Well done! Love the young ladies in your video with their comments too. I have had the same generator for years but mine is used only for emergencies and otherwise it is kept inside. It has had a nice life.
Thank you. Yep only the pretty girls on this channel. The most beautiful of all is my lovely Mrs T, she is my whole world. Thanks for watching and commenting my friend.
I'm glad for another video. When you see such a nice compact power plant in a store, it looks amazing, but it's obviously very impractical for service. It is not better if the engine with the generator is only in a tubular frame.
If it is stored well, not run next to a cement mixer while it is sat on the sand pile.....it will work for years. One commenter on another vid stated 17k hours 24/7 at his cabin in Alaska.. he replaced the timing belt as PM... and ran another 17k hours before he gave it to a friend (gen still running like a Swiss watch) with the friend trying for 35k hours on the rubber timing belt! The rope pull will ALWAYS require replacement because it chafes while the engine is running, the cord length between the handle on the outside of the case and the grommet of the actual recoil mechanism on the engine whipping around when the engine is running at 3600rpm..
Have a Honda 2000 just like that one! It's been a great / flawless little quiet generator. Kept my furnace on in the coldest of January's in the North (Michigan) thru power outages. She's a gem!
Generators are notorious for having water in the gas due to poor maintenance on the owners' part. When we start our repairs on all generators ,the first step is to remove all fuel.Even if the owner states they just put fresh gas in the unit. This has saved the customer and us countless labor costs
Yes, you are correct. I didn't do that because this is a regular customer and believed him. Hmmm maybe he somehow got some water in his gas can. Who knows. Great comment my friend. Thank you.
I have two generators. One is the Honda just like that one there. The other I have a 12 KW that one is still my work in progress.. I also have another work in progress I have a billy goat vacuum that at present has no carburetor on it bought it like that. So that's another work I got in progress
I have a Powermate 5000 that is at least 25 years old. Good maintenance and runs like a top. I’m in the Northeast so you know it has carried us through a few power outages. 👍
That sound of a part dropping was a shim for the left carb bolt to keep the carb secure and the plastic air box from crushing. I hoped you'd find it on your 2nd assembly, but it's still not installed.
I have replaced the rope on 2.1 many times. If you use theses daily the rope always frays. Also have had to use high pressure air to blow out carb needle and always works to get generator working again.
Had one with very similar setup for carb and pull rope. Just told they couldn't get it started, drained fuel, removed carb completely, sonic cleaned and reinstalled. Still no start, all apart again, checked lines and double checked carb, nothing from pump, replaced fuel pump, still no joy, break it completely apart for a more thorough inspection and find someone else had been in there and had hooked fuel pump wrong, reinstalled lines properly and finally all good. Lesson learned.
You could experiment with a starting fluid sprayed into the carb air intake tube and pulling the cord just once... the spray will make the engine run fast enough and long enough to give the vacuum fuel pump enough pulses to near instantly fill the carb bowl and away the engine goes..... Might even like to experiment with a drilled hole in the intake tube where a plastic straw as used in a spray lube can...is fitted directing the spray into the carb throat.. the straw being long enough to extend outside the plastic outer case and fitted with a removeable/replaceable cap. Turn fuel on, uncap straw, one squirt of start spray, recap straw, pull cord once...engine runs....
Yep it's never just a simple (fill in the blank). I've done the spark plug thing way too many times, it happens. She's running good now brother, nice work. Hey Mrs T 👋
The length of rope between the handle and the actual grommet around the hole in the recoil mechanism "swings in the wind" with the vibration of the running machine and chafes the rope... At least the first time you see the chafing getting bad just pull out the cord and pull it further through the handle until past the chafe.... and chop off that now "extra" length....without having to do what you just did. But it will chafe again...and the second time you will need to do the full replacement procedure.
