Can It Be Saved? $5 Yard Sale Backpack Leaf Blower

hey guys how's it going our next victim to be is going to be about a month ago i stopped at a yard sale and this backpack leaf blower was out there for five bucks i think i paid for it and that's what the back story was it was on a job site when the landscapers were done they left it behind so that's not i'm not saying that's a good omen for its condition but i have a feeling they got so frustrated with it they may have just been done with it so let's go uh either see if we can fix it or figure out why it died in the first place let's get set up and get some wrenching done actually you can break that hose down a little bit [Applause] to get it a little on the smaller side to deal with i'm gonna go grab a screwdriver we'll take out one of the clamps off just get this out of the way for now hey cheddar rustle up octopus keep us from clearing all the hardware off the bench every time we turn it as far as a backpack blowers go it's a fairly good name red max is on the commercial side of things not sure if they got into selling residential stuff yet it's a big air cleaner not too bad neither all right let's get the plug out of it and then we'll give her a couple of yanks over with the core we'll throw a little oil down pretty rusty let's get some oil down inside there they're taking that plug out looks like somebody put a helicoil in there see the edge of the there's some carbon on it right there maybe you can see where the aluminum is and then where there's a steel coil looks like i added to it later on this is marble mystery yeah a little dosing of that the rings get some kind of moisture through throw that plug in there see if we get anything off of that we need metal to ground them let's um let me get jumper wire okay it's all one yeah i got a little bit of sparkle um not quite sure what the deals with these two wires hanging out i would think they would just be the kill switch on the handle you bring a throttle all the way down it's full throttle off we'll worry about them later let's kind of wonder if they had a problem like why would you rip them out if you felt that you maybe didn't have any spark anyway maybe we'll clean that up a little bit knock some of that rust off of there and then we'll dribble a little bit of gas and give her a yank a little bit of gas clean herb plug choke is off and let's just see if she fires up and how it sounds if it does come baby good awesome i think we need a bunch of other issues kind of addressed like broken off fuel lines not even in the tank and that is at least it seems like the uh combustion chamber's pretty good let's get the air boot off of it take start looking at the carburetor see what kind of mess we got going on down here i think there's a gremlin in the air cleaner just not happy about it either all right let's we know we got the busted up fuel lines down below the grommet to the tank looks like it's not touching the sides of it so i tried getting another one and um no avail i can order one online but you know you kind of want to do something while you're working it let's get to probably the gas tank off of it let's go figure out where that is into the bottom yeah let's get those two screws out of it get the tank off of it we'll start flushing it out and see what we can do for a fuel system that's the other and if you call it a float or sink the filter which is continuation of this black line that is still connected down inside there there's a little hook so it's got a weight on it and a filter so no matter how you move the backpack blower the weight always wants to stay at the bottom of the tank so you're not sucking air it's looking along the punky side though let's get this grommet out of it and maybe we can let's try soaking that in hot water okay right off of there let's try soaking this in hot water for a while and see if it'll expand up enough to where it'll it'll close that gap up again let's see if it pours out of that tank trying to get an idea whether it was non-ethanol or ethanol fuel like i said before other videos generally landscapers do quite good as far as their fuels taking care of stuff not trying to use pump gas because it takes out the carburetors whether or not we're gonna go find that out on here but i would definitely say that was that was clean when we started it's got a lot of sludge sitting in the bottom i'm going to go rinse this out wash the tank in a parts washer and we have cooking is a little seal and hopefully it kind of swells up takes the gap up around it if not we'll try some other little tricks all right thanks clean let's see if we can get uh some of the crap that's packed in that filter out of there it's car cleaner the best way really is to blow from the inside it's a joke there see if we do without taking the line off see how the crap that pushes out of it that gets so packed with what happens is a lot of the uh the gas will evaporate it just leaves the oil behind and of course everything is picked up we're going to find out real soon whether that works and now i'm going to try uh just blowing through the end of it yeah i can blow right through the filter filter slash weight that black line i don't know if i have that size i'm gonna go see what i got in my stash for fuel line and see what we can change out let's take that plug out of the heat there seems like it kind of swelled up in a little bit better some new yellow lines two different sizes the yellow i believe is the larger of the two but that is just a return so it does not need to go into the tank a great distance it's just a return loop as you you prime the primer bulb fuel gets drawn up the black line from