My dad was a lawnmower, car, and motorcycle mechanic for fifty years and watching you fix stuff reminds me of him. He was always partial to WheelHorse and my brother has the last one he restored. It was a LawnRanger. Keep up the great videos.
You are so correct!! And in this screwed up world today, we need men like our dads now more than ever. Instead, we've got a whole generation growing up not knowing from one day to the next, if they want to be a male, a female, or something in between. Maybe they might even want to be a toaster, a door knob, or a motor boat. Who knows.@@stevew270
Can't tell you how many times i had to fix somebody elses screw up in my 40+ yrs career. Have to start at the beginning and go down the line wire for wire. Hey Uncle buffalo you had me cracking up!! 😂😂😂😂
Another very helpful video Taryl , Dont know why they would use a red wire for a ground tho. weird ... Just another example of why we still need the folks with EXPERIENCE !
Got a call on a cub cadet that had a transmission problem. Had no get up and go when the handle was depressed. Pulled the belt cover off. Found the belt was not under the idler pulley. Home depot had worked on it. They had taken the belly pan off , and lo and behold, it was missing. No one knows where it ran off to. Total time for the repair was 10 minutes, which included taking the belt cover off. The owner was happy to pay $100.00, for the repair. He was very grateful, as he had to shovel his entire driveway by hand. ( note: he ordered a new belly pan from cub cadet.) Make sure equipment runs correctly, before taking it home from Home Depot.
Fellow Hoosier here. I really enjoy your vids. These are just great. Getting me through some tough times physically, and motivating me to finish my 1967 John Deere 60 Lawn Tractor restoration.
This reminds me when I used to work for Namco Cybertainment 35 years ago. We would send something back to home office and 3 weeks later it would come back with a tag on it with the date and time and usually it had a big NPF in red marker on it. I'd put the item back in the arcade machine and it would still not work, so I called my regional manager and said hey this NPF tech is worthless he never repairs anything. After about 5 minutes of John "regional manager" laughing he said that's not the technicians initials that stands for 'No Problem Found". From that day on John would call me NPF every time he saw me or talked to me. I love your videos have a Merry Christmas and a safe but Happy New Year.
I like that old wind-up start Tecumseh powered mower behind Uncle Andy in the beginning of the video, brings back some good memories. Another great fix, not surprised they screwed up a simple job like that though since nobody seems to know how to repair things anymore!
Hey taryl and crew good morning to nice video my friends you two looked like the Hunch Backs of Motte Dame God Bless You And your family have a Good Night
Had a similar but different problem with a 2015 sears string trimmer. A nice unit, bought cheap used at a flea market, with straight shaft, automatic enrichment and easy start. It would take a huge number of pulls and starting fluid to get it started, and then run for a short period of time, and choke out and die. After much fussing, I reversed the wire connectors on the enrichment solenoid on the carb, and it started up and ran fine. I figure somebody hooked up the enrichment wires backward.
I just sent in for some Taryl Gummies.....for that relaxing feeling after cold weather leaf pick up........boy i am hungry for some pizza and Keystone Light beers......Not that Hamms crap.!!!!!
Got a new engine exactly like this one. Been setting a few years. Have cleaned and put new fuel in. I have spark & will run off starting fluid but dies. Enjoy your show. Lots great info. Thanks
🤩🤩That is quite a dance celebration !!! 😱YES indeed, there is a great example of 😵💫 "NO COMMON SENSE" of mechanical ability knowledge of the simple operation of a gas engine safety circuit !!! 😏😏THANKS FOR THE VIDEO , BE SAFE !!!😍😍😍😍😍
nice shawl. Mad Max depends on Braveheart. It would take me two hours to reach a Home Depot. The customer did not ask to hear the engine run.❤ They went home and didn't think twice until they needed to use it.
Spark testers sound cool. I have always wanted to buy one. I never do. I just take the plug out and ground the thread, and use the plug as the spark tester.
I once knew an old timer mechanic who would lick his fingers and hold the plug wire tip while spinning the engine and he’d say ifin I feel the spark clear up to my elbow then it’s good enough.
BTDT. I have a trifuel generator that a wood rat moved into and chewed through a wire and the propane circuit wouldn't keep running. Fixed the wire and saw there were two places to reattach but couldn't remember which one I pulled it off of. Of course I reasoned the wrong one and it still wouldn't run. Hooked it up to the other tab, heard a click and it came back to life; and yes I did a dance.