The minute you said you’d never done this before I knew you were in for a long struggle. Those generators are the most compact, quiet and dependable you can get, but there’s a serious tradeoff for small and quiet, including initial cost and expensive OEM parts. Even for people who have worked on them, they are definitely time consuming. All that said, I’d still rather have one of these than about anything else on the market.
Turned out to be a bigger job T-Bone, well done solving it 👍, I got given a wolf 950 inverter, the lad says its a bit stubborn to start, stubborn is not the word still not been able to get it going 🤬
The starter rope will chafe to failure again... because the length of rope exposed and "swinging in the wind" between the actual starter on the engine and the handle through the case.... vibrates like crazy when then engine is running. Therefore all the while the cord gets more and more frazzled......chafing on the guide around the hole in the recoil starter.
Hey T-bone, I watch you all the time and I have a question for you. This is Jim‘s fix at Shop up in Michigan. I’m working on a 17 horse Briggs & Stratton engine model number 31F777. The type number. Is 0115E1. I am about..003 out of spec on endplay for the crankshaft I am looking for a gasket that is .010 thick instead of the standard .015 gasket, even if I can find a sheet to cut my own would help. Jim
If you have drained the gas tank and the carb after every use before you store the machine for a long time.....then pulling on the starter cord for 20 times will pulse the vacuum pump enough to suck the fuel out of the tank and push the fuel into the carb bowl. You might like to experiment with turning the fuel on and walking away for 30 minutes....just to see if time will allow gravity to push fuel through into the carb without multiple pulls being necessary. These should always start within 2 pulls if fuel has been left in the bowl and it's only been a week or so since it last ran...... but leaving fuel in it is just not recommended...as a week turns into a month turns into a year = corn juice disaster in the carb.
Hello T-Bone do me a favor stop calling lawn mowers names like puppy beast and please stop calling bad boy I hate that it's on lawn mower not a puppet or a thing okay please let me know when you get this message all right and by the way you're a good mechanic and honest signing off your Raymond
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Excellent job T Bone … man oh man … YOU DA MAN!!!😎👍👍👍🇨🇦
Always very enjoyable to watch this video and we all went through the trials & tribulations on getting this one resolved! Keep them coming!
thank you again for another video sir
Well done! Love the young ladies in your video with their comments too. I have had the same generator for years but mine is used only for emergencies and otherwise it is kept inside. It has had a nice life.
Thank you. Yep only the pretty girls on this channel. The most beautiful of all is my lovely Mrs T, she is my whole world. Thanks for watching and commenting my friend.
Thanks for all you do
This was a good video Tbone, thanks I enjoyed it
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Pure patience on display. It takes a truthful individual to admit oversights. Congratulations.
T-Bone, first time here and certainly there will be many more. You firmly earned my
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Now in ID for the winter
Man that was a good work... thank you man! Two thumbs up
I'm glad for another video. When you see such a nice compact power plant in a store, it looks amazing, but it's obviously very impractical for service. It is not better if the engine with the generator is only in a tubular frame.
If it is stored well, not run next to a cement mixer while it is sat on the sand pile.....it will work for years.
One commenter on another vid stated 17k hours 24/7 at his cabin in Alaska..
he replaced the timing belt as PM...
and ran another 17k hours before he gave it to a friend (gen still running like a Swiss watch)
with the friend trying for 35k hours on the rubber timing belt!
The rope pull will ALWAYS require replacement because it chafes while the engine is running, the cord length between the handle on the outside of the case and the grommet of the actual recoil mechanism on the engine whipping around when the engine is running at 3600rpm..
Have a Honda 2000 just like that one! It's been a great / flawless little quiet generator. Kept my furnace on in the coldest of January's in the North (Michigan) thru power outages. She's a gem!
Generators are notorious for having water in the gas due to poor maintenance on the owners' part.
When we start our repairs on all generators ,the first step is to remove all fuel.Even if the owner states they just put fresh gas in the unit.