the filter using the carburetor through the uh little pump that's on it and just returns down here and basically bleeds all the air out of the system so let's get that one replaced and we'll probably use the black one over again and we'll see by putting some fuel in it if it gets a prime going through the carburetor there's a primer bulb i was talking about let's go pump out whatever crap is in it the fact that it's pumping is a good sign too let's just get rid of that all together should we just guesstimate to the tank we'll give her get rid of that much the rest will just shove down in the tank there we go now the big thing is weather the grommet is going to fit back in the tank tight without us having to do some modifications let's see if we get secure that heck of plastic yeah it's floating a little i am going to go take an o-ring plastic rubber o-ring very thin one that i can find i'm going to go place it probably right about here and see if it'll just that way when it pushes down we can kind of like pull up on it and this lip will contact the edge of it let's see how that works out so let's say finally trying to go get that line back through that hole first of all the end it's kind of beat anyway and stretched out but if you cut it on an angle not even more than that that way you can feed it up and a little bit of the the tip sticks through you just go grab that with pliers which they don't have at the moment let's see if we can get my fingernails yeah it's up and through and that feels snug on the on the seal too so at least those two kind of close themselves back up again let's go uh working that a little white and o-ring set make ourselves some room here knock that over i can see that going everywhere right let's see if this one kind of wants something with a thin diameter too doesn't need that much stretcher out see if that'll tuck under that might do it yeah that's pretty good now there's a way lower yeah yellow line back in there we knocked out all right let's go pop that carb the fuel tank back on there hook the lines up and see we put some fuel in it if it'll prime itself and if it primes itself it stays running so a little non-ethanol true fuel pre-mix stuff that saves your carburetor you think getting overzealous there yeah let's go see that primer bulb will draw some fuel up for us so we are right there and she's filling up we're turning down the other line which is exactly what we want all right let's go throw a little bit of choke on it i think it's right there let's go get you back in the stand and we'll fire it up see what she does so my goal is for it to start be able to turn the choke all the way off and for it to ruffle throttle and to be able to idle if it does all that then that carb is okay if it does not do those things then we have some issues uh throttle that's full throttle and we got choke right now so the gas cap on the air cleaner assembly is off so that's going to throw the mix off a little bit but we should have at least a general idea if it's going to perform for us or not shall we [Music] it's smoky but [Music] he's doing pretty good [Music] grab her up real quick make sure it's good on the top end break it up a little bit on the top end i do not know if this has any air fuel adjustments on the carburetor i'm going to go take a little bit of time and go wash some of this crap off of it too but good seems like it runs like i should just gotta go figure out kill wires what's happening with that the throttle doesn't seem like it has full play like it when it goes to idle that's not idle it's got to go down there that's where idle is so i don't know if they just whack some of the linkages or the cabling or what's happening with here actually it's got a big pinch right there so maybe we'll look into some of that stuff i think i can go pop this uh pull starter off it's kind of lame in that last little bit oh lengthen the rope too nope uh yeah let's uh see if we can get another loop out of this that takes care of some of that play looks like four phillips screws sometimes when people change the cord it loses some now this one's good because it's got a little cutaway inside it so i'll be able to pull this cable so it lines up with that cut away and then should be able to pull it should be able to grab the line and pull it up through that gap damn it and then actually about to loop it again where i want to go i'm going to go tighter so i want to go one lap that way and then pull the rope back through again and now there you go so i took the play out of there you could throw that back on i'm going to put a drop of automatic transmission fluid right down the center of that actually we could use that um marble that i had somewhere yeah it's gonna take a little drop a little and just let that kind of take care of the cam in the center of it that it rises up on sometimes it's a good idea sometimes it's not it kind of depends on the equipment because if it's in a really dirty environment the back um the problem with um using oil is whatever hold on one second whatever dusty atmosphere you put it in it'll attract dust this looks like it's pretty closed up fairly well but that's what'll happen is it dust will stick to it and then it kind of defeats the purpose of it and uh a good alternative is like a graphite i think i have some of that over there okay ordered a tube anyway we're gonna go like i said it's enough to wash that carburetor i want to clean some of the crap off the outside of this now that we know it runs let me bring the whole thing over to the washer and that's what i'm talking about see how that dust kind of builds up on that well that's what you don't want happening