Troubleshooting a Small Gas Engine!
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2019
- Most small gas engines that worked the last time you used it have one problem. A plugged up carburetor. Here I show how to confirm and repair that problem.
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Watched this video yesterday as my snow blower was Erving and dying. A minute in you said what my late father always said! Compression, fuel, and ignition (spark). I realized that my previous attempt did not include a true carb cleaning. Took the 15 minutes today to clean and it then fired up. Wanted to give thanks where due!
A ten minute video that I'm walking away from with all the confidence AND info I need to fix my weed whacker?? I must be dreaming! Great job, thanks a lot Wildman
Did you say 20 DOLLARS A GALLON 🤯. Haha sucker better stay running forever lol. Thank you for the video!
Great job Marsh , you fixed it with very little cost and now you have a good pressure washer
Thank you for the information you made small engines less scary to work on!
Nice to see all these great teachers are bringin it Home!
Terrific video. You really broke it down to make it easy to understand.
The silver screw bracket by the air filter is for a cable that would go up to the handlebars for the throttle.
Love this! My Cushman won't start after winter storage and I KNOW this is the reason! Thanks for a great video!
New sub! Thanks for sharing.
Good to know this my dad has a few things that are small engines and dont run at all. Might take a peak now
with today's gas, the carb is usually what is wrong,, that screw hole you mentioned is for in case you have something that has a throttle cable that is where it attaches.
Yeah! Free stuff! It's great to be able to fix things.
On spark: my Stihl 032 chain saw would start, run for a while, and then quit. Wouldn't start. Wait a half hour. Start, run, quit.
It took me a while to find that the capacitor in the ignition was failing when it heated up. I found out by measuring its DC resistance cold (about 20 megohms), heating it in the kitchen oven to about 150 Fahrenheit, and measuring about 30 ohms. Mr. Stihl ought to have installed a 39-cent capacitor instead of the 19-cent one. (A replacement cap is about $37. Ain't gonna happen.)
Working like a champ 💪
Great repair and real cheap. My pressure washer gives dire warnings about starting the engine with the pump dry. Looks like it did not hurt yours.
Lucky I never saw the instructions.
Thanks for not making the video longer than needs be
Thank you, I’ve been fight my merry tiller for two days new plug had my ignition check it was good new pitcock new tank, new air filter, put all back used carb spray to start but stop running, I know now, thank I have two out three working, thank you again
Great video, Brother. Thank you.
Great right to the point love it
Hello, thank you for your reply. It does get hot but runs okay. I squeeze the handle and the problem is fixed
thank you for this video. im using this info for a craftsman tiller and a backpack blower that were thrown away too. hopefully I can apply your info to these things.
Way to make work for yourself, buddy!
Thanks! Well done.
(That thermometer on your wall reads 95. Yeesh.)
If you don't like heat, this is the wrong town to visit. Luckily, I do.
Nice fix Marsh......just a FYI.....we got the moss off of our bricks just fine, but after the second time, cracks and crumbling developed on some bricks. Maybe we used it too close ?
So good thank you
Great video! Helped me crank a Honda F200 tiller my grandma bought for $40 bucks! wasnt cranking at all. I sprayed some gas into the carburator opening and cranked it and it turned on for about 10 seconds and turned off. One of the valves on the carburator isnt turning and is really stuck so im guessing the air to gas ratio might be off. I think it just needs a new carb altogether.
Thank you! Quick trip to the auto parts store for a can of starter fluid and my pressure washer fired right up and ran all day without issue. Too easy.
thanks for the info, helps alot
Thanks, great video. I have a self-propelled 6.75 Briggs & Stratton weed eater with electric start. It had sat for a year without using it, and it wouldn't start. I took it down the street to a small engine shop. After 4 months not hearing from him, I finally caught him there one morning. We looked around and found it in his pile of stuff. So he worked on it. I went to pick it up and he had taken out the battery and cables and the wires were everywhere, but it started. He said he would charge the battery and bring it to me and put it on. Never happened. Now it sits again and won't start. I can't find the right battery for it, either, and the guts where the key goes have fallen out. I think there may be something else missing, like the electric crank thing but I'm not sure. There's just some wires hanging that don't seem to have a place to plug into. I paid him $100 already. I'll see if there's a video of a starter on a small engine somewhere.
