Gas-Powered Lawn Tool Repair Night Fail
Last night was Gas-Powered Lawn Tool Repair Night at my house. My weed whacker hasn’t been running very well the last few years, and I couldn’t get it to run at all this weekend.
The culprit?
I’m sure that I’m the culprit. In 9 years, I’ve never changed the spark plug or cleaned the air filter. Plus, I think the gas I’m using is 3 or 4 years old. So… I cleaned the air filter, purchased a new spark plug, and I got some more oil to mix in with new gas. The spark plus was pretty gunked up, as you might imagine.
Does it work? Don’t know yet… I forgot to take the gas can with me and didn’t get any gas.
I figured I should also get a new spark plug and air filter for the mower. They were probably only two years old…
Also bought a new blade. Although I didn’t realize it was the wrong size until after I shredded the packaging! Someone had put a 21″ blade in a 20″ box… My own stupid fault for not looking at the package…
So it’s back to Lowe’s after work today to attempt an exchange.
You take after your Pa.
Good stuff.
I saw something like this in SE Michigan recently on a 20HP Briggs & Stratton Twin.