inside on that pull start too but this pull start doesn't have any venting inside any place i can see it really kind of getting in is maybe through there i see the two wires coming out from the engine which will be the kill wires let's go see what we got for the switch if the switch still works in the throttle or not so we want one end we touch these together that should ohm out four on ohms we're on dc okay ohms should go to zero which does and that switch should go open and closed right now it's open let's go work the lever a little bit to the that should have been off right there i do not see those that switch working inside that throttle whether it's got like a bump that you have to go over sometimes it's i don't it will push it in nope i don't see it doing what it's supposed to be doing all right we know we got to fix that the funky throttle with the busted cable the splitting the cable there and the splitting the cable there and this is not working also so let's go open that up see what's inside there let's see what we need to do to correct it possibly you might be able to do some heat shrink tubing over where these bins are and it'll i'll take the play i have it feeling too motor it's supposed to be more like maybe like that because this is you're supposed to be able to pull down the side of you when you're operating that should be in that direction and all this stuff probably had some kind of connector or something kind of guiding the direction of it instead it got all funkified around there all right let's go open to this see we can go find so i flipped it around it's ready to start taking it apart got a kill button right there happens when you assume things right so let's go check that again if you don't have to take it apart i'm going to take it apart we need to hop polarity doesn't matter with a resistance and we need our meter so it's open right now still doesn't work [Laughter] and that should be giving us a closed signal just when you thought it was safe let's make sure our meter's still working touching them together yep rounds up still a problem in there somewhere all see if we right just push that switch i'm not sure quick give her some slack of wire too let's clip right on the back of both sides of these let's see if we get any difference right at we have to switch itself it could be a break in a wire going down instead nope still nothing so it's right in the switch itself let's see if we can dissect that switch you can get the little thing right out of it there's probably a little set of contacts in there that we can that we can clean what you can see it's got a little tiny tab right there which is a put in place you can stab yourself in the finger you're taking it apart same on both sides you know i'm going to stab myself all right carefully if you want to take this apart you pick a little spring with a rocker a set of points on it there's a spring there's a rod that probably goes across and makes contact with each unless we got so that should have a set of contacts in there though i'm not seeing what's metal what it touches right you push these up more are these too far out no you take a little contact length i should probably use a little carb cleaner just blow that out i'll go clean that little pivot rod going across there that's what it looks like probably makes contact to the both of them right it pushes in clicks in now it just stays at momentary so these two need to come across touch the two contacts in here ground them out is how that works so that's what i'll do is i'll clean up these surfaces right here and i don't know i think i look down inside there i don't know what there is to clean it possibly we'll put that back together again and we'll see if it will make a signal for us get that cleaned out i don't know which way that went like that doesn't have much of a choice let's go push that back in hook our leads back up let's see if it works now still nothing well it won't do anything when one of the two leads come apart these two try it there we go open closed open closed there we go so we got a kill switch working again we'll go pull that back up into place and we'll see about running the two wires down to the two wires on there should probably also start screwing with this maybe uh maybe we'll take off the carburetor side we'll see if we can get some heat shrink tubing to kind of hold them straight it's in the hole yeah it seems kind of a weird angle i have a feeling it probably was meant to go down and there's a clip down in here probably where it's where it locked into and you can move this handle wherever you want it it really didn't affect it it's all that much but let's get wrench on here we'll get this cable right off of here and see if we can start doctoring up the body of it a little bit the little barrel on there might fit through so you can get it might fit through without having to take any hardware off so let's see if we can pop that out of its [Music] let's get that whole thing to lift right out of there there we go yeah we can get that shrink tubing over a little bit better let's go see what i got my stash for uh for that so basically it looks like three spots oh yeah start our hair and brownies and crap off let's just see if this one's good enough to get it down over now i have to go next size up i double them up too see how that does for us cigarette lighter works pretty good for this too i'd say we go one level with each one that's broke right now and we'll come back maybe with another size and we'll drift over this is the worst one right here you could buy this cable in length you could buy it it comes with the outer jacket and then the inner hot zone i think