Fixing A Redneck Repair On A Yard Machines Mower
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Thanks for watching. This Yard Machines mower had some very interesting word done to it and we need to undo it.
These mowers were 79 - 99 bucks at the big box stores. They are now pushing $200 if not more. I always repair when possible. I have fixed equipment and sold or donated instead of trashing. Great video as always. 👍👍
thank you Dan Pags
$250-300. $299 at ace and home Depot. Lowe's dropped it down to $269 for the same MTD . The industry has been doing bad business for years. I blame excessively liberal returns, making too many different models and not fighting against regulations effectively. Also I guess running lean does increase horsepower but the government wouldn't let you play that up. Bull crap
Yes I was shocked. For years these bolt wheel 20" were $99. I bought one for the cabin at Lowes in 2014 and thought $135 was robbery.
I walked past a display and that thing is nearly 300.
I was wondering how you could really profit off a used one with two or three hours work even if you picked it up as free trash... as a fair price was likely $40 for a scratch and dent with worn blade...but now I see. You're likely charging $150.
What a great transformation from 'junk' to a nice looking machine!
Thank you J M.
I have been working on lawn equipment for over 65 years-- I have never bought an air filter for any of my own equipment- I make them
nice
How do you make a two piece air filter for a Donaldson air filter system?
@@mikespain8655That's a toughy! 🤔
Not no where near 65 years but I to enjoy making filters
I did a creative fix on a riding mower. The deck was broken near one of the mounts. I do not currently have a welder, and the mower was not valuable enough to warrant replacing the deck. I took a deck support bracket from an MTD riding mower that I had in my parts stash, hammered it flat, and screwed it to the underside of the deck directly under the support bracket. It provided enough support for the deck to function until I am able to purchase a welder.
hey that's good repair in my book
A true red necked repair I did ones was on a 72 Ford f 100 ,it had a 3 speed on the column ,the column pair of the shifter had warren completely out ,by the time it had warren out finding a new or used replacement was almost impossible so I cut a hole in the floor above the transmission and attach 2 shift handles made from the handle of a push lawnmower one handle could shift it into eather reverse or 1st gear and the other handle could shift it into 2nd and 3rd
We used it that way for about 4 years entail the truck finally gave up the ghost that was in 2004 and it had over 300000 miles on it
It 300 straight 6 in it
very true
Good little video. Yes I've done this "Redneck" repair just recently on my JD L110 riding mower. For some reason the fuel is not get.ting from the tank to the fuel pump ( been extra busy to troubleshoot it) so I had some extra fuel line and took a fuel tank off a spare push mower then hooked it up to the fuel pump and she fired right up and I moved my lawn with it 😂😂😂
hey nice job!
Smile - used molly and sheetrock screws to fix broken Honda airfilter enclosure. On the vintage one neighbor has it protrudes just enough that his planters rake against it. Mot enough meat to drill into so...
Hmm. When younger I may have used a wire coat hanger to hold up part of my car's exhaust system as well as something to patch a hole in the muffler. I have no problem red necking something on a temporary basis. Great repair of this mower.
hey if it works! And thank you D Butler.
On my way to work one morning my exhaust broke behind my cat and was dragging on the street. I yanked the boot laces out of my Army boots in my trunk and tied it up and drove to work nearly deaf. Worked great to get it to a shop after work.
Great video🎉 Thank you. Looks like they never changed the oil on it. It will take about a gallon of gas via 8 engine flushes to clean out that carbon and metal shavings in the oil reservoir.
But it will be a great visual selling point having clean oil in the engine.
It will give the illusion it was well maintained.
yes I think you're right!
My mom worked in a furniture factory. I have been guilty of using scrap polyfoam to make weed eater filters out of it. lol.
nothing wrong, at least you're re-using items
Even as a youngin I usually pick up any lower I see on the road and I love the challenge of fixing it!!
you and me both
Many owners of old VW's should be familiar with using a small pair of locking pliers in place of a rotted-away accelerator pedal. The Vicegrips stay in place until you scrap the car, when you get your tool back for its next mission.