D'ju see it? First thing Taryl did was isolate the coil. That's experience speaking. When I ran AAA wrecker service the first thing I did was ask the stranded customer if the transmission was in park. My boss didn't like that though because at least 1/2 the time the customer would come back to the phone and say "hey it's running now" so we didn't get paid for a service call. When I was a kid, the repair guy used to stick his finger into the gas tank and then into his mouth and say the gas was bad if there was none. We learn to use "logic" when we are faced with a failure, but we also know where to look from experience. Taryl, where'd you get that digital name tag? Pretty cool. ben/ michigan
I would guess that the recall repair was done before the machine was even sold. Then the customer bought it, and when it didn't start he took it apart to see if he could fix it. Then he called Scrapum, and they advised him that it needed a new flywheel and coil without checking the serial number. Then he brought it to Taryl to straighten everything out. That was an excellent diagnosis and fix by Taryl.
grouse stuff Taryl Fixes all mate and yep some people simply don,t know how to do a simple repair on a bit of good gear that looks good but yeah not to worry it,s actually not often as hard as some may think in many cases and it all depends i reckon and cheers from Australia 🐨🐑🦘🌴🇦🇺 or the land down under and i wish you and the crew a Merry Christmas 🌲and a Happy New Year.🎄🎅🦌
Hold the spark plug lol .... my uncle told me to never touch the spark plug when I was about 9 years old . I wanted to see why after he went home . I found why he said that real quick. 😅 zap it hurt like hell ⚡️ ⚡️ ⚡️lol
Nothing worse than a box of parts and a crystal ball diagnosis from a guy in the phone... I always add at least 2 hrs for going through the whole mower. You never know what's been jacked around with by someone unplugging and plugging everything back in. Great job Taryl👍🏻👍🏻
I run into a similar problem. I bought a new splitter from Rural King run it less than half an hour. Something made a weird noise and it died. You’d pull it over and you heard a rattling. I took it in stood there when they tore apart the coil apparently the rep didn’t get the bolts tight when They had done the recall on the Briggs & Stratton replacing the flywheel and the coil. The funny thing is it was the representative/sales person from the company that had done it, they called him in. They was trying to fix it. They put another new coil on it. The guy wasn’t even smart enough to set the air gap on the coil properly. The guy was also going to leave the cooling fan on there that had two or three blades broken off of it because that had the plastic cooling fan on it. I told my sales guy from RK that I would not accept it if he (Briggs rep )put that back together like that, Sales guy (from RK ) ended up saying something and it got replaced But the Briggs & Stratton rep was going to try to pull it off on me not realizing I know how to work on stuff and I watch stuff like that The mechanic from Rural King ended up going back behind him and fixed it so a lot of times on those recalls with that coil and flywheel from what I was told they send their sales representative out from the company, and he don’t seem to know too much lol
I had a vanguard twin that showed spark when laying the plug against the cylinder. Didn’t have enough spark to run. I learned my lesson on that one because I chased my tail for a while trying to figure out why it wouldn’t run.
A friend of mine worked on a Honda powered pressure washer, it quit running after lots of trouble shooting, he changed the spark plug and it ran fine. The old plug would fire out of the engine, but wouldn't installed. He told me, I was at a loss and bought a new plug and it fired off on the first pull. He replaced the carburetor, air filter, oil, and checked the valve adjustment.
That flywheel looks fairly rusted seeing how it's supposedly new. Thank goodness for ignorant people or you'd be out of work... A well deserved dance at the end....Uncle Andy needed the help
Had an old mechanic tell me there needs to be two things to make anything run. You must have spark and fuel. One without the other and you are dead in the water, lol. Thanks for sharing😊
Uncle Andy might not be able to get around as good as he once did, and has a painfully weak "Woooo!!!' but he sure can cut a rug!! The ladies at the nursing home LOVE that!!
I put a new coil on and the spark plug put out orange spark, changed to new spark plug and it started right up with a nice blue spark. Oh well I have a spare coil now since the old coil was probably fine. Put a new plug in first is the lesson I learned.
Hi, I would have liked to see Taryl to have checked flywheel bolt making sure it was tight, Same with coil bolts, Air gap, etc, Maybe he did off camera. When ever u get "Homeowner"( That's what i call them)doing there own work its usually a mess..
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Watching Taryl and Uncle Andy square dance was hilarious!
The "there's your dinner jig"!!
Watch it at at 2 x speed for a second laugh.😅
Get Jiggy with it😂😊
looked like the monkeys in a barrel game lol funny.
My dad was a lawnmower, car, and motorcycle mechanic for fifty years and watching you fix stuff reminds me of him. He was always partial to WheelHorse and my brother has the last one he restored. It was a LawnRanger. Keep up the great videos.
