[AT] Lawn mower carburetors are a piece of cake..... Wrong

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For those small engines like string trimmers and chainsaws, I will only use REC90 gas. It is 90 octane , NO alcohol fuel and it has pretty much eliminated starting problems with these tools. It is about a dollar a gallon more than the garbage regular gas available today but well worth it. Mark GreerSent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
-------- Original message --------From: Ken Knierim <ken.knierim at gmail.com> Date: 6/8/21  5:55 PM  (GMT-05:00) To: Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com> Subject: Re: [AT] Lawn mower carburetors are a piece of cake..... Wrong Cecil,    I've had marginally good luck finding Shindaiwa parts on Amazon. String trimmers will drive you to insanity though; always been that way. Back when WD-40 was worth a crap (and I was a small engine guy for a lawn service going through college) we used that as starting fluid for 2-strokes and it was pretty decent. More recently I had an old Echo that was getting the best of me and I just coupled a cordless drill on the crankshaft because I got tired of pulling the rope. Spun it over awhile until I got it to pop and run. It had spark but fuel was the problem. It ran long enough to realize it wasn't going to be hand-startable and it finally got replaced; the new carb and plug didn't help and I got tired of fighting with a 30 year old two stroke. My neighbor uses racing fuel so it doesn't go bad; he recently fired up his dirt bike (KTM?) that had been sitting for 2 years and it lit right off. He never even changed the fuel out; he just took it to the desert and ran the hell out of it. Can't do that with normal gas these days...Ken in AZOn Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 1:48 PM Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:I have spent nearly 2 days working on a 2 yr old Shindaiwa string 
trimmer.  My local parts store tells me the spark plug is a one of a 
kind NGK number and none are available in OK.  I have replaced the 
suction filter in the tank, the lines from the tank to the carb, cleaned 
out the carb, and checked the spark plug.  It will run maybe 2 seconds 
after pulling the starter rope 10 times and then back to cranking 
again.  There are a couple of models of trimmers that have electric 
start, but not in Oklahoma...   I grew up working on small engines, then 
later moving up to tractors and trucks.  I put myself through college 
working on tractors and rebuilding equipment.  I went to the field on 
got in the truck with a pair of pliers, a crescent wrench and a 
screwdriver and finished the job or my run and got back home,  In the 
last year I have not been able to make anything run that I have torn 
down.  If it isn't diesel I can't get it to run....This includes 
lawnmowers, ATV's and lawn & garden equipment.  Thank God my IHC truck 
doesn't need any work.  I just cannot figure out when I lost my touch as 
a mechanic..
I would sit down and cry if it would do any good, and I just don't do 
that...
Cecil

On 6/8/2021 2:50 PM, HERBERT METZ wrote:
> Carl; which ever color mower deck you use, keep those rear wheels spread wide when mowing around edge of ponds and other irregular, spongy, sloped surfaces. Herb(GA)
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>> On 06/08/2021 9:08 AM szabelski at wildblue.net <szabelski at wildblue.net> wrote:
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>> Mowing wit our Cub is one of my wife’s favorite tasks. She’ll happily go out and mow all day without saying anything to me, sometimes even when it doesn’t need mowing in my opinion. We have an International C2 belly mower and it takes no time to cut about 3 acres. I’ve got two sickle mowers for it, each missing one or two non critical part. I’m planning on getting at least one up and running so I can use it along the edge of our pond to cut the reeds that are growing there. My only issue is I have to decide which one I’m going to tackle. One is painted the standard red and the other is painted blue. Don’t know if there is a community preference as to which is preferred to mount on the Cub. The red one would match the color of the Cub, but the blue one stands out and seems to look better from pictures I’ve seen.
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>> Carl
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