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Clean the emulsion tube inside the carb. There are quite a few great videos out there that explain how to remove, clean, and reinstall the emulsion tube. I had a similar issue on my toro turf master with a Kawasaki FJ180V engine. It would start surging after five minutes. Now it works great. Thanks for all of your advice and informative and entertaining videos 😊
I am referencing the Troy bilt mower that has a running issue when hot
thank you Courtney Kensington
That is very much a redneck repeat, great video
yes it was
We've all tried to save a few bucks and made a redneck repair, depending on the country/continent you're on..... Afghan technology or African engineering we're all just good ol'boys gettin'by!
well said!
Oh yeah. Last winter I went to a friends house to look at a snowblower that was stuck in slow gear. He had used a coat hanger to try adjust the cable and made things worse. After removing the coat hanger and adjusting the cable the right way I gave him shit and advised him about using a coat hanger for repairs.
I then left his house and went to his son’s house where the plastic console on his snowblower was cracked and left him with a reverse gear only. I had to ask the son for a coat hanger to make a temporary repair.
LOL!! very nice story!
I once made a flywheel key from a thick nail.
nice! I like that one too,.
I've probably done every goofy thing known to man to try and get a job or day or week finished with something that hasn't been made since the Flintstones lent it to Barney Rubble but you use what you have at the time. I found that 4-O or OOOO-Steel Wool oiled up makes a good filter when nothing else is around. As to everything else, I plead the 5th or amnesia or general brain damage. Sure we have but getting us to admit it might be a hard thing to pull off. That was a FINE job and you need top dollar for that piece. The last Gravely will be gone from here tomorrow and the splitter shortly thereafter. ROOM! Thanks and Blessings!
nothing wrong with a bit of ingenuity !
@@HomeGaragechannel Poverty and desperation!
Wait... zip ties and duct tape and the 2 greatest inventions ever. 🤣 Love the kitchen sponge filter.
I am convinced there is a black market I haven't found for air filter covers, they are missing as often as not on mowers more than 5 years old.
I have a 3D printer, the design and printing time and effort in getting the filter box perfect is only worth it when you just can't buy one. I have only made maybe 3 or 4 since I got it(lots of other brackets and whatnot but airboxes are a pain in the...)
LOL!! I would definitely to it go them for trying their best!
Yes. One night at the racetrack we fixed damaged sheetmetal and spoiler on a dirt late with a role of duck tape. Dad went from 14th to 7th (6th for a little bit) and there were some real good cars there (and lot bigger budgets).
nice that works too
I just used jb weld to fix a crack in the deck of my mower. Not a rust hole, a flat out crack. Seems to be holding and while it appears to be fixed I’m on the lookout for either a replacement mower or a deck that will take my engine.
that works too.
I'm sure you get flack for the amount of time you spend dealing with the wheels, but it is a legitimate concern. My big riding mower is 16 years old and has never had any preventative maintenance done on it before I got it. The wheels were never greased, and the openings on both front tires have worn out. Both front tires wobble. I added some washer to them and it helped a little, but I will soon have to replace both of the rims due to this lack of maintenance.
yes I've seen that happened before. It's amazing how someone could spend that much money on a rider and not read the owners manual
Great video and topic. I’m guilty of many red neck repairs 😂
me too, not ashamed to admit it either!
The e series of briggs engines are great i have a 500e version of this engine on my victa and its a extremely reliable work horse
nice, I like them too
@@HomeGaragechannel there great engines I honestly prefer them to the older style of briggs engines but tbh briggs engines are just good in general my dad told me when I was young to always get briggs and as far as im concerned he was right never had a briggs let me down 🤣
You made it look like new. 👍🙏👍🙏great repair
that's what I was hoping for, thank you RayFpv
A dish washing sponge is the air filter 😂 i like it 😂
me too!
