I always remove the seat since they come as a set. They aren't a matched set
however. Instead of folding the fuel line, you can stick a quarter inch bolt
in the line and that will plug it off.
There are fuel shut offs available as well that you can put in the line. I
like them so I can put
I never liked BS and the rest of the American engines. Not a baring or a
bushing in there. Just a hardened steal crankshaft rubbing against an
aluminum block. How the hell long do you think that's 'gonna last. Now you
know why those things are going away. The bright-boys figured themselves
They use to be something like 6 bucks if memory serves correctly but finding
one might not be easy. I don't even have anything around here with the
exception of a weed eater and when that quits, we pitch it and get a new one
and like I said, I took the course in 1980 so anything I know is 30
Hey Alan, great story, thanks for sending it along. Always thought back in the
day, I would have liked to do this, as a side job. talk later.
From: Alan Paganelli
Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2010 9:43 AM
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Tacumseh engine
Well this week has been a heavy one. I finished the miter corners of the
soffet. Then Monday, Tuesday, Thursday evenings and Friday afternoon my son
in law helped hang sheetrock. We used up the entire stack of 32 sheets.
Trouble is I am short. Looks like I estimated for the addition but not
I'd like to say it was my idea but it wasn't. My cousin thought of it.
Alan
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Great story Alan, thanks for posting it. Back in the day, 1970s or so, I
ran a business with a tool rental component. We had a mix of engines, BS,
Koehler and Wisconsin for the most part in the air-cooled department anyway.
The BS engines were forever being replaced, and were twice as loud as
You can find parts online now but Dale lives in Canada so that is a bit harder
to get parts there. I bet the Canadian Tire stores can find tune up parts.
- Original Message -
From: Alan Paganelli
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2010 10:52 AM
Oh boy! The Fairbanks Morris magneto! What a blast they could give you.
I became authorized service for each of the companies you mentioned in 76.
The Kohlers were so quiet because everything they made back then was cast iron.
They are related to the same people that make the bath tubs and
And at 1 time, the American small engines were number 1 but like so many
other American companies, greed took over and that took care of that. Today
everything on the American small engines are all throw-away parts. Easy to
work on if not cheap. Problem with electrical? Replace the
LOL! we were just talking about that store on my Blind-chit-chat group only
last week.
Alan
Please click on: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~alanandsuzanne/
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