If you own a lawn mower, no matter how well you maintain it, there will come a time when you will need lawn mower repair parts. Many parts are just for routine maintenance such as air filters and spark plugs and just about anyone can handle these.
Lawn mower repair parts are readily available on the internet for practically any kind of lawn mower made. You can compare prices on blades, belts, bushings, oil filters, fuel filters, brakes, tires, spindles, pulleys, gas caps, and more.
There are parts for sale for push mowers, gas and electric, riding mowers, and zero turn mowers. You can find manuals for your particular machine as well if you have misplaced the one that you originally had.
Keeping your lawn mower maintained is also important for the health of your grass. Dull blades will cut your lawn unevenly or won’t cut at all. And if they cut the lawn raggedly, tearing the grass, it can damage, and even destroy your lawn. And that scenario could be an expensive proposition; much more so than making sure you sharpen or replace the blades.
When researching lawn mower repair parts, make sure you have the make and model and year of your mower and buy the best quality parts available. Purchasing quality replacement parts will save you money in the long run because you won’t have to replace an inferior part prematurely, and you will prolong the life of your mower. And this is definitely cheaper than having to buy a new lawn mower.
Hello, I just recently got a 1970 Briggs & Stratton 3 1/2 horse vertical shaft mower engine. It turned over freely with good compression. The problem with it (which I knew for a fact) was that the carb needed cleaning/rebuilding and the points needed cleaning and regapping.
When I took the head off to make sure there was no carbon deposit, I noticed one of the valves was stuck open. So I took apart the crankcase. I messed around in the block (very clean inside) and got the valve to work the way it should. When I went to put the block back together, I noticed a green plastic gear. I thought it was the camshaft, but when I looked closer in the block, I seen two metal gears. I figured one of them metal gears was the camshaft. I am not sure what the green plastic gear is.
I tore apart a junk Briggs identical to this one to see where that green plastic gear hooked up to. I found out where and hooked it back up where it was suppose to go.(Looked like it’s job was to run around the sides of the other two metal gears) No here comes the fun part. I put back together the crankcase making sure all the alignment pins were all lines up, no dirt in the crank, made sure gasket went on right, etc. When I got it back together I spinned the crankshaft with my hand a few times and realized that the valves are working perfect, but the piston will only make about 3 or 4 strokes up and down then it will lock up. Then you can turn it the other way and it will do the same thing then lock up again. (I know what the piston and valves are doing because I have the head off).
Anyone have any suggestions to what I should try? What is that green plastic gear? I don’t see anyways why it would lock up like that with or without that green gear because I took out the gear and tried it and it does the same thing. The crankshaft is back together perfectly, and the only thing else off from the engine is the head, pullstart assembly, gas tank/carb, and the blade. Thanks
(I know it’s not a car motor but I had no luck over on home and garden)
this thing was rather easy to fix. It now runs, and drives. in fact as a special stress test, i drove it home from school today, And this thing did awsome. It now has a new battery and a new ignition switch as well as a new pair of keys. i also put a new gas cap on the engine, the old one was falling apart anyway. But an awsome machine nonethaless. now the only thing left to do is some cosmetic work on it and it will be complete. I’ll update you when its completely restored.
I traded a parts engine for a nonfunctional Eager 1 Craftsman lawnmower. I didn’t have any history on it. Once again, I lost some of my video footage. I got it cleaned, adjusted, and assembled, but it would not start. Had spark, so I put 2 Tablespoons of gas in cylinder. Fired right up and ran like a champ. Carb bowl must not have had enough time to fill. The last part was installing a throttle cable.
This video shows step-by-step instructions on replacing the Bearing for Honda Lawn Mowers. Buy part #91056-VL0-B00 now: www.repairclinic.com Tools Needed: Socket Wrench, Flathead Screwdriver, Rubber Mallet
I hope this 17.5 hp Tecumseh will fire up soon as I do a few things to it. I wish it had a 14 hp I/C OHV Briggs & Stratton. I ended up dragging the Murray home with the Suzuki 4×4 quad. This video was filmed on 6/20/10.