@@HomeGaragechannel 👍😂😂
that air filter is something else...
you got that right
Choose wisely with 3d printers, cheap ones often can’t do high strength materials. Better ones can do rubber like materials and good strength materials. And high end can do nylon and polycarbonate which is basically indestructible
wow nice, thank you for the information
when i change the oil i would clean the under deck and us the oil to brush it on the under deck and blade it helps keep the rust down i used to have a farm
oh that's a pretty good idea.
Thank you for the video
absolutely and thank you for your time Lil Joe II
I like using zip ties to make plug wire seperators. The ones from the store sucked, plus i got the idea from David Freiberger, so if it is good enough for a lifelong hot rodder, it's good enough for me.
thank you for sharing that
The one thing that comes to mind and just found the pic is using an old license plate as a bracket to keep the muffler on my snowblower. The cheap tin bracket, or the weld rusted and with a little bending and self tapping screws it's as good as new.
nice I like that one
That dishwashing sponge isnt a bad idea to get you by on a cheap mower if it sealed better. Soaking it in oil would help a whole lot more. I'm sure it filters better than a K&N since you can see through a K&N.
very true.
Yeah. If they had cut the dishwashing sponge to fit like an OEM air-filter, I'd have been more impressed.
As an improvisation, the concept has merit. The execution fell flat, though. :-)
I put dollar store epoxy on a leaky cracked gas tank once. .
Nagging thoughts of a major explosion and spraying lit gasoline haunted me, every time I used it.
"STOP DROP AND ROLL" was never a scenario I've ever trained for.
The mower has been in storage ever since.
nice work
I always keep spare parts from donor mowers and it always cuts down on replacement costs.
yes you are correct
Great job
thanks
Awesome video brother. I've learned a lot from your channel.
thank you Revelation Homestead, and your channel is still growing well!
Float pin wouldn’t stay put- two bread twist ties wrapped together as the new float pin!
hey that's a good idea!
The lack of levers for height-adjustment is why I bought a Hyper-Tough 20" mower in 2020, instead of the competing Yard Machines or Poulan variations on the 20" side-discharge mower theme. :-)
it makes sense to me
I'm curious what you would ask for this mower. I just had the identical mower that I repaired and they were fighting over it in the driveway. Maybe I didn't ask enough?
it really depends on where you live but I'm in a suburb of a large city. The new price for this mower is $250 locally, so I'd say $90-$120 is a decent price range considering it's overall condition.
Pretty sure it’s over-revving too. Can’t tell tho as I haven’t really worked on those mowers
Good ears, yes it was slightly then it's supposed to be. I did adjust it, later on.
I have an air conditioner in my house which the sleeve rotted out (it is a large unit which the air conditioner itself slides out from a metal sleeve). For some reason the sleeve is almost completely rotted out at the bottom, but the air conditioner unit itself has no rust on it at all and runs fine. I used a ratchet strap to keep the air conditioner from falling out the bottom of the sleeve. I guess that would classify as a redneck repair...
very nice fix!
well for me i,m not sure really but yeah thankfully Gasket Paper is often a good source of parts to make for either machines that no longer make those ones and yes i have had get creative and measure cut and trim and hole punch to size and it,s often worked for me etc.
nothing wrong with putting in effort to make a replacement, this was one of those times where they didn't try as much as they should have. Thank you Patrick Stapleton
@@HomeGaragechannel my pleasure mate and yes my good mate who lives in NSW (New South Wales) Australia might also agree with me too
here in Indiana we have lots of rust and humidity!
yes from what I recall of Indiana, I would agree.
did a great job cleaning it and getting running I was hoping you would discuss how to check the carburate I have mower almost the same I took the carburate off and clean it put it back and it started and it ran for a few seconds and then it quit I try to start it with staring fuel and it will not start any advice you can give me will be appreciated
did you clean the brass jet at the very bottom of the white plastic part? If not you want want to focus your efforts there.
