Wrenchin... Adventures under the hood... Put em here.

[wooley12]

@Gravitylover. Had the same no start with mine. Took off the air filter and shot some brake cleaner into the carb. It ran for 15 seconds. Good sign. I got spark. Emptied the gas tank with a turkey baster. Pulled the carb off. Took float bowl off and float (don't loose the small parts) and cleaned it. Unscrewed the main jet and it was clean. Put it back together, added some FRESH gas in and it ran. Did the same with my outboard with success.

[gravitylover]

I took it apart yesterday, shot the carb with carb cleaner and got everything I could get to cleaned then put it back together. Nothing. It's looking like it comes apart again today and the carb gets broken down completely like what you did. I haven't rebuilt a carb in 25 years. Either that or I just tell the wife it's DOA and get a nice Makita electric and be done with the bs.

[Rideski]

@ fro thanks for the post on jack stands. Mine are from NAPA but I’ll go put some load on them and wiggle them around and see if they fail.

[uglymoney]

I took it apart yesterday, shot the carb with carb cleaner and got everything I could get to cleaned then put it back together. Nothing. It's looking like it comes apart again today and the carb gets broken down completely like what you did. I haven't rebuilt a carb in 25 years. Either that or I just tell the wife it's DOA and get a nice Makita electric and be done with the bs.

Electric is the way to go...but $27 for a new carb on the mower my neighbor gave me before he died of cancer...or $500 for a new electric mower that is actually up to the job. Went with the carb. And took my 20 year old mower to the recyclers.

[wooley12]

I've had my weed whacker stop running after a few seconds because mud wasps built nests in the air intake.

[gravitylover]

A bunch of little bits in the fuel system rotted Fucking ethanol...

[wooley12]

Ugh. No more ethanol for you. Same for my 30 y o Evinrude.

[uglymoney]

Sadly it is almost always ethanol.

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[gravitylover]

I wish I could get non-e gas closer than 40 miles from home. Going electric should solve that but it's gonna cost...

[uglymoney]

Ugh. No more ethanol for you. Same for my 30 y o Evinrude.

RIP Evinrude.

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[Ski220]

A bunch of little bits in the fuel system rotted Fucking ethanol...

Ugh. No more ethanol for you. Same for my 30 y o Evinrude.

It can happen suddenly.

Years ago when they first started mixing in ethanol, went out with a friend on my Whaler. Had one tank full, filled the other at a gas station, not the dock to save a little coin. After a few hours I switched tanks as I didn't want to run dry on the way back in. As soon as that new gas hit the engine - DITW! Ethanol had partially dissolved and released gunk. Clogged the fuel filter immediately. Ended up having to replace all gas lines, in and out of the engine and both tanks. As well as the fuel filter.

[gravitylover]

Boy I'm just getting fucked on things mechanical this week. Pulled the passenger rear wheel to start putting new pads and rotors on the 06 Durango and things were 'a bit' rusty. I finally got the caliper off and went to pull the mounting bracket and those bolts decided they like where they live so soak overnight again. I went out this morning and put the weakass old Dewalt impact wrench I borrowed on it and the head of the nut rounded in the first 2 seconds. Now the rusty stuff won't go back together, one of the pads fell apart and I can't put the wheel back on to take it to a shop and beg for help.

Time to start drinking and figure it out tomorrow I think...

[wooley12]

PB Blaster. 3x daily for a few days. Proper 6 pt socket on a hand tool. A couple of whacks with hammer on the tool clockwise direction to "break" the rust bond. You won't feel it move. Start turning counter clockwise and hold your breath. I never leaned anything that I didn't screw up the first time so you got that out of the way.

What I've found to be true working on old metal. If the number of threaded fasteners is greater than 4, the last one will be the hardest to remove.

[Ski220]

What I've found to be true working on old metal. If the number of threaded fasteners is greater than 4, the last one will be the hardest to remove.

Physics. Whenever you have two surfaces held tightly together, as you remove the fasteners the forces are transferred to the remaining fasteners. By the time you get to the last one all the forces are going to that one.

Solution. As you break free each one retorque it down until all are free.

[Timberridge]

Proper 6 pt socket on a hand tool.

This I've learned the hard way as well. The advantage of using power tools is that they allow you to fuck things up to a greater degree far faster than using hand tools. A 24" long 1/2" drive bar is the best tool I ever bought for working on rusty car parts.