Life just isn't the same without our dads, is it, mine has been gone almost 17 years and I still think about him every day.
You are so correct!! And in this screwed up world today, we need men like our dads now more than ever. Instead, we've got a whole generation growing up not knowing from one day to the next, if they want to be a male, a female, or something in between. Maybe they might even want to be a toaster, a door knob, or a motor boat. Who knows.@@stevew270
Quick fix, short video. Still high quality entertainment and information. Taryl Fixes ALL.
I love his videos
Thanks!
Thank you!
Great detective work Taryl! Working on something after someone else has been there before can make the job a challenge.
Especially when they've lost a bolt or part in the process.
Merry Christmas guys
Carol keep up the good work
Nice, easy fix! Good thing he had all of the parts!
Really appreciate all you guys. You've taught me alot over the past 3 or 4 years. Thanks for sharing your know how with us.
Enjoy these video’s entertaining and very good information
You could fix anything bro you're a good mechanic
Good job figuring out that problem. I hate having to fix something that someone else took apart. I always charge an "idiot fee" in cases like this.
in the old briggs repair manuals- it shows how to make a spark tester with a block of wood and some screws
I can't wait till they figure out a way to test these coil on plug junk. Can't just shove the tester inline with it.
@20:14 Good catch Uncle Andy!
Eyes 👀 like a Big Old Buffalo 🦬 😅
This channel is truly the best of the best when it comes to small engine repairs. I sure we had visual access to info like this back in the 60's. 👍
Taryl, love the channel. The skits are hilarious!
Can't tell you how many times i had to fix somebody elses screw up in my 40+ yrs career. Have to start at the beginning and go down the line wire for wire. Hey Uncle buffalo you had me cracking up!! 😂😂😂😂
We love Uncle Andy.
The Taryl and Andy dance was lol city, usa.
😂 thanks!
Great video, love to see y'all having fun!!!😎👍
Working on something that someone else misassembled is always vexing. Good job.
Another very helpful video Taryl , Dont know why they would use a red wire for a ground tho. weird ... Just another example of why we still need the folks with EXPERIENCE !
Got a call on a cub cadet that had a transmission problem. Had no get up and go when the handle was depressed. Pulled the belt cover off. Found the belt was not under the idler pulley. Home depot had worked on it. They had taken the belly pan off , and lo and behold, it was missing. No one knows where it ran off to. Total time for the repair was 10 minutes, which included taking the belt cover off. The owner was happy to pay $100.00, for the repair. He was very grateful, as he had to shovel his entire driveway by hand. ( note: he ordered a new belly pan from cub cadet.) Make sure equipment runs correctly, before taking it home from Home Depot.
Fellow Hoosier here. I really enjoy your vids. These are just great. Getting me through some tough times physically, and motivating me to finish my 1967 John Deere 60 Lawn Tractor restoration.
Hope you guys had a nice Christmas I hope you got it everything you guys wanted
This reminds me when I used to work for Namco Cybertainment 35 years ago. We would send something back to home office and 3 weeks later it would come back with a tag on it with the date and time and usually it had a big NPF in red marker on it. I'd put the item back in the arcade machine and it would still not work, so I called my regional manager and said hey this NPF tech is worthless he never repairs anything. After about 5 minutes of John "regional manager" laughing he said that's not the technicians initials that stands for 'No Problem Found". From that day on John would call me NPF every time he saw me or talked to me.
I love your videos have a Merry Christmas and a safe but Happy New Year.
Hola! Hermano gracias por tus consejos eres un buen hombre y un buen maestro el mejor bendiciones feliz navidad
Was that the buffalo dance- good job .
Good job 🇺🇲
Uncle Andy!! 👊
Nice job Taryl
Happy Holidays to everyone 👍🏻
Awesome video
Hay Taryl ,,,good to see your on the ball. Cheers 🍻
Someone else's bungled repair and a bunch of parts is why it's good to be a detective in this business. Good job.
I like that old wind-up start Tecumseh powered mower behind Uncle Andy in the beginning of the video, brings back some good memories. Another great fix, not surprised they screwed up a simple job like that though since nobody seems to know how to repair things anymore!
Good call, Uncle Andy, on that breather tube !!!!!!!
Great video 📹 👍 Happy 🌲 Holiday's from Mechanicsburg, PA
Excellent information and a great video 👌👍
Thanks for the video Taryl and Andy.