@@HomeGaragechannel I fail to do that when I took it apart I found one of the three holes that it has plug up so I assume that was the problem thanks for your quick respond Have a blessing day!!
still some of us old timers don't have the ability to order online . parts can be much higher in a store . probably many people wouldn't even know the name of a part or what to ask for .
agreed
These were $70-100 back when I was around 7-9 years old. I'm 14 now and these are now up to $300
thank you for letting us know
As a matter of fact. When we first moved to Virginia Beach, we needed a lawn mower. So me and my dad went to Walmart and bought this (or a very similar) YardMachines 20" push mower. What died on it was the carburetor from the rain.
It sounds like she is reving a little high, there should be a spring hooked to a little metal tab. You can bend the tab to increase or decrease the rpms of the engine.
yes you are correct. Good Ear. I did adjust the engine speed later on.
It wasn't on a mower, but I bought an old Oliver tractor to fix up a few years ago. It takes the cake for the worst repair ever. The previous owner had used a piece of garden hose to replace a hose on a hydraulic oil cooler. I'll let you make your own assumptions as to how well that worked.
wow that was a crazy idea.
I've picked 3 mowers with the same BS engine , I'm a fan of BS engines but these latest engines have issues valve seats dislodging the plastic carburators warp and the gaskets leak keys on the mower disk floged out pull cords frayed on sharp edges
interesting, I haven't had to deal with any of those issues, I wonder if it's a regional issue
Zip ties? Nope, never. I don't know what you're talking about. I've NEVER used zip ties to fix things they had no reason being anywhere near! 😂
LOL!!
What is the pre-spray cleaning chemical used before rinsing off with water?
I'm using the only degreaser Harbor Freight sells, they're in gallon jugs
Ok. Great! Thank you for the reply.
no problem
Man it baffles me what are mower manufacturers thinking when designing mowers? Like for example you have the company Ryobi made a battery operated riding mower that used Lead Acid batteries which are the same kind of batteries that a car would use and now Yard Machines designing a mower without an easy way to do height adjusting.
how long ago was that Ryobi mower? Must have been some time ago?
Great job, Home Garage! :)
Thank you Shoe Slideshows!
Yes, that air filter was bin stock unfortunately, idk also eep spares dr myself
too😊
Just to add it. Sounds like it’s rpm sevens high?
yes you are correct, and I did adjust the engines speed, later on. Thank you Rick Thelian.
I broke the crimp on the low voltage wire to my automobile starter motor. I wasn’t at home but always carry zip ties. I zip tied the wire. It worked and got me home. Did I mention it was 4 years ago and I never made a permanent repair and am still driving the automobile?
wow that's pretty amazing!
I'm not so famous for sketchy repairs as I am for making job site tools to get the job done. Maybe you've heard of my brand..."Snap Off"
LOL!!
My brand is, "Burnt Up." I think we're famous! 😂😂😂🍻
I have same mower it starts when I pump the red button but dies right after. I pull the throttle and parts move but, not by the carb. Do you have a diagram?
No I don't
Hey there, I was wondering if you know the valve lash clearances for this mower?
sure .003" to .006" but I find it easier to set it to .005"
Y you so much for that! I went ahead and adjusted the vale’s to that spec, but unfortunately my mower still has hard starting. I know it is a fuel related issue as it starts and runs perfectly once it gets going with drill, starting fluid, etc. I realized that pressing the priming bulb about 15-20 times gets a good response from the mower, but the factory 3 presses does nothing (this only happens when the engine is cold, starts first pull when warm). The carb has been cleaned and all internal seals look good to me. I wanted to ask real quick about how this system of the bulb works (creating vaccum in carb thus pulling more fuel, idk). Also, what is the little white spigot on the side of the carb? I feel air come out of it when the priming bulb is pressed.
I’m sorry for the long story/question. You’ve been a huge help, thank you!
the bulb "pressurizes" the carb and forces fuel into the inlet of the carb. That's how it primes the engine with fuel. The white piece on the side of the carb is an air vent. Have you done a compression test? If the test returns a "low reading" it would be the reason why it's tough to start.
I hope you changed the oil. It looked like it had never been changed. Also, it sounded like it was running a bit fast.
you are correct it was running a bit too fast. And yes I didn't show it but did change the oil .
