Friday, May 19, 2006
My mower’s back and the grass is in trouble hay na...
I maintain around the house that I can fix anything. Its a testicle thing, some of you might not understand. Well I was able to resurrect the 'weed steed' one more time. The whole smoking, paint burning oil thing had me quite convinced that it was over but apparently not. What it had done this time was shear off the timing pin on the flywheel. Pulled the top of the motor off, aligned and taped in a new pin and presto! I fixed it again! Now my significant other takes some issue with that statement. She maintains that you if in order to start the motor you have to take the head off and tap the exhaust valve back into place each time that “fixed” is an inappropriate term. She thinks “colossal waste of time”, “money pit” and “why the hell don’t we just get a new one” are all far more descriptive of the situation. It is at this point that I must reference back to the testicle thing. Half of you are nodding your head in agreement and the other half are ignorant and simply do not comprehend the importance of such a momentous success. I was able to mow my yards and the yard of the house we are selling in record time without incident. Well except that the tire was flat, 2 spark plugs fouled out, had bearings in a mower deck pulley fail (smoked that sum bitch let me tell you!) the mower deck drive belt failed shortly after replacing the pulley (I think they might have been related...) and second gear seems to be on hiatus again. All in all 4 hours to mow 2 small lawns with a twin blade riding lawn mower is good time, at least for this mower. I tried pointing out to my wife that the cloud of smoke is an excellent mosquito repellent but she just doesn't understand these things.
Price of new spark plugs: What is this 'new' you speak of?
Price of timing pin: $1.89
Price of replacement Mower deck pulley: No idea, found it in a bucket
Price of new belt: Found in road few weeks back
The look on my wife’s face when I got it running one more time: Priceless