if we get that supported like it should probably should be pretty good i could have favored that one a little closer to the to the break oh we got one more over there sometimes you get the same size over it too you can run the like maybe a little too tight look at that i got another um box which might have some try to find a size somewhere between the two of these that next one looks kind of kind of large you know put my iron man out of gas my iron ran out of gas that's better wonder why i got so quiet all right bare minimum i want to get one more on that one yeah shut this off oh yeah they're going to be about the same size as that give more one more [Music] left the gas tank back out of the way so you can see i pulled the jackets back on these two i think one of them's a little crushed let me see if i have the opposing it's male male plugs that go in there and uh we'll just put them on the two wires these two wires we'll plug them back in if not maybe i'll just switch them over to uh the regular electrical connectors or probably just put them together hardwired right i think it's these yeah that's it this one's got to be opened up some more yet yeah by a mile i get it yep now those wires are hooked up let's run that throttle cable like we think it's should go and we'll see what we get for travel and all the kinks and bends are out of it probably should have shot some lube down that too would have been a good idea new new guy all right let's wrap that throttle over and one should be bigger than the other should go to drop in there you go let's go that's full throttle and is that hitting the stop no let's give it's close does it get full throttle i think he gets full throttle and then some let's go back off this linkage a little bit so it touches right there because it seemed like it was idling okay right there right we'll go grab a wrench we're gonna go tweak that a little bit just give it a little bit more downward movement just spin that right in that's it it's hitting the stop now see we get on full throttle and it's full throttle good we got full travel i see we could put the gas tank back on we could probably put our air cleaner assembly back on clean that up and we'll fire it up again see how it does so nope that's wrong it's like that let's say the pre-filter is supposed to be the first thing in line right is it like that now that we all have a drag put back on it other than the hose let's go fire it up see how it performs as far as uh anywhere from idle to full throttle careful the exhaust is right here all right let's go so that's like a third throttle no choke just to see we can [Music] let's go full problem [Applause] and the kill switch works awesome i think we got it let's go throw that hose back on there so i did a quick search i couldn't find the eb 7000 being sold now but right now this is a eb 7500 which is uh 566 bucks so um i say it's definitely a good deal we bought it for five bucks we put what a piece of fuel line re-round the starter a little bit fix some wires for the kill clean the gas tank out clean the rusty plug blew the air cleaner out and that's really about it we haven't done much more in that anyway so uh that's a good deal i say we probably got maybe 45 minutes work time on it and five bucks if that in materials and five bucks that we paid for so 10 bucks in 45 minutes let's go blow some junk [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] there you go [Applause] no complaints there a little beat up and rougher on the edges but still perfectly operational well i gotta be happy with that really worked out quite well didn't really need much of anything just a little bit of level of maintenance and came right back that would be good for another 10 years of operation it was going to um run a little uh breaking up when i gave it throughout i was going to go pull the muffler off and see if there's any carbon builds up inside but it seems like everything's fine so i'm just gonna leave well enough alone all right guys with that i'm gonna sign off thank you hell for hanging out we do a bit of ranching and uh we gotta get back in that kubota pretty soon but this is a little filling one for right now it's a little easy one to work on and plus i need it so until then i'll see you soon later bye hey guys one thing i just wanted to add into this whole thing is uh i want to thank everybody for all the well wishes for uh my wife and i get over being sick we got the big c got us i was debating whether to talk about it during the video and the trials and tribulations of what i went through but unfortunately uh youtube is not very friendly to discussing anything medical wise so i'm going to have to kind of leave that maybe for another day maybe not we'll see how things kind of turn out but let's just say i had to do some stuff that is not recommended by the cdc but is recommended by the flccc frontline critical care alliance i think it's what it stands for and they have some much better uh non business political ways of remedying yourself after you get sick not just what you do before you get sick so it was a turning point for me and uh there was some information there that really helped all right guys enough of that that's i'm getting into the rant that i didn't want to get into but thanks again for again all the well wishes i'm on my um on the mend lost a few pounds which probably isn't a bad thing neither and uh we'll get back into some heavier stuff as i regain my strength a little bit and the games continue all right till then later bye

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Length: 38min 57sec (2337 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 19 2021