Great stuff, keep it up
Hey taryl and crew good morning to nice video my friends you two looked like the Hunch Backs of Motte Dame God Bless You And your family have a Good Night
Had a similar but different problem with a 2015 sears string trimmer. A nice unit, bought cheap used at a flea market, with straight shaft, automatic enrichment and easy start. It would take a huge number of pulls and starting fluid to get it started, and then run for a short period of time, and choke out and die. After much fussing, I reversed the wire connectors on the enrichment solenoid on the carb, and it started up and ran fine. I figure somebody hooked up the enrichment wires backward.
Good job
Love your Scarf , BUT NOT SAFE !!! Remember the last wood splitter !!
Thanks I learned something new thanks to you.
Taryl, your awesome!!
Nice dance moves Buffalo Drew!
Keep up the good advice and fun
Awesome video! Keep up the good work.
That show you some of these dealers and techs don't give a hoot. I enjoy watching your videos. Thanks for the videos
I just sent in for some Taryl Gummies.....for that relaxing feeling after cold weather leaf pick up........boy i am hungry for some pizza and Keystone Light beers......Not that Hamms crap.!!!!!
Thumbs up great video, yea,I remember some of those briggs recalls, they had it where you didn't have to take the machine out of the carton,
Got a new engine exactly like this one. Been setting a few years. Have cleaned and put new fuel in. I have spark & will run off starting fluid but dies. Enjoy your show. Lots great info. Thanks
🤩🤩That is quite a dance celebration !!! 😱YES indeed, there is a great example of 😵💫 "NO COMMON SENSE" of mechanical ability knowledge of the simple operation of a gas engine safety circuit !!! 😏😏THANKS FOR THE VIDEO , BE SAFE !!!😍😍😍😍😍
Nice video you make it look simple
Taryl you are scaring me wearing that loose scarf around machinery.
Stay safe, we need you.
I busted out laughing when you guys started dancing, that was great
nice shawl. Mad Max depends on Braveheart.
It would take me two hours to reach a Home Depot. The customer did not ask to hear the engine run.❤
They went home and didn't think twice until they needed to use it.
Awesome
Good morning Taryl awesome! Quick fix! See you wearing the LED badge I gave you looks awesome!btw barn fire comes out today. Going to be good
Another good video
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Spark testers sound cool. I have always wanted to buy one. I never do. I just take the plug out and ground the thread, and use the plug as the spark tester.
I once knew an old timer mechanic who would lick his fingers and hold the plug wire tip while spinning the engine and he’d say ifin I feel the spark clear up to my elbow then it’s good enough.
another simple way is to use the ol timing light. It flashes you have spark.
You GO TARYL GOOD JOB
BTDT. I have a trifuel generator that a wood rat moved into and chewed through a wire and the propane circuit wouldn't keep running. Fixed the wire and saw there were two places to reattach but couldn't remember which one I pulled it off of. Of course I reasoned the wrong one and it still wouldn't run. Hooked it up to the other tab, heard a click and it came back to life; and yes I did a dance.
Man you guys can dance 🕺
Love your skits! Where can i get one of the digital name tags?
D'ju see it? First thing Taryl did was isolate the coil. That's experience speaking. When I ran AAA wrecker service the first thing I did was ask the stranded customer if the transmission was in park. My boss didn't like that though because at least 1/2 the time the customer would come back to the phone and say "hey it's running now" so we didn't get paid for a service call. When I was a kid, the repair guy used to stick his finger into the gas tank and then into his mouth and say the gas was bad if there was none. We learn to use "logic" when we are faced with a failure, but we also know where to look from experience. Taryl, where'd you get that digital name tag? Pretty cool. ben/ michigan
I See a Stiltch TS-400 Next to The Bench Taryl Is That Going to Be a Video Too 😀😊👍🏼
I like older equipment and older people they are reliable 😊 fantastic repair .was that a China briggs ?
I would guess that the recall repair was done before the machine was even sold. Then the customer bought it, and when it didn't start he took it apart to see if he could fix it. Then he called Scrapum, and they advised him that it needed a new flywheel and coil without checking the serial number. Then he brought it to Taryl to straighten everything out. That was an excellent diagnosis and fix by Taryl.
I agree. If what the customer said was true the other shop let it go out knowing it didn't run.
grouse stuff Taryl Fixes all mate and yep some people simply don,t know how to do a simple repair on a bit of good gear that looks good but yeah not to worry it,s actually not often as hard as some may think in many cases and it all depends i reckon and cheers from Australia 🐨🐑🦘🌴🇦🇺 or the land down under and i wish you and the crew a Merry Christmas 🌲and a Happy New Year.🎄🎅🦌
(Wiss) said this isa nother good classic teaching info vary good Thank you vary much.
"Buffalo Drew" better be on the next Grass Rats CD or I'm coming over there!!!! . . . maybe pick up some Gel Lube and a t-shirt.
