TILTING your lawnmower to the CORRECT side (and the reason why)
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2019
- If you have to tilt your lawnmower to the side, there is a preferred side to tilt it. If you tilt it the wrong way, you’ll put boiling gas into the carburetor. Basically you could flood your carburetor and have trouble starting it. If you tilt your lawnmower with the carburetor to the sky, this is correct. In the video I show a side-by-side comparison on what happens if you do it correctly and what could happen if you do it incorrectly. You’ll see a lot more white smoke burning off when you do it wrong. If you put the lawnmower down incorrectly just let it sit about 20 minutes, and let the gas and oil drain out of the carburetor. Of course it’s easier to tilt it onto the correct side. MAKE SURE YOU DISCONNECT THE SPARK PLUG if you are going to be working on the blade. This way the engine can't start if you move the blade.
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great now i have to figure out what is the carbo-rater
How has nobody ever told me to disconnect the spark plug before moving the blade before?? I be spinning that thing when I clean it😂😬
Thank you, that was a great video.
Thank you so much. I've been wrong before and I don't want to be unclear about this simple problem. Cheers.
Thank you so much
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Thank you for sharing
Any ideas on how to sharpen the blade?
Check manual too, I followed these instructions (well before watching this). And got enough oil in places to have it not start. Manual said tip forward
So should the gas tank be on the bottom or the oil tank??? Is this ok to do if u have gas in the mower still????
Is there a carb issue with a mower my in law found in the alley that I try to start but it only starts when tilted carb up. It’ll stay on as long as it’s tilted but shuts off a few seconds after setting it down on its wheels.
Thank you
Hi lawnmower turned on it’s wrong side and oil wrecked the air filter and now won’t start. Someone suggested pouring fuel down the exhaust to clear it. Is this right?
Run it our of gas. Pull spark plug wire. Drain oil. Tip on side carb up?
1:22 sounded like a jar breaking in a Zelda game lol
Can I run the motor side ways ?
Thank you ... your video is short and direct to the point with good comparisons!
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My thoughts entirely and exactly what I needed.
at the end the "the pic on the left/right" is covered up by thumbnails for other videos and stuff. youtube used to have "turn of annotations" in the settings but it seems to have gone away and now i don't know how to turn that stuff off to see the actual video
Thanks for that tip..... I did that wrong and it caused problems for me.
will it still run on its side?
I cleaned mine out, and I guess I flipped it to the wrong side, now the thing barely runs. I tipped on its side for a while like you said, with the carburetor up, let it sit for 10 minutes, but the thing still won’t start at all, now. I guess I have to take the whole carburetor apart and clean it.
If they designed a better deck that didn’t clog with grass so badly, this would never have happened. I think they designed them that way, so grass gets clogged under there and the moisture causes the deck to rust out. Then you have to go buy another lawnmower. Snapper makes much better lawnmowers. I got this POS for $150, from a neighbor who was moving. Honda is THE WORST lawnmower I ever owned, hands-down. Even before this happened, it was my opinion that this Honda lawnmower is a complete piece of trash.
Possible a plastic / composite chassis = no rust problems. Surely somebody makes one?
😂 grass blades have water in them, when you cut grass the grass STICKS to the surface and eventually just builds up more and more if you don’t clean it once or twice every season. This is just part of owning a lawnmower. Also, you need to either sharpen or buy new blades every 10-20hours of operation because they dull and tear the grass instead of cutting it, so you have to tip the mower EITHER WAY or do what I do, I lift up from the front and prop it up on a cinder block.
Okay, I turned my lawnmower to the side to rinse it, now it doesn't want to start. The petrol thingy is in the middle of the mower, maybe it's just the petrol that leaked? I hope I didn't break it, my hubby will not be happy with me.
But can I start the engine when it's sideways? My lawnmowers base broke and I want to make a homemade gokart...
I want to take a lawn mower engine and tilt it over to make a horizontal drive for a go kart. Will it run on its side, if it's sitting on the correct side?
