change out components accordingly, get that buttoned up bath time. First though, this is just kerosene in a spray bottle, just kind of pre-soak things, so about 45 minutes worth see, we got it's. Looking pretty good, go rinse that there's some water blow them out was the float still floating yep soup's done.

I blew everything out. Let's compress there check myself a q-tip seat for the needle, so the fuel comes in and turns on and off. I want to get good polish on it. It doesn't look beat up at all no corrosion on it.

It's in yeah. I think the last time i went to see ran somebody did the car on it. So it's only 15 years old instead of 60., all right all clear. All right do we have to have the gasket on.

I think we do before the i'm just going to piece it back together how it fell apart. The majority is on just sure it's this way or flipped over the other way. You think i'd see that bar across the gas gear right. There is like that right right.

Yes, normally, you put a drill bit under there, a certain size, and it tells you the gap that you set the float to it. It actually looks pretty good. I always just kind of go with straight across when it's flipped over. I'm gon na blow in it and then flip it over and it's working.

I don't think we have anything else inside this. Do we a little broken piece, we're gon na a little broken piece? We're gon na piece back, keep the fuel in the best we can. They could use their turn on a wire wheel. Do i put all the old parts back on for the charging system? Let's go spin her over make sure we still got it well.

Yes, we do. I'm gon na go check if i still have the old plug. That's just some generic plug. I grabbed i don't know, don't know what the rating is supposed to be for it somewhere.

I got the original plug. Maybe we'll go. Try that to make sure it still does this thing yeah that will coil really bled out. It's got a big hunker tar down sitting on the flywheel.

I don't know like: did the engine run real hot and then because it had to be like parked when it happened? You know if it was spitting out tar while it was running it'd, be all over. The place not just in one spot, so i had to be while i would stop this happened. Who knows been just a hot day? All right? I think we can get that back on there do a rinse yeah, that's definitely what it was flip that rod around now it goes around that bolt and we got a spring loaded. He's got a governor inside that as it revs up it takes throttle away and you can influence that by how much cable you pull on the spring.

That's over here and that's the throttle. Cable that goes up so you're, essentially forcing more throttle on it and then, as it gets up to its rpm it'll it'll back off a little bit. So you know this is 2800 rpms. The cable pulled all the way up, and then you let it relax and go the other way as soon as it runs the governor goes back down and the throttle goes back to its its idle post when it revs up it.

Just pushes that lever right down and then go back to idle, get that flywheel on there. What else anything else any gas tank, but i think we're good as far as trying to run off the carb, yes get that flywheel on there. I got the flywheel on the fan, trout, everything buttoned back up. Let's give her with rope start.

First, you can get it. You shut the dial on that card too. So, who knows maybe take a little bit of prime itself too. All right give me a call.

I got the choke on and i do see gas dripping out of it. That's not a good sign make the float stuck. We got a gravity, feed tank right over there feeding it. Let me uh give her a couple of taps on the bowl see if we can get it to settle down there.

You go good old bumper, that's where you want to be dialed in nice. Just cuts right along, hopefully that boat will seal itself. If not, you got ta, go back in driver up stay going, sometimes a little bit more in the rich side kind of helps. That's a thumper, though huh get a little bit more.

Sometimes you take a second push it on idle for it to respond. So you got ta turn it and kind of see what it does the air cleaner's not on it too. That's going to make a difference, but for now let's see if i'll take a rev, let's get a little bit more and shut it off. Here we go and we'll go, give it a second see if that carb does see if it keeps leaking, we know that gas gets on crap.

On top, we had a couple of cracks in it, but the fuel level should only be about this high. It shouldn't be up above that should be down right about right about there, so it shouldn't be overflowing just sitting still see what happens. That's about 10 minutes later run. The fans get the smoke to clear out of here, yeah she's, a tad smokey.

That's all right! I don't seem to be licking any more gas anymore. That's good fuel still hooked up to it. Just needed a couple: love taps on that float that the needle seat to seat a little better. That's where i was cleaning up the q-tip to try to help that, but apparently it's a need a little bit of love.

Let's keep an eye on it worst case, we'll grab a carb kit, for that probably should get one for the you know the broken gasket anyway, all right, so i think this one we're pretty much going to go sign off for now. I think we'll pick up from here we'll get into the brakes. The mass cylinder stuck see how the transmission is drain, all the fluids out of it. I think we get that stuff done.

We will be an operating tractor, i'm happy for that. Get her hood back on her putter around see how she does see how she pulls, but that'll, be for another day, not today, with that guys, i'm gon na sign off yeah for hanging out with me, wrenching and making smoke and fire and flame, and all that Kind of happy stuff - and hopefully we'll do it again on the next one, all right guys. So then i'll see you bye all right. One more time see how she does choke off.

So you should just go right. Over keep going got ta, give her a little bit of throttle, so seemed a little undecided there for a second yeah. I think he's taking great shoes with it. You can get it.

You see the rust falling out of it. I wonder why i wouldn't turn you.