Dirt ingestion from missing/wrong/no air filter on a small engine will kill it pretty quickly. So the sponge was a poor attempt at best for a filter.
you are correct
I mean... old sock with a hole in it cut up and sown onto itself to form an air filter.
actually the sock idea is even better! nice one.
Perhaps something in their shed snagged the air filter cover and ripped it off.
that's a very good possibility
@@HomeGaragechannel It happened to me! I promised to mow the part of the lawn I was occupying. Didn't notice the cover was off and the filter was dangling until I went to lower the deck.
Thankfully, it only ran unfiltered for like, 10 seconds.
yes that was good news
@@qwertykeyboard5901 sounds like a Honda... ? One I see often the filter cover hangs far off that side of the engine.
What type of pressure washer do you use to clean the mowers?
It's not a pressure washer, in actually it's a pain sprayer.
Looks like MethGyver did the initial repair.
yes I think you're right
We are going to see a lot less on the curb. Especially any classics. Well hopefully we'll see better stuff new.
Yeah I made a mulch plug that was questionable.
I've done the same but as long as it works, I won't question it too much.
Nice Video👍 I lie these repair vids. That mower is overreving btw
thank you and yes
np
you should make merch
I should shouldn't I!
I have a stihl fs87 and when I give it gas and want to mow it cuts out and when it idles the head in which the wire is turned also turns when I want to start it sometimes it cuts out please help
sure, replace the carb and the clutch
@@HomeGaragechannel okay that's not a good sing but its 20 years old so i think it's not worth it haha
I understand. It sound like you got good use out it
@@HomeGaragechannel Jup that's correct and i bought 2 new echo's so i have no worries haha 😂
what is the red bulb on the air filter cover?
Primer bulb to prime the engine that plastic part is the carburettor well apart of it anyway alot of newer mower engines use similar style carburettors
I have a toro snowthrower I think a ccr2450 I bought a new carburetor, paddles, scraper. I paid 20 for it and parts. Listed it for $150 some guy will you take $100? I don't even respond to that. I am not making a killing but they are loballing me
agreed, don't let it go for anything you're not comfortable with.
if that was a car and a guy was doina a diy fix that would get them in trouble by osha or some sort of a dangerous issues.
sure would be
Atleast cut the sponge down an maybe use a metal hose clamp on filter cover if you didn't have the money
yes my thoughts too.
never mind it a primer .😃
you got it
Pulling rope kicks back 13:54
not sure what you're asking
When I pull rope it doesn't pull out and it kicks back really hard
do a predator generator
I would if I could find one
Hey i need help with my own project, im trying to fix my old tomos lawn mower from 1990 i got it to start but when i give it gas the engine starts to stall but in idle it works fine, do mind this is a two stroke engine
that's very strange, maybe someone adjusted the throttle cable, too much and when you're moving to a faster speed, it's moving the carb to choke. Take off the cover for the filter and the filter, and confirm that the choke isn't closed when you move the lever to fast.
@@HomeGaragechannel its all manual, throttle and choke, and im not applying throttle from the cable but from the lever on the carb its self, and i cleaned the air filter, its a metal one with a mesh so i can clean it in gasoline
@@HomeGaragechannel Hey i just wanted to let you know that i have fixed my tomos lawn mower and now its working very good
First
thank you Nicolas Lab.
why cant a single person show or tell me where the oil drain plug is on this?? u think u could show it.. geez
on this model, I don't think it has one. Tip back the mower and look near the shaft. There's a spot for a plug but it's not there... geez
@@HomeGaragechannel so how do I change the oil???? u have to siphon it back out??
you have to tip the mower on it's side, but using an oil siphon works well too.
Hey bro what's up? I've MacGyver/ redneck the hell out of a lot of things and got them functional for a "temporary" time
yes temporary is the key word. thank you Ramadin Sookhoo.
@@HomeGaragechannel you're welcome bro. Sometimes my temporary fix sometimes becomes permanent for other people because of their lack of responsibilities to improve their situation.
yes I can agree with that statement