I wanted to do that since I was a kid. Unfortunately the way the engine is set up the oil is oriented using gravity. When you tilt it onto the side that oil does not spill out of the engine. But the oil cannot be distributed properly on its side. I haven’t looked it up for a while but you can see what options people of used on a go cart configuration. Sounds like a fun project though
I tilted the wrong side two week ago, i can use the mower yestereday but after 30 min of mowing the white smoke came out and there was a lot of liquid leak to the air filter and dripping, will that damange my lawn mower?
Keep check on oil level, as long as it still runs it should clear up soon without hurting anything
I screwed up. I changed blade but tilted the lawn mower with the air filter down. Oil leaked out the air filter. No gas and oil in lawn mower,. How do I get oil out of the piston cylinder before I add new oil and gas to start it?
Typically I turn the lawnmower back on it for wheels, pull the spark plug out and clean it. Without cleaning the spark plug I really struggle to get it running again. If oil poured out, I usually make sure that they oil is topped off with a dipstick. Hope this answers your question👍
Not true for all engines. My Brigs Stratton with the foam air filter needs to be flipped carb side down.
Tilt your lawnmower on it's back for cleaning and servicing the blade and you won't have any problems with petrol or oil leakage. And yes absolutely disconnect the spark plug before doing anything with the blade.
Hey, why do you have the green water hose quick connect on your mower?
That’s an interesting feature, I don’t use it very much. You hook a garden hose up to the lawnmower while it’s running and it cleans all the grass off the bottom of the mower. It came standard with this mower.
@@livefree6878 I have almost the exact same model, I wonder if I have that attachment o_O Never noticed.
I got a question because I'm a 19 year old idiot and I left my neighbors lawn mower upside down for like 20 minutes trying to unclog the blade. The blade was getting stuck because my yard hasn't been cut for like two weeks and its long. So when I flipped it back over the air filter was drenched with gasoline. Please help. I'm looking for a friend.
I’ve definitely turned a lawnmower over to clean it up and had the same gassy mess. Once you flip it back over so it’s back on its wheels let it sit for about a half hour then check the Oil level. There’s usually a dipstick. If the oil is low then at a little 30 weight oil. It can be any kind of 30 weight oil 5W 30,10 W 30 or they sell just plain 30 weight oil for lawnmowers. Once all the fluids drain back in the lawnmower should start just like normal. For safety anytime you turn a mower over do you want a spark plug disconnected it’s worth your time. Just like the old style airplanes in the movies where they spin the blade The lawnmower can be started just by spinning the blade. I hope this answer your question
I skipped to whatever part showed it on its side and I flipped it on the wrong side cause of you looool
I flipped my go kart upside down while drifting and oil was leaking out of the air filter now it only runs for about 5 seconds 😂
What thay green knob for?
It's a fitting that screws onto the end of a garden hose. You run the mower with the water running, and it's supposed to help clean the underside of the mower.
Thank you. Everyone else made it so complicated. This was 123.
I always tilt my mower with the handle down.
Now you tell me
So now that I know I tipped my lawn mower over to the wrong side, how do I get my lawn mower to work again?
If you tip the lawnmower and it’s four wheels again upright, the oil drains back to where it needs to be. Let it sit for half an hour or an hour, it should start up
Thanks
I dont own a lawnmower though
Show me how to buy one
I’ve had the best luck with a lawnmower with a Honda engine on it, it doesn’t have to be the most expensive lawn more, but the Honda engine has given me the least problems.
@@livefree6878 I've never owned a lawn mower with a Honda engine on it, however, others are writing in saying that Honda engines are total, complete junk. They are saying that they are hard to restart again and other comments. Your thoughts? I have always had Briggs & Stratton engines, they are a pretty darn good, reliable engine to. Again, Your thoughts?
Or you can just set it on a table and tilt it up , That's how I do it
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Wrong - Push down on the handles and lift the front end - put a jack stand under it and you'll have none of the gas /oil leaks.
Worked great until the motor locked up
So which fuckin side?
Don't tip your lawn mower on its side that is stupid always tip it back put back handle to the ground
And you did not tell us why you turn it on the side? Was it because you want to start it or what? Nobody gives rats ass about smokes