I love old machinery. Project for the day. Try to get my Dad's old roto-tiller fired and running. It has been sitting for years. Numbers matching engine and transmission. They sure don't make them like this anymore. What a brute.

 

Stick shift, cast iron box, and power slashing tines.

Yea, I'll take one.

I like tinkering on small equipment. Have fun. How old? circa 1975?

 

Honestly not so sure on the date. I would guess mid seventies as well.

 

I have watched my share of rebuild/restore videos on the interweb and really enjoy when someone gets an old tool working again or when I myself do it. I bet you will enjoy getting that running too.

 

I am the same way. I love seeing old stuff going again. I will enjoy it. I like a challenge. First challenge is becoming that my Dad has no tools here. I will get done what I can today and come back more prepared tomorrow. Boy the smell of old gas takes me back to being in junkyards in the seventies/eighties. Ha ha. Really wanted to get this carburetor off today. Hmm...

 

My Dad had gotten into pulling old big-wheeled, single cast iron cylindered lawn tractors out from behind peoples barns before he passed last summer. He restored an old Cub Cadet from when they were using a red and white color scheme, and then an old Ford. They looked brand-new when he was done. Spent maybe $200 total for them both, including parts, and sold them for north of $700 both times. Wish I had the foresight to have bought one of them, just to have something that he had spent time fixing up.

 

Man I get it. I know exactly what you are saying. After my Mom passed I have as many things of hers around me that I have been able to find. 🙏

Funny thing with my Dad is he has seven kids. I am the youngest. Six boys. We are all mechanical. My Pop's? Not so much. Ha ha.

I have made progress. Got the tank pulled. Got the carb off. Going to have to soak it overnight. Go from there. Please excuse the crescent wrench 🤣



That float bowl is gnarly.

 

My Troy built Horse is over 50 years old and is better than a Timex watch

:Takes a licking and keeps on ticking'

 

This was the CC he redid. Notice the "restomod" dual stack exhausts coming out of the hood. 🤣



You should be able to source a carb for that online. With as crusty as it is, you're better off going that way for reliability. Try and get one that has a button on the bottom of the float bowl so you can drain the gas out of the carb, and avoid the ethanol varnish.

 

I run ethanol free and cut the gas off with a valve to shut it down. Outboard boat engine procedure.

 

Weezer. Thanks for the input. This original carb motor and transmission. 🤣😂🤣 It is worth the work (so far) to me. If I need to take another avenue I will. I got this.

​​​​​Koda. My brother just older than me is the best mechanic in our family. Well known on V8 Buick. He clued me in on the correct fuel after I get this done

 

Get er done !!!!!

 

Weezer I think you have the best idea. I broke the damn float trying to pull the pin to clean it 🤬. I can't believe how cheap a new one is. It will be less that twenty bucks shipped. Now I am just trying to cross reference the carb to get the right one. Do you suggest anyone? Looks like plenty available on epay.

 

This is older than me. It was my moms

 

I know I have the best idea. 😀

Seriously, though, when I saw that carb pic, originality vs $20 for a new carb that won't give you fits, the latter wins out for me. I do wish I could point you in the right direction, as I am not certain where my Dad ordered his from. I wound up selling a nice self-propelled mower last summer for $25 because I wasn't having any luck figuring out a primer bulb carb replacement vs the crap auto-choke carb that came on it. Since the mower was a roadside freebie and I had access to another mower that runs perfect, I cut my losses and made enough money for a good case of beer.

 

I was able to figure out the right carburetor. Twenty one dollars delivered next week.

Took me awhile to figure out that it is actually a Tecumseh engine and not a Briggs and Stratton. Once I finally figured that out finding a carburetor was a snap.

 

Hoping it’s a Briggs and not a Tecumseh 😁.

 

That's a Tecumseh. I recognize the puller.

 

You gotta love fresh brand new parts. Ordered Friday. Sitting on the porch when I got here today (Monday). 👍 Identical to the original.

 

Gotta love that drain button on the bottom. I tried starting my dormant pressure washer this weekend, and no-go. Time to pull the carb.

 

It's alive and working hard. 👍