Hold the spark plug lol .... my uncle told me to never touch the spark plug when I was about 9 years old . I wanted to see why after he went home . I found why he said that real quick. 😅 zap it hurt like hell ⚡️ ⚡️ ⚡️lol
Love the victory dance!
Nice job old boy.
Yer pretty sharp on both ends Taryl! I bet you kind wish all repairs were that easy.
It was Gordy's fixes all shop. Hey they said it was just the coil & flywheel. Like that victory dance!
Nothing worse than a box of parts and a crystal ball diagnosis from a guy in the phone... I always add at least 2 hrs for going through the whole mower. You never know what's been jacked around with by someone unplugging and plugging everything back in.
Great job Taryl👍🏻👍🏻
Love the channel
If you oil the foam filter it can cause oil to be sucked from the crankcase breather and fill the paper element with oil.
Freaking Hilarious 😂😮😅😊,Old Uncle Andy😂,Chippos&Poppos😅,,, Great job Taryl. Butcher repairmen only make you more valuable.❤
I run into a similar problem. I bought a new splitter from Rural King run it less than half an hour. Something made a weird noise and it died. You’d pull it over and you heard a rattling. I took it in stood there when they tore apart the coil apparently the rep didn’t get the bolts tight when They had done the recall on the Briggs & Stratton replacing the flywheel and the coil. The funny thing is it was the representative/sales person from the company that had done it, they called him in. They was trying to fix it. They put another new coil on it. The guy wasn’t even smart enough to set the air gap on the coil properly. The guy was also going to leave the cooling fan on there that had two or three blades broken off of it because that had the plastic cooling fan on it. I told my sales guy from RK that I would not accept it if he (Briggs rep )put that back together like that, Sales guy (from RK ) ended up saying something and it got replaced But the Briggs & Stratton rep was going to try to pull it off on me not realizing I know how to work on stuff and I watch stuff like that The mechanic from Rural King ended up going back behind him and fixed it so a lot of times on those recalls with that coil and flywheel from what I was told they send their sales representative out from the company, and he don’t seem to know too much lol
I had a vanguard twin that showed spark when laying the plug against the cylinder. Didn’t have enough spark to run. I learned my lesson on that one because I chased my tail for a while trying to figure out why it wouldn’t run.
A friend of mine worked on a Honda powered pressure washer, it quit running after lots of trouble shooting, he changed the spark plug and it ran fine. The old plug would fire out of the engine, but wouldn't installed. He told me, I was at a loss and bought a new plug and it fired off on the first pull. He replaced the carburetor, air filter, oil, and checked the valve adjustment.
My dad taught me years ago that if the engine has good compression it can “snuff out”the spark of a weak plug
@@modoc852
That's very true.
Yes
Sorry about the wires. Must have been in a hurry for lunch break at home depot 😂
You da man!
[warrantee] 2 + Taryl and crew = Great video! Just in time for customer as mild winter
starts to end! "What am I a weather man now?" lol
Um, just a little heads up for you. Winter doesn’t officially start until Dec 21st, fyi.
@@ericchild8845 yah, thanks eric. That's a reality check. unavoidable for us. pleasant fiction. El nino or not.
That flywheel looks fairly rusted seeing how it's supposedly new. Thank goodness for ignorant people or you'd be out of work... A well deserved dance at the end....Uncle Andy needed the help
Hey Taryl! That's what Cardiologist (Heart Doctor) said when he was checking my PaceMaker! He was going to have to get his Spark checker?
Had an old mechanic tell me there needs to be two things to make anything run. You must have spark and fuel. One without the other and you are dead in the water, lol. Thanks for sharing😊
Don't forget air and compression.
Fire it up, fire it up, fire it up
Uncle Andy might not be able to get around as good as he once did, and has a painfully weak "Woooo!!!' but he sure can cut a rug!! The ladies at the nursing home LOVE that!!
thank you for the schooling sir. more stuff that we the hairy home owner need help with.
I put a new coil on and the spark plug put out orange spark, changed to new spark plug and it started right up with a nice blue spark. Oh well I have a spare coil now since the old coil was probably fine. Put a new plug in first is the lesson I learned.
Gut vidya
Brute Splitters are sold at Menards. Menards usually has a local small engine shop do the warranty work.
I like the [ grab and hold on]..that works for sure..
Hi, I would have liked to see Taryl to have checked flywheel bolt making sure it was tight, Same with coil bolts, Air gap, etc, Maybe he did off camera. When ever u get "Homeowner"( That's what i call them)doing there own work its usually a mess..