Sounds to me like he sccavenged parts from your mower to fix someone elses.
New sub here! Good, simple video although you didn’t show a close up of wear exactly you were spraying the starter fluid. Btw you must watch some book review videos given your use of the term “down in the doobly doo”
Great video - easy to follow. Thanks. I bought a non-working pressure washer almost identical to yours from a neighbor for $20. Now with your help I'm pretty sure I'll be able to get mine going in less than an hour.
I was warned that running it without was wasn’t good.
I was warned that running it without water would damage the pump so be careful
@@WildmanTech I followed all your instructions, but I couldn't get it going. The float bowl was completely dry, so I don't know what was going on with it. Anyway, I ended up buying a whole new carburetor on Amazon for $12.99. Bolted it on and it started right up! Still love your video. It gave me the confidence I needed to do the replacement.
You're the man!
Hi. Thanks for this nice informative video. I have another problem. I Have a push lawn mover with Honda GCV160 engine. The mower has proper amount of oil in it which is two seasons old and not dark so seams ok. I left the mower over winter with premium gas (half tank) in it. Darn, I should have properly winterized it and emptied the tank.
Now I can't pull the string. Nothing is stuck with the blade. I can rotate the blade with hand but it's not rotating easily. But that's I think is normal. If I pull the string so hard, I may be able to pull just a little bit and then it gets stuck. It has a little bit of resistance. I removed the spark plug and then I could pull the rope with no problem. The spark plug seems normal with no sign of oil or any other dirt on it. I read somewhere to add a little bit of penetrating oil and I added a bit of WD40 into the spark plug hole. Let it sit overnight. I tried again in the morning and it's the same thing. I also readjusted the valve clearance but still exactly the same. The valves were too tight compared to the Honda manual. What could be the problem? Could it be because I left it over winter for 7 or 8 months? The problem seems to be that the engine can't release the pressure, or intake valve doesn't open maybe.
Way’d it go man!
Ty I’m going to try to fix my mini bike
Awesome vid mate just subscribed to your channel looking forward to seeing more..cheers
Thank you it worked.
its like an even older 8-bit guy
this seems to be my problem. let you know if this fixes it. thanks
I never know how to get rid of crappy gas. I've been letting it just evaporate for a year in an old can
I use it to light fires in the fire pit.
I have a pressure washer that hesitates to turn after shutting down, it turn over freely a day later or so . I was wondering if you could comment and give a little advise as to what to do.thank you . Great video. Will be stopping to pickup ever small engine I can find.
Sounds like it's getting hot
I’m working on a Briggs engine that coincidentally on a pressure washer. I’ve got compression and spark plus it has a new air filter. It’s not starting unless I add flammable spray in the directly into the carburetor and then it runs very rough. It’s a Pulse Jet plastic carb.with a primer bulb. What do you suggest for my next step?
Clean the carburetor as I did in this video. May as well clean and gap the spark plug just for good measure.
hello sir i have a suburu 6.0 hp engine and its getting water in the gas any help.
What was the can of "fuel" you initially sprayed into the air intake when diagnosing?
Engine starting fluid. Typically ether.
hi I have a kolhar courage 18 engine off of a troy built bronco rider mower, the engine will start and run if I put gas straight into the carburetor but it burns that little bit of gas and quits, but with the carburetor on there it will not start at all, so what could be stopping the gas from going through the carburetor ? thanks for any help
Solving that exact problem is the entire point of this video and over 50% of it is devoted to the solution. Did you watch the video?
thank you very much! But after watching you blow a brick of a chimney with that brand new pressure washer. I will stick to the walkway. Thank you
That mortar is 80 years old. It really needs to be re-grouted.
@@WildmanTech sure thing. Cleaned the carb. My rigid pressure washer engine still shuts off when it is running and I release the trigger on the wand.
@@eastboundtrucking There's a valve that allows water pressure to escape when the wand handle is released. If that pressure release is not working, it would stop the motor. Eventually it will probably blow a seal somewhere.
@@WildmanTech Thank you very much for your input. I have cleaned every part of this pressure washer in hopes of cleaning my walk way after it was given to me because they bought a new one.
@@eastboundtrucking Look for an aluminum casting with a bunch of tube going into it. Tak it apart and you will most likely find a corroded piston or two. Clean those .