This has saved the customer and us countless labor costs
Yes, you are correct. I didn't do that because this is a regular customer and believed him. Hmmm maybe he somehow got some water in his gas can. Who knows. Great comment my friend. Thank you.
I have two generators. One is the Honda just like that one there. The other I have a 12 KW that one is still my work in progress.. I also have another work in progress I have a billy goat vacuum that at present has no carburetor on it bought it like that. So that's another work I got in progress
The design engineers really really kept repair accessability in mind when they designed this machine. Yeah, right!
Did mine not long ago. Almost as much fun as a mini mac fuel line. Great video.
I have a Champion 4000 watt standard generator. 12 years old, no issues!
nice work t bone
That was a job there tbone but you did great buddie 👍🏾
Great video t bone. You just gained another sub.
You're the Champ! T-bone. Great Video!
I appreciate that!
Learn to love it
Take the bottom 10 mm bolt out on the bottom of the side cover
i almost spit my drink when you said, "No wonder they broke the dern rope." hahaha
I have a 1976 Kohler..
She runs like a scared jack rabbit...
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I have a Powermate 5000 that is at least 25 years old. Good maintenance and runs like a top. I’m in the Northeast so you know it has carried us through a few power outages. 👍
Thanks for sharing
Love the song
Great job T-Bone
Thank you
That sound of a part dropping was a shim for the left carb bolt to keep the carb secure and the plastic air box from crushing. I hoped you'd find it on your 2nd assembly, but it's still not installed.
I have replaced the rope on 2.1 many times. If you use theses daily the rope always frays. Also have had to use high pressure air to blow out carb needle and always works to get generator working again.
You are a relentless troubleshooter T-bone! Love the video. Love the song too, who wrote it?
Thank you. I wrote both songs on an app called Suno.
@@RaleysSmallEngines OMG, you are one talented individual! Nice job T.
Had one with very similar setup for carb and pull rope. Just told they couldn't get it started, drained fuel, removed carb completely, sonic cleaned and reinstalled. Still no start, all apart again, checked lines and double checked carb, nothing from pump, replaced fuel pump, still no joy, break it completely apart for a more thorough inspection and find someone else had been in there and had hooked fuel pump wrong, reinstalled lines properly and finally all good. Lesson learned.
Awesome, glad you figured it out. It's always hard going behind someone else. Ain't no telling what they did. LOL Thanks for sharing my friend.
A real, true to life video of what a pain those little generators are to work on!! Good job, T Bone.
Yes they are sometimes. Thank you
👍👍👍. Thank you
Welcome 👍
Hopefully y’all made out good with the hurricane this season has been crazy.
Yes, we made it thru safe. Hope ya'll did also.
You could experiment with a starting fluid sprayed into the carb air intake tube and pulling the cord just once...
the spray will make the engine run fast enough and long enough to give the vacuum fuel pump enough pulses to near instantly fill the carb bowl and away the engine goes.....
Might even like to experiment with a drilled hole in the intake tube where a plastic straw as used in a spray lube can...is fitted directing the spray into the carb throat..
the straw being long enough to extend outside the plastic outer case and fitted with a removeable/replaceable cap.
Turn fuel on, uncap straw, one squirt of start spray, recap straw, pull cord once...engine runs....
Yep it's never just a simple (fill in the blank).
I've done the spark plug thing way too many times, it happens.
She's running good now brother, nice work.
Hey Mrs T 👋
Thanks big John
Anytime brother 🙂
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@@Mrs.T-bone 🙂🙂🙂
Honda inverter generator pull rope issues on this inverter generator that is so fun to take apart 😮
Lol, yes, loads of fun.
@@RaleysSmallEngines you got that right about that
The length of rope between the handle and the actual grommet around the hole in the recoil mechanism "swings in the wind" with the vibration of the running machine and chafes the rope...
At least the first time you see the chafing getting bad just pull out the cord and pull it further through the handle until past the chafe....
and chop off that now "extra" length....without having to do what you just did.
