Rebeccas journal-it ran!!!!!!

[Wannabefree]

Can I be you when I grow up?

sounds like you're doing a GREAT job. I hope you feel better soon

 

[rebecca100]

Thanks. Right now I'm wrapped in a blanket with a fever. DD had it yesterday.

 

[Wannabefree]

Thanks. Right now I'm wrapped in a blanket with a fever. DD had it yesterday.

Ugh I hate those illnesses We'll say a prayer for you to feel beter really soon hun *hugs again, then sprays Lysol everywhere*

 

[Denim Deb]

Hope you feel better soon.

I think I need to learn how to work on things myself. I have a lawn mower that I need to get running and hubby never has the time.

 

[snapshot]

I'm proud of you!!!!! It sounds like you learned a lot! I do hope you feel better soon!!!!!!

 

[rebecca100]

Okay still feel kinda crummy, but not quite as bad. I made myself get up. I fiddled with the carburetor some more trying to see how it worked and cleaned the tank up. It was really bad rusty. The whole tiller had been left out in the weather for a couple of years and not run. It had been bil's that he got for scrap I think. Anyway the tank/carb are built to go with each other and it has a reservoir that the gas is pumped into where it is picked up by the carb jet. Something like that anyway. Anyway the stinking little tank reservoir is rusted through and won't hold gas so it just leaks back into the big part. In other words it needs a new tank before I can fix it. That really stinks! We have several old motors and there is one out here that looks identical that I'll try. Now today I learned a few things about small engines. They're not as complicated as I thought, but in order to make up for that instead of using regular bolts and screws they use ones that nothing else on earth uses. Like screws with star heads instead of plain old Phillips or flat tip AND they make sure to put something so close that a pair of pliers won't get on it. Or the other one I found was if did use a Phillips or flat tip then they made sure to put 2 in easy reach and the other in an impossible to reach place and screw that one in extra tight. Also the last thing was you have to remove several parts that have nothing to do with what your doing to reach the last screw or wire or link thingy so you can take the part you are trying to get off. Then you have to remember where all that junk went back. But DD helped and we had fun. Ds had no interest in helping whatsoever.

 

[rebecca100]

:bun It ran!!!!!!!! It really ran!!!! Okay so I have about 6 old motors laying around that are locked up or missing pieces and such. I took the tank off a couple of them until I found one that was the same. It was still in pretty good shape and the hole patterns were the same so I hooked it all up and put it back together. Well honestly its kinda difficult to hook everything up so I didn't hook up the controls just in case I needed to take it all back off. Anyway I pulled and pulled and nothing happened. I tried everything I could think of and was about to take it back apart when I realized one of the wires was touching the frame which is how you kill it. I bent it around and pulled again and it started and ran!!!!!!! It took a lot of prayer and research but it's running now. Now I just have to learn how to adjust it to run better and hook up the controls and the kill switch. I feel so much smarter now. Still sick, but smarter. Lol

 

[Denim Deb]

Good for you. I think I need to learn how to do small engine repair myself.

 

[rebecca100]

I have a Haynes book, but to be honest YouTube videos helped more than anything. I'm one of those people who has to see it done. The book just confused me even more because nothing looked like the pictures and they didnt cover the details, only general stuff.

 

[Denim Deb]

Same here. I'd rather have someone show me how to do something than tell me, or give me directions for that type of thing. Other things I'm fine w/written directions.