[NW_SKIER]

Boy I'm just getting fucked on things mechanical this week. Pulled the passenger rear wheel to start putting new pads and rotors on the 06 Durango and things were 'a bit' rusty. I finally got the caliper off and went to pull the mounting bracket and those bolts decided they like where they live so soak overnight again. I went out this morning and put the weakass old Dewalt impact wrench I borrowed on it and the head of the nut rounded in the first 2 seconds. Now the rusty stuff won't go back together, one of the pads fell apart and I can't put the wheel back on to take it to a shop and beg for help.

Time to start drinking and figure it out tomorrow I think...

Do you have an oxy-acetylene torch? Get that bolt hot as fuck, let it cool for a couple minutes, then clamp a vise grip on there as tight as humanly possible, and give it a go. If that doesn't work, I'd be very surprised. Secondary option is to weld a grade 8 nut onto the stripped head and try again with the impact.

[hawkgt]

Do you have an oxy-acetylene torch? Get that bolt hot as fuck, let it cool for a couple minutes, then clamp a vise grip on there as tight as humanly possible, and give it a go. If that doesn't work, I'd be very surprised. Secondary option is to weld a grade 8 nut onto the stripped head and try again with the impact.

This, heat is friend, even a small green bottle torch will do decent if you let it sit for a bit. I also like to hit head of the bolt while hot also to "break" it away from the rusty seal.

When you need to weld on another nut, you are at the ZEN moment when every word out of your mouth will be a cuss word.

[frorider]

Agree on the high leverage hand tools, they allow some sort of feel for what’s going on. Also agree on the 2 X daily PB Blaster. Had some suspension parts take 48 hrs.

[lifelinksplit]

Yep. My rusty regiment is PB blaster(or liquid wrench etc) night before and repeat as necessary. Also I mostly leave air/power tools till after I break loose. Proper socket and 1/2in ratchet with a big fucking breaker bar. My go to is the top half of the floor jack. If you need a bigger breaker bar than that, well, something is gonna break...Haha. have also used the heat and vice grip method as well. Never welded a nut to stripped one but have used a touch smaller socket and beat the shit outta of it to make it "fit" not really recommended.

[gravitylover]

PB Blaster. 3x daily for a few days. Proper 6 pt socket on a hand tool. A couple of whacks with hammer on the tool clockwise direction to "break" the rust bond. You won't feel it move. Start turning counter clockwise and hold your breath. I never leaned anything that I didn't screw up the first time so you got that out of the way.

What I've found to be true working on old metal. If the number of threaded fasteners is greater than 4, the last one will be the hardest to remove.

Ha! So very true.

Physics. Whenever you have two surfaces held tightly together, as you remove the fasteners the forces are transferred to the remaining fasteners. By the time you get to the last one all the forces are going to that one.

Solution. As you break free each one retorque it down until all are free.

Why didn't I ever think of that solution? Well shit...

This, heat is friend, even a small green bottle torch will do decent if you let it sit for a bit. I also like to hit head of the bolt while hot also to "break" it away from the rusty seal.

When you need to weld on another nut, you are at the ZEN moment when every word out of your mouth will be a cuss word.

I got a better fitting 6 point to hold well, forgot I had this impact set so the game is still on. Ya think a little propane torch might do it? Alrightee then, gonna go pull the wheel off again and shoot it with some more PB.

It's a pita getting a breaker on the passenger side because you're lifting up not pushing down, that's why I borrowed what turned out to be a shitty impact wrench. Has anyone ever seen one you can hold still in your hand

[snowaddict91]

It's a pita getting a breaker on the passenger side because you're lifting up not pushing down, that's why I borrowed what turned out to be a shitty impact wrench. Has anyone ever seen one you can hold still in your hand

Use your floor jack under your breaker bar to push it up if you can't generate enough force to lift it. Safer than using an impact as you can "feel" it a bit as someone mentioned above.

[gravitylover]

Ding now I get it, missed that the first time. See this is why I ask questions and relay my issues when I'm digging into things I don't really know about. This thread is awesome

[Rideski]

It's a pita getting a breaker on the passenger side because you're lifting up not pushing down

I’m only in my second cup of coffee but haven’t figured that one out yet...

[NW_SKIER]

Put an extension on the socket and spin the wrench over the other way so you can push on it. Then put something under the head of the wrench to keep it from falling. Or have someone help you hold it. Works for me anyways.

[hawkgt]

Or have someone help you hold it. Works for me anyways.

HAH!! Just reminded me of my and a buddy in HS. He chipped his teeth while we attempted this on my car (75 Vega and dropped a 327 into) getting the 10 bolt rear end out. He was holding the wrench head.
Looked like Floyd Christmas for a couple years until fixed.