11-26-2014, 04:05 AM
Thanks to methanol you can pick and choose through several verities of lawn tractors, if you've the patience.
I just bought, (in Florida) an up-grade fer myself because current one is beginning to wear. Shopping on Craig's list cheap to really cheap price for a nice shinny clean mower that the owner is sick and tired of replacing carburetors or paying annual fee to repair, 'carburetor rebuild'. .
60 bucks for a 5 year old very lightly used lawn tractor which I evaluated as a carb problem. just exactly what I was looking for except, priced much lower than I was expecting to pay! {Grinn}
Chemtrol B-12, 3 bucks most anywhere. the methanol is gumming up carbs so fast peps are rebuilding, or having carbs dipped and rebuilt nearly every season. Personally I've replaced carbs or yanked and cleaned em too. Until I Got B-12!
My newest mower was missing and spudering so as soon as got home with it, put the B-12 in and presto!.. But it did not completely fix it,, yet.. with good inspection I discovered the previous owner got frustrated as he'd broken off the plastic limiter on the carb's air/fuel mixture screw and twisted it into to much fuel range. preformed a quick search on the net to find the proper turn setting on it's carb, and wa-la, she runs smooth as silk!
missing can screw a engine up pretty bad, but,, in majority of cases if the oil is clean they didn't screw it up long enough, couldn't use it long enough to damage it permanently.
And so I'm a happy camper once again, albeit it's tempting to friggen buy all the mowers I see on craig's list fer cheap to super cheap, B-12 em, and flip back for major profits! Just yesterday near me, a push mower in free section, photograph in ad, it was so clean and shiny,, it'll guarantee the owner was just plain so P.O. he/she was giving it away, short of taking a sledge hammer to it!. I didn't go after it, but, just from the photos, I knew.
I've tried to get my neighbor to stick some inside of his, whenever I'd hear it starting to miss. but, he'd rather pay repair guy 200 buck every 18 months or so to have picked up and cleaned, go figure? LOL
just do your homework on the majority of mowers and engines, beware that there's some which are complete and total trash the day built, you can search the net about complaints to learn more about nearly every mower sold.. Albiet you have to expect most complaints are dopes too. still, you can narrow down certain pure trash qualities that are out there.. as example, I do not need a full sized one, so really liked certain little 28-30 inched tractors, until I discovered there's a few types that have freaken plastic gears!!. once you've narrowed down what ya want in a lawn tractor, or even a push mower,, wait, watch, and jump on em!
disclaimer: during my wait, for "the one" Occasionally I'd call up sellers and inform em about b-12.. [wink]
My current, hardly nothing wrong, just begging to wear and i'd bought it 4 years ago, same reason, carb. Now I've up-graded, I'll be selling old fer more than paid, I.E. Thanks to methanol gumming up carbs, I ride mowers for free because, I'll get double out of old mower. Still shiny and clean but a few more years and things will break.
I just bought, (in Florida) an up-grade fer myself because current one is beginning to wear. Shopping on Craig's list cheap to really cheap price for a nice shinny clean mower that the owner is sick and tired of replacing carburetors or paying annual fee to repair, 'carburetor rebuild'. .
60 bucks for a 5 year old very lightly used lawn tractor which I evaluated as a carb problem. just exactly what I was looking for except, priced much lower than I was expecting to pay! {Grinn}
Chemtrol B-12, 3 bucks most anywhere. the methanol is gumming up carbs so fast peps are rebuilding, or having carbs dipped and rebuilt nearly every season. Personally I've replaced carbs or yanked and cleaned em too. Until I Got B-12!
My newest mower was missing and spudering so as soon as got home with it, put the B-12 in and presto!.. But it did not completely fix it,, yet.. with good inspection I discovered the previous owner got frustrated as he'd broken off the plastic limiter on the carb's air/fuel mixture screw and twisted it into to much fuel range. preformed a quick search on the net to find the proper turn setting on it's carb, and wa-la, she runs smooth as silk!
missing can screw a engine up pretty bad, but,, in majority of cases if the oil is clean they didn't screw it up long enough, couldn't use it long enough to damage it permanently.
And so I'm a happy camper once again, albeit it's tempting to friggen buy all the mowers I see on craig's list fer cheap to super cheap, B-12 em, and flip back for major profits! Just yesterday near me, a push mower in free section, photograph in ad, it was so clean and shiny,, it'll guarantee the owner was just plain so P.O. he/she was giving it away, short of taking a sledge hammer to it!. I didn't go after it, but, just from the photos, I knew.
I've tried to get my neighbor to stick some inside of his, whenever I'd hear it starting to miss. but, he'd rather pay repair guy 200 buck every 18 months or so to have picked up and cleaned, go figure? LOL
just do your homework on the majority of mowers and engines, beware that there's some which are complete and total trash the day built, you can search the net about complaints to learn more about nearly every mower sold.. Albiet you have to expect most complaints are dopes too. still, you can narrow down certain pure trash qualities that are out there.. as example, I do not need a full sized one, so really liked certain little 28-30 inched tractors, until I discovered there's a few types that have freaken plastic gears!!. once you've narrowed down what ya want in a lawn tractor, or even a push mower,, wait, watch, and jump on em!
disclaimer: during my wait, for "the one" Occasionally I'd call up sellers and inform em about b-12.. [wink]
My current, hardly nothing wrong, just begging to wear and i'd bought it 4 years ago, same reason, carb. Now I've up-graded, I'll be selling old fer more than paid, I.E. Thanks to methanol gumming up carbs, I ride mowers for free because, I'll get double out of old mower. Still shiny and clean but a few more years and things will break.