Great score on that one easy fixes. Steves small engine saloon has a video on how to repair the wheel death wobble. I have used it more than a few times and it works great. All you need is a piece of 1/2” copper tubing and a drill bit to ream the hole to the correct width to place the small piece of copper tubing. Bonus the wheel never wears through the copper. Saves you a lot of money and one stick of tubing can fix a heck of a lot of mowers.
Henry for the wheels cut 1/2 inch copper pipe and press into center of the wheel hub. You might need to bore the hole a little bigger to fit outer diameter of the pipe but the inside of the 1/2 inch pipe will go over the wheel post and take up the slop. I have done this serval times on damaged wheels.
The copper tube is a more permanent solution since it's actually a sleeve. It wobbles again after a while when adding just a washer (temporary solution).
I sold my identical one for $50 and I’m surprised I got that for it. It seems the Murray and Weed Eater brand names are sales poison, nobody will touch ‘em around here. Now you take the exact same mower with a Craftsman logo on it and it’ll sell in under an hour.
All that matters with a blade is if the tip of both ends are perfectly 90°, remember only the first 1/4" of the blade cuts the grass, the rest of the blade is for mulching up the already cut grass into smaller and smaller pieces.
I got a customer's mower in yesterday, he needed it back ASAP, so, checked the oil, had none, it is one of those new Kohler x675 engines, I went through it, fixed all the regular stuff, new carb, new spark plug, but turned out to be a broken intake push rod, had another Kohler x675 laying around, replaced the intake push rod, did the valve lash on both intake and exhaust, and added oil, changed the air filter, and all that damage was from just one year of abuse, also had to scrape the underside of the deck, but I saved his butt, it was his girlfriend's mower, lmao. She bought it from me last year.
Great score on that one easy fixes. Steves small engine saloon has a video on how to repair the wheel death wobble. I have used it more than a few times and it works great. All you need is a piece of 1/2” copper tubing and a drill bit to ream the hole to the correct width to place the small piece of copper tubing. Bonus the wheel never wears through the copper. Saves you a lot of money and one stick of tubing can fix a heck of a lot of mowers.
Yeah I know about the copper pipe truck, copper is expensive. A washer isn’t.
Henry for the wheels cut 1/2 inch copper pipe and press into center of the wheel hub.
You might need to bore the hole a little bigger to fit outer diameter of the pipe but the inside of the 1/2 inch pipe will go over the wheel post and take up the slop.
I have done this serval times on damaged wheels.
Yeah I know about the copper pipe truck, copper is expensive. A washer isn’t.
The copper tube is a more permanent solution since it's actually a sleeve. It wobbles again after a while when adding just a washer (temporary solution).
@@davie66fly well, im not keeping the mower
Hi Henry, great deal on that mower, when I put a new filter in , I put the date on it
Good to know
I sold my identical one for $50 and I’m surprised I got that for it. It seems the Murray and Weed Eater brand names are sales poison, nobody will touch ‘em around here. Now you take the exact same mower with a Craftsman logo on it and it’ll sell in under an hour.
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Great video 📹 once again Henry. I wish I would get that lucky with easy fixes....
Thanks 👍
All that matters with a blade is if the tip of both ends are perfectly 90°, remember only the first 1/4" of the blade cuts the grass, the rest of the blade is for mulching up the already cut grass into smaller and smaller pieces.
Touch up the deck with some of the quick color Henry👍
that air filter looks like it came out of a neglected chain saw
I got a customer's mower in yesterday, he needed it back ASAP, so, checked the oil, had none, it is one of those new Kohler x675 engines, I went through it, fixed all the regular stuff, new carb, new spark plug, but turned out to be a broken intake push rod, had another Kohler x675 laying around, replaced the intake push rod, did the valve lash on both intake and exhaust, and added oil, changed the air filter, and all that damage was from just one year of abuse, also had to scrape the underside of the deck, but I saved his butt, it was his girlfriend's mower, lmao. She bought it from me last year.
Why didn’t you just replace the engine with the one you used the valve from? Would have saved a lot of work! You did all that for free?
@@MowersNBlowers the Kohler I took the stuff off of was from a pressure washer, and had a very short shaft, and no not for free, 70 dollars.
Good evening Henry
Always love the oil feeding sounds LMFAO
Aaaahhhhhhhhhh, eeeeeeeeehhhhh
Another nice score there Henry!
Oh yeah!
Scorz !
I’ll give ya 50.00 bucks max😊