What's on your bench today?

[Rich2484]

Looks ike there is only one place that's going......

 

Had an ms261 in today. Pull start being funny. Turns out it wasn't screwed on properly. And the internal clip that hold the throws in place was secured properly. All back together and awaiting collection.

 

All done with my multi tool. A very kind gift from ELG.

[spudulike]

A step forward to getting this Stihl Red Eye working, tried a few different settings - one was backfiring, one was spitting back through the carb and the other almost wrenched my arm off:thumbdown:

 

Went back to the MS650 I have and measured 22 degrees of advance again so reset the Red Eye back to as close to 22 degs advance now I know where on the flywheel to the coil it fires the spark.

 

Fired it up again and got it running well, good idle and pickup so now need to key the flywheel to give the magic 22 degrees of advance ignition - what a job:001_rolleyes: It advances 10-15 degrees when revved so will end up at 32 - 37 degrees - about right!

[Big Ben]

Ouch lol Any ideas on the cause?

No idea of the cause other than the user is a hamfisted oath/bull in a china shop. I'm wondering if he has run it low on oil and has tried going to steep up an incline and starving it of oil. He has taken to cutting the grass verge from his house up to his neighbours which is a long way and pretty steep, my transit will only get up in second gear.

Oh and its a Briggs and Stratton, I fell out of love with B&S a while ago and I'm really not surprised this has happened.

[Rich2484]

No idea of the cause other than the user is a hamfisted oath/bull in a china shop. I'm wondering if he has run it low on oil and has tried going to steep up an incline and starving it of oil. He has taken to cutting the grass verge from his house up to his neighbours which is a long way and pretty steep, my transit will only get up in second gear.

Oh and its a Briggs and Stratton, I fell out of love with B&S a while ago and I'm really not surprised this has happened.

 

:lol: Briggs and Stratton strikes again

 

I have a natural hatred for these engines. Best think to happen to it, now get a Honda in it.

[Eddie@aspen]

No idea of the cause other than the user is a hamfisted oath/bull in a china shop. I'm wondering if he has run it low on oil and has tried going to steep up an incline and starving it of oil. He has taken to cutting the grass verge from his house up to his neighbours which is a long way and pretty steep, my transit will only get up in second gear.

Oh and its a Briggs and Stratton, I fell out of love with B&S a while ago and I'm really not surprised this has happened.

There is nothing wrong with B+S engines I have worked with all types of garden machinery for over 20 years. As you say if any 4stroke engine is use on a slope it will have the chance of failure.

 

Just so you know B+S new range of engines have the exhaust and carb on the other side to the old engines so they are not direct replacements.

 

A honda will still fail if it has dirt in the carb causing fuel to fill the sump and if it is used on a slope too steep!

Edited March 30, 2013 by Eddie@aspen

[spudulike]

There is nothing wrong with B+S engines I have worked with all types of garden machinery for over 20 years. As you say if any 4stroke engine is use on a slope it will have the chance of failure.

 

Just so you know B+S new range of engines have the exhaust and carb on the other side to the old engines so they are not direct replacements.

 

A honda will still fail if it has dirt in the carb causing fuel to fill the sump and if it is used on a slope too steep!

 

The early Kawasaki Z1 engines failed and the route cause was found to be that when you gave it a fist full, most of the oil in the sump ended up at the back of the engine and starved the oil pickup - result, they fited a plate in the bottom of the sump to stop the shift of oil on acceleration.....simples:thumbup:

 

Oh - for the unintiated - ZI=1000cc old school superbike:thumbup:

[Rich2484]

Picking up a free quad later.

 

Honda trx200, small bike but worth a crack for free, missing coil and wiring harness. Oh and a carb. But all parts are relatively cheap to get hold of. Bit of a long project, going to go or a complete rebuild. Maybe try and get it road legal aswell.

 

Should be interesting.

[Wolfie]

Picking up a free quad later.

 

Honda trx200, small bike but worth a crack for free, missing coil and wiring harness. Oh and a carb. But all parts are relatively cheap to get hold of. Bit of a long project, going to go or a complete rebuild. Maybe try and get it road legal aswell.

 

Should be interesting.

 

It's surprising what a small cc quad can do.

I bought an old kwaka KLF220 for a job - I use it quite often now. It can pull my TW150 around no problem. S/h quads fetch a good price, any working quad generally goes for £1000+.

 

 

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[Rich2484]

It's surprising what a small cc quad can do.

I bought an old kwaka KLF220 for a job - I use it quite often now. It can pull my TW150 around no problem. S/h quads fetch a good price, any working quad generally goes for £1000+.

 

 

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That's why I'm jumping on this one. Even if it can't do anything with it stripping it for parts and selling them on is worth it. The wheels alone will make money.

 

It's from a lad at the lifeboat, he picked it up from a garage clearence he done and its sat in his back garden, the wiring is no issue as I can make a loom up for it, just the coil and carb. If memory serves me well most dirt bike carbs fit these engines as do coils and looms, it has that stator plate in so just a case of wiring from that, could either go simple with kill switches or use the handle bar control unit I have sitting in the shed and do it properly.

[GardenKit]

There is nothing wrong with B+S engines I have worked with all types of garden machinery for over 20 years. As you say if any 4stroke engine is use on a slope it will have the chance of failure.

 

Just so you know B+S new range of engines have the exhaust and carb on the other side to the old engines so they are not direct replacements.

 

A honda will still fail if it has dirt in the carb causing fuel to fill the sump and if it is used on a slope too steep!

I agree with Eddie on this one, there is nothing at all wrong with Briggs engines. They are pretty bombproof as long as the oil is maintained.

 

In my experience they are a lot less finicky than Honda, especially when it comes to carburation.