Talk About Anything Thread V3

MightyRaze wrote:

Just for @thebeal

Sweet!

So the sky opened up here and wouldn't stop coming.


The entire ranch was like that, under 2-3 inches of water. Took SodZiller out and she didn't even spin a tire. Didn't film it because it was still pouring. As soon as it quit it went down. Oh well, maybe next time.

That's a ton of water.  I've heard Austin gets hit with monsoons like this every year.

Now that there is a flash flood.

On another note, picked up a free Murray today. Haven’t decided it’s fate yet but loading it into my truck on my own was not fun. On a slope with three flat tires. Ugh.

Fun stuff. We're left pretty soggy up here too. Last rainfall we had, a couple weeks ago, was like that.

Well get rid of a few mowers and the room fills up again. At least this one will not blow a tranny!
On Wednesday I am finally picking up my grampas cub cadet 104. Engine needs some work and hasn't run in 8 years or so. Still has the deck so I am hoping to get it mowing and slowing restore it as it is a heirloom practically.

that sounds like a fun long-term project.

Yeah. It's tranny makes your horse trannys seem like child's play. The tranny is ginormus and people have hooked up v8s to them and they operate just fine with them. There's the guy who put a jet engine in one too but that's slightly extreme.

Was working at the neighbors and looked inside of a old combine tire and found this . Asked him if he had one more and he said it was lying around somewhere and I could have them .this one I found still holds air but is slightly cracked on one side, tread is still looking good. They will go on the muckraker as it's rear tires are both shot apparently .

Sweet deal, looks like a John Deere rim.

Wonder why they would be John deere, I mean , there were only an extra set for his John Deere 318 lol.

Nice find!

Ok so i'm building a mini bike and I came across this free pressure washer. It had gas in the oil and a rusty carb and gas tank so I changed out the oil. Carb is salvageable but I don't know how I'll clean out the tank. Anyways. It's a 200cc Lifan Honda clone and it doesn't have spark. I wire wheeled the plug and I sanded down the magneto and flywheel. I sprayed ether in it and it wont fire. I don't understand the electrical on this. Is there something missing, wrong or out of place??

Is the oil at the correct level? Looks to be a low oil shut-down on that engine so if the oil's a bit low it'll loose spark.

It's hard to read the dipstick but I can check.

Maybe a bad coil? I would think they would be easy to get a new one as every go cart parts store has them

That's what I thought Biggas. They are pretty cheap engines, however I added another half cup of oil and got a clear reading and she fired up with the open headers because I took the exhaust off lol. I wil put one back on don't worry.

Good find man!

Ah, I kinda figured that'd be the isssue. Haha, nice job muck! Should be a good mini bike engine.

Yep. I think so. I will definitily get a picture of it when its on the frame. It should fit well to. So far I have spent less than 10$ on it. The only real expenses will be the centrifugal clutch and the chain.

Nice, that will be a great mini bike engine!

Rip the governor and low oil shut down out.  What do you have to lose anyway?

An engine lol. Any horizontal shaft engine is like gold to me. I'm ok with the low oil shut off not that I understand it, unless I start going up hills and it shuts off lol. And for the governor, I will see how much power the 6.5HP gives me and adjust it from there. I'm not really in the mood for a piston to fly through my gas tank and into my face though.

I think something in the valve train like valve springs or push rods fail first.  Not good either way.

sometimes my brothers generosity confuses me, today he traded a running mowing 2nd gen craftsman with a great running 14.5 ohv briggs, for a non-running pieced together hunk of junk with a 12hp flattie, and parts off of at least 3 different mowers that I can tell, the engine tins say murray on them, the chassis is a craftsman 2nd gen, and the hood and deck are from a wizard, but he only had $30 in the one he traded, personally I wouldn't have done a deal like that but the lady needed a working mower and it was his to do with as he pleased

Sounds like a charity donation and not a fair trade at all.