No matter the manufacturer of the small engine, you will be able to conduct small engine repair with the aid of this tome. Over 325 drawings and pictures assist you during every aspect of your small engine repair.

But you get more than just easy to follow directions and pretty pictures in this book. No matter if you are a hobbyist looking for a better way to build a small engine or a professional being paid to perform small engine repair, this guide will give you the tools you need to understand how a small engine works. Containing knowledge on every facet of the small engine, this volume is an essential part of your library no matter how you approach small engine repair and care.

This volume has been modernized to include the newest repair merchandise, tools and engines, as well as a segment on caring for your small engine during the off-season.

If you want to learn how to repair and care for your small engines manufactured by B&S, this book is the one for you! Though it is comprised mainly of color snapshots, this volume also has handy tables and drawings to assist you. This book has sections from basic and complex repair to how to care for your small engine.

The often neglected air cleaners and spark plugs are taken into account under the “Maintenance” section. Fine-tuning the carburetor, changing the rewind and troubleshooting are under the “Basic Repair” section. Information on caring for the valves and engine brake, restoring the ignition, detaching cylinder head carbon deposits, and refurbishing the carburetor can be found in the section titled “Advanced Repair”.

This manual is an asset to owners of small lawn equipment interested in properly caring for their small engine, but is not a comprehensive guide to refurbishing a small engine.

Obviously, preventing an issue is better than fixing one. If you perform regular maintenance on your yard equipment, like prior to storing it for winter or before starting it up in the spring, you could end up saving a lot of money on expensive fixes. You might also consider scrubbing the underside of your mower, and employing an air compressor to blow off the carburetor and air filter.

At times, the fix will be insignificant, like performing maintenance on the lawn mower blades, or changing a blocked fuel filter, which could be resulting in the poor performance of the lawn mower. What lawn mower repair is required can be difficult to determine, since the real issue will mostly likely not manifest itself in the component that needs to be fixed. Instead, it manifests in other components in the mower. For example, you might change a spark plug to fix a problem, however you should also have the carburetor examined since a lot of carburetor issues can look like spark plug issues.

For those of you who do not completely understand how a lawn mower works, you need to examine all issues and attempt to determine what is causing them. This will be a great beginning. For instance, does your lawn mower shake as it mows, or does it simply not run. You should make sure that you have enough gas in the mower and that the fuel mix is appropriate for your model, if you’re having trouble starting it. But, you still might not know what is causing the problem, or you could discover that you have to replace non-working components or have a significant problem fixed by a professional.

If you cannot discover what is causing your lawn mower issues, or you are unable to repair it yourself, then you need to contact an expert who can come to your house and examine the lawn mower for you. Most of the time, they will be able to find the root of the issue, or let you know if you’re operating the mower improperly, which has resulted in a lawn mower repair.

You will probably want to receive a number of opinions and quotes in order to know exactly what you should be paying. In cases where the repair is very expensive, you could determine that it will be cheaper in the long run to buy a new mower rather than continue to fix the old one.

Many years ago back when I was three or four my family and I lived in Ohio and Dad owned one of those red, Wheel-Horse tractors. It was an average size for a riding mower I suppose and very shiny. Dad had purchased it at Sears all those years ago. That had been long before he and Mom had adopted me. We had a large backyard that included a garden and my father used that blasted mower for just about any occasion he could think of. Whether it was to till up fresh dirt for planting, or mowing our spacious yard. It was because of his wide range of tasks for the mower to do that it seemed as thought he was always taking it in to be worked on.

Well, there were times when the mower didn’t need repair at all and Dad was only taking it in for some routine maintenance. There was one time when he had to take back to the dealer for a repair after using it as a pony-towing device one night. It was about 3: 30 in the morning and my Welsh/Shetland pony, Eddie fell to colic. Dad had supposedly found him first and had gotten Mom up and it wasn’t long after all the noise and excitement that I had awakened also. It was in mid summer, so the weather warm, no need to bundle up and I vaguely remember Mom and I walking out to Dad who had already fired up his ever-faithful Wheel-Horse and handed me Eddie’s lead rope. I sat on the back of the mower while Daddy went slowly around the yard and the two of us kept Eddie on his feet. We stopped after about 45 minutes or so and Eddie was put back in his stall.

The next day I believe that Dad was going to take the mower out to do the lawn and it wouldn’t budge for him. Well, it was official, the lawnmower was in need of repair, so Dad shoved it into the bed of his old Ford and hauled it off to Sears. There’s not a whole lot to tell after that, however because it was found out that the poor tractor had seen its last good deed done after pulling my pony and it had to be replaced. We were pressed for the funds to purchase a new mower for a while, so Dad did what he could with an old push mower he had and then our neighbor, Bob Cline would come and cut the rest with his riding mower.

I’m staying with an elderly woman now who had her nephew cut the grass for her one summer in exchange for a car she was trying to sell. The equipment that he uses looks pretty worn and sad really and he didn’t mow that many times for her that year where there hadn’t been at least one slip-up or mishap with his equipment. My family and I had moved to Tennessee before I turned 13. Mom had divorced and remarried and the two of them had decided to move back to his native state after not being able to stand Florida any longer. Okay, well now I’m with this older woman and as I said he did mow, (almost) for her for an entire summer. Well, her yard has got to be one of trickiest yards to mow that I ever did see.

The woman lives in a mobile home and each time her nephew would mow for her he couldn’t do so without hitting it, either with a stone that the blade had picked up, or with the mower itself. She owns a small lot beside the home as well and he tried cutting the grass with a riding mower once and tipped himself over. Luckily he didn’t hurt himself though. this woman’s nephew does all of his own lawnmower repairs, from tinkering with the engine to adding the oil and changing the spark plugs on the riding mower. When I had moved out of our house and my younger brother still lived with our folks he use to do all of the yard work for our parents. He still does it now sometimes even though he’s moved into a house and a yard of his own. I don’t remember us having much lawnmower repair work to do during this time. Usually if they have a problem with something now they just replace the old with the new.

I remember when I was younger I use to watch both of my fathers when they mowed, which by longstanding tradition was always done on Saturday. Anyway, I remember how excited I would get whenever my first adoptive father would let me ride on that old Wheel horse. When he had it he was forever getting stuff like promotions and advertisements for accessories for the mower. He would get these little stickers too. they were the ones with a horse’s head rolling over the wheel. He would give those to me whenever he got them. I’d say that’s about the extent of my ‘lawn mower repair” stories. Those were some good times and it’s to believe they’re all gone now.