"FasTbird232" (fastbird232)
06/11/2014 at 09:13 • Filed to: None
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"FasTbird232" (fastbird232)
06/11/2014 at 09:13 • Filed to: None | 1
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Take a look at this beauty. Opponauts get a special discount.
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Yes, I aped a Clarksonism. It works.
Diesel
> FasTbird232
06/11/2014 at 09:14 |
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Kinja'd
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FasTbird232
> Diesel
06/11/2014 at 09:16 |
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Yyyyyup. Fixed
thebigbossyboss
> FasTbird232
06/11/2014 at 09:21 |
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"I can't use two mowers at once"....ha!
Also I didn't know that lawnmowers were still carbourated. I pretty much know nothing about small engines. Because idiot.
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FasTbird232
> thebigbossyboss
06/11/2014 at 09:24 |
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It's barely a carb. Has no moving parts. Basically just a siphon.
MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
> FasTbird232
06/11/2014 at 09:32 |
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hahaha silly yoopers...
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> thebigbossyboss
06/11/2014 at 09:34 |
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There's actually a new small engine Kinja blog: pullstartmyheart. I've sort of agreed to write a thing or two for it.
Also, lawn mowers are still carbureted because nothing else is really as simple or adaptable for a single cylinder. No good way to do electronic fuel injection at low cost, and mechanical displacement fuel injection won't idle and is temp-sensitive.
The one in his ad is a 4.0HP vertical shaft Briggs, which has a diaphragm (not float bowl) carburetor of a design Briggs has been making for ~50 years. It's solid, we'll leave it at that - though if you were to be a dumbass and run ethanol gas in it and leave it sitting, there's a little pre-fueling bowl in the top of the gas tank in which there's a screen that would clog with scum. Not fun.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> FasTbird232
06/11/2014 at 09:35 |
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Well, there's one semi-moving part - the diaphragm. I haven't worked on the 4HPs that often, but the 3.5s? Yeah.
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thebigbossyboss
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/11/2014 at 09:37 |
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Yeah I saw the new blog. I just didnt think I have anything to contribute. I don't own any small engines and have no knowledge about them really. Thanks for the information though, I appreciate it.
GhostZ
> FasTbird232
06/11/2014 at 10:01 |
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I would have mentioned power-to-weight ratios. 4HP on a 50 pound mower means a p/w better than an FR-S or Mustang V6.
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FasTbird232
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/11/2014 at 10:02 |
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Yup, that ended up being the problem, the diaphragm. Once I put a new one in, fired right up.
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FasTbird232
> GhostZ
06/11/2014 at 10:04 |
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Damn, you're right
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> FasTbird232
06/11/2014 at 10:11 |
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Generally, they'll get to run if not well with a bad diaphragm as long as you pre-prime them from dry with a little sniff of gas down the throat. The reason being, the little bowl in the tank has to fill, and a dead diaphragm doesn't have the stones - in my experience. The other killer is funk *in* that little bowl clogging the pickup screen.
Less prone to get funked, in my experience, but a little less obvious to un-funk than the float-bowl verticals.
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FasTbird232
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/11/2014 at 10:19 |
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Yeah, before, it would catch for a few cycles if I primed the hell out of it, then die. Didn't have to even prime after the fix.
The kit came with a new spring and filter, so that may have helped as well.
Meatcoma
> thebigbossyboss
06/11/2014 at 10:40 |
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I have 2 riders, 2 push and 2 weedeaters. Dunno why.... I can only do one thing at a time.
tromoly
> FasTbird232
06/11/2014 at 11:09 |
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I totally mis-read the title as "Troopers", hence the following video.
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thebigbossyboss
> Meatcoma
06/11/2014 at 16:15 |
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maybe they're for spares. The pushmowers and stuff I can sort of see...but how does on accidentally acquire a 2nd ride on mower? lol.