Recent content by rangerfredbob

It's a CAV rotary, being a Ford there's a return on the side plate that goes to the fuel filter housing that I believe has a check ball in it as my brothers 4100 Ford had one that had roughly the same issue (and the pump was just as gross when he got it), he pulled out the ball and spring and...

Holy cow, I've had this thing 3 months already? Well that was before the trans went out on my tow rig so you'll get that... Started digging into it last weekend and the whole injector pump was covered in a brown layer of goo... pulled the starter so I could get the business end of the injection...

I have no real reference on how much louder as I did that right off... but that said I ran a whole tank through it yesterday and don't think it was any louder than the 40cc Poulan I'm used to... other than it chewed better :). I don't have a tach, was just tuning to smoke and gave it enough to...

Let this thing eat some wood today and had to adjust it, it's a hungry thing! It's definitely a good runner. Still have some tweaks to make and since I ended up about a turn out on the high needle I might change the pump diaphragm to a brown one... and check on the regulator lever level...

My brother uses a bean/corn planter for sunflowers, uses his grain drill for the smaller stuff.

I have all sorts of options cutting stuff and now have 3 plasma cutters, my first one doesn't work (did at first but I got it years ago when pilot arc was hard to find) and happened on a Harbor Freight one open box for cheap so I grabbed that which is my go to but I have a Thermal Dynamics older...

I did basically like your bottom picture but just with a simple clip with tin snips and pliers to fold the flap out, left the flap to keep the exhaust going forward, the louvers on the side I left alone. On the pump diaphragm it had the black but since it didn't run right I didn't trust it...

You sir were not kidding, that stock muffler was super restrictive! They cheapened the muffler up a bit from your pictures as mine doesn't have the "bolt retainer plate" and the outlet baffle is like the top picture of the new muffler with just the small slit on the front facing side and the...

Thanks for that! I'm going to go do that here shortly... I just spent a few minutes on it tonight, pulled the carb again to make sure it was all clean and good, popped off the needle restrictor plate and stuff so I could cycle them and checked the pump diaphragm which looked ok but was black...

Dug into it this morning and was able to get the kill switch working, it's convenient being handy... Checked the metering diaphragm and it would have been fine if I hadn't stabbed a screwdriver through it prying the cover off... It's a runner but I need to strip and clean the carb as the high...

Just a general question, I've had great luck with Echo engines and I know they can generally keep up with the bigger guys for the most part... Anywho, saw a CS-500P on marketplace for $40 and couldn't pass it up, it has a broken kill switch (they bumped it and now no spark and the switch is...

If you can watch the drive wheels while it's happening and see what is slowing down that would be helpful... If you've never changed the liner I would lean to that, chances are there's some buildup in there that might be binding that is assuming the wheels on the drive are spinning when the wire...

I got the Dawnroad version that's going for $60 now, I've only used my lowish torque 1/2" Bauer impact on it but it's held up fine so far (if you try really hard you can apparently shear the roll pin). Just watch the reviews as per normal on the bamazons... :)

Apparently I bought it just over a year ago when I had a leak in my rear tractor tire, the bead was rusted like heck to the wheel and nothing was working... That said I used it last weekend on some tires for my Explorer with 15" wheels, my bead breaker slide hammer was just sliding off, it...

I would definitely look on the used market but yeah I'd lean toward a dual voltage unit at least, you're going to want 1/8" wall tubing or pipe at least, don't think strut is going to hold up... that's the top of the 125A cheap units, the Titanium unlimited 140 would probably cut it but you'd...