But it will chafe again...and the second time you will need to do the full replacement procedure.
Good work
Thank you so much 😀
The minute you said you’d never done this before I knew you were in for a long struggle. Those generators are the most compact, quiet and dependable you can get, but there’s a serious tradeoff for small and quiet, including initial cost and expensive OEM parts.
Even for people who have worked on them, they are definitely time consuming.
All that said, I’d still rather have one of these than about anything else on the market.
Yes sir. Not difficult, but time consuming. They are good machines.
hi my name is Cody oh ok how are you doing tonight ❤
Turned out to be a bigger job T-Bone, well done solving it 👍, I got given a wolf 950 inverter, the lad says its a bit stubborn to start, stubborn is not the word still not been able to get it going 🤬
Good luck with it Nev
@@Big_Johns its been under the workbench John, till i can find some information on it 🤔
Ah ok, hope you do bud. 👍🏼
Get that thing out and start tinkering on it, I have faith in you that with patience you will get it going again.
@@RaleysSmallEngines I would T-Bone, but i think the fiddle fairies have been in before
Hey, T-bone & Mrs. T. Did you all have any loses from Helene 🌀 or Milton🌀??🌊
We got thru it just fine, of course lost power and had some limbs down. Hope ya'll did ok also.
Like your stuff
Thank you
Hi this is my first time commenting i was wondering if there was a way that i could lisen to your song i love it.
Thanks for watching and commenting. I'm thinking of making a few music videos from our songs. Currently they are in just a few of my recent videos.
Have you ever worked on a opposed twin Briggs
You guys should do a group chat dony boy mower medic Taryl and of course Steve
The starter rope will chafe to failure again...
because the length of rope exposed and "swinging in the wind" between the actual starter on the engine and the handle through the case....
vibrates like crazy when then engine is running.
Therefore all the while the cord gets more and more frazzled......chafing on the guide around the hole in the recoil starter.
did it make power??? :
Yes it did, sorry I didn't show that on the video
@@RaleysSmallEngines I figgered as much ;
Main Jet & the other is pilot jet
love you song
Thank you
Hey T-bone, I watch you all the time and I have a question for you. This is Jim‘s fix at Shop up in Michigan. I’m working on a 17 horse Briggs & Stratton engine model number 31F777. The type number. Is 0115E1. I am about..003 out of spec on endplay for the crankshaft I am looking for a gasket that is .010 thick instead of the standard .015 gasket, even if I can find a sheet to cut my own would help. Jim
If you have drained the gas tank and the carb after every use before you store the machine for a long time.....then pulling on the starter cord for 20 times will pulse the vacuum pump enough to suck the fuel out of the tank and push the fuel into the carb bowl.
You might like to experiment with turning the fuel on and walking away for 30 minutes....just to see if time will allow gravity to push fuel through into the carb without multiple pulls being necessary.
These should always start within 2 pulls if fuel has been left in the bowl and it's only been a week or so since it last ran......
but leaving fuel in it is just not recommended...as a week turns into a month turns into a year = corn juice disaster in the carb.
Gee, where did the owner store this generator? In a salt mine? And then they wonder why it doesn't work any more!
Ga dang i hate working on these style generators. Everything is hidden inside.
And this is why I never touch Honda generators, I’m sure teacher who taught these engineers was Satan himself 😅
😂Gotta love honest comments. Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment my friend.
Those things must have been made for smaller hands.
Definitely
Hello T-Bone do me a favor stop calling lawn mowers names like puppy beast and please stop calling bad boy I hate that it's on lawn mower not a puppet or a thing okay please let me know when you get this message all right and by the way you're a good mechanic and honest signing off your Raymond
Only Tesla drivers carry those little Honda generator and put ethanol fuel in the tank
👍
😂😄
Reminds me when I left the gas cap off my JD Z turn and it rained.... Doh!
@@matteberry58 dang it
That generator was obviously used by a contractor, judging by its outside appearance.