Fixing a Non-Start Craftsman EZ Start Mower

alright guys so this morning I got this lawnmower in on a trade towards another lawnmower that I was selling I've already just did a video on how to determine a lawnmower 'value because that was a video request so you guys can see all that stuff you know in the description bar if you so choose to I've already determined that this mower has a good amount of compression the blade is fine and the crankshaft is not bent the guy that I got it from told me that it just stopped working and so let's get started go ahead and pull the air filter box off and the air filter definitely needs some attention looks like we've got a spider residing in here somewhere looks like he's right there so we'll set that aside fuel line still feels good so we'll save that but first of all go ahead and remove the other part of the air filter box I'll set this aside but we'll set the screw inside of the mag bar and then we have much better access here to the rest of the filter box PCV line came off so you need to reinstall that and now we're at the carburetor so the carburetor definitely looks dirty this carburetor is more than likely dirty you guys can see that a little bit let me zoom in and so as you guys can see the carburetor does have some old fuel that's kind of congealed right here so this carburetor is more than likely the bare minimum just going to need a cleaning but I do have rebuild parts on hand so go ahead and pull the fuel line off and back and so I got the fuel line off I've done it both ways either with a pair of vise grips to pinch it off up here or just stick a screwdriver in all the way back to the clamp there and it creates a good enough seal so we can go ahead and move this out of the way if that fuel line was cracked you wouldn't want to do that but you'd want to replace it anyways so now we can get to the carburetor these are kind of fun to remove you have to get a I believe a quarter inch wrench and take that top bolt off go ahead and remove this so now with this removed and just sitting haphazardly there at the side and now go ahead take the two bolts off holding the carburetor some of the carburetor is free now you have it so now let's pull it apart and give it a good thorough cleaning so now we have the carburetor so it's a soft pinch bolt that holds the bowl on at the bottom of that this is going to be dripping fuel but that's why I've got the mag Bowl here to catch it needs a good wash anyways here's the bottom bolt you can already tell you guys this is definitely gummed up so I'll show you guys how to clean them out and using the way that I've done that for years so actually we can stick it stick it to some of the gas maybe that'll do something probably not but whatever so then we can just pull the bowl off the inside is not actually all that bad so go ahead and set that down and we'll pull the float out so there's there's the float pen here's the float float looks to be in good shape then we have the needle and as well as the seat that's in there the seat looks okay so I'm not going to really mess with that too much the whole inside of this carburetor is actually fairly clean now generally when I clean out a carburetor I'll squirt a little bit of carb cleaner in it and I'd always cleans it out really well I've also used mechanics wire to clean out some of these holes and everything in there and definitely in that bolt that's what I'm going to be doing now I know some of you guys you're going to say that you do this a certain different way but you know I've been doing it this way for years and I have never once had an issue doing it this way so we can start with this one and we'll do this one some of you guys are going to say that you know squirt and carb cleaner into the into the seat like that is going to damage it it's really not this stuff evaporates so quickly if you were using brake cleaner that'd be a little bit different but this carb cleaner it just evaporates and it's gone so quickly that again I've never had an issue once with anything like that and that's really all there is to it you also have these here which I've used mechanics wire to clean out before but we'll see if the probe cleaner will do anything and that clean that one out pretty good now you have it so now just to scrape that gasket off so now we're about to attack the little bolt here as you can see there's a lot of green corrosion from old gassing on the top of it so we'll go ahead and take all that off with a wire brush it looks a lot better a little bit of corrosion on the threads and some green grime on the shaft there scrape that all as well so I just grab the wire straighten it out a little bit and then that tiny little hole that's in there I just poke the wire down there and just kind of wiggle it back and forth a little bit you're not going to widen the hole doing that I've had some people say that before but that's not going to happen I've never had that happen to me and this stuff is small and not that it's actually smaller than the little opening that's inside there this goes in nice and easy and there's a fairly significant amount of wiggle room inside so that's how I clean it out you can also use a small wire from a wire brush as well and do the same thing so I always stick it in through the bottom and I do the same thing as you guys can see that holes definitely a lot bigger so I'll do it that side and then I'll do it this side as well and now we can finish it off with blowing some card cleaner through the top and it is now nice and clean and ready to reinstall so now we can reinstall everything into the bottom of the carburetor the first thing you want to do is grab your needle which the needle is in really clean really good condition this carburetor I suspect was just because it was gummed up at the bottom it just wasn't wanting to work for the guy so go ahead and throw your float back on grab your float pin stick that through the hole now you have it works just fine now we can grab the ball throw your bowl back on now this little bottom gasket sometimes they like to stay on the carburetor and I never pull them off unless I absolutely have to when you pull them off and if you don't have any extras on hand which I don't know if I do or not I know I do in the rebuild kits but I don't want to break a rebuild kit open unless I absolutely have to but you don't really want to remove those bottom gaskets from the bottom of the carburetor unless you absolutely need to because you try and remove that you're probably going to damage it and if you reuse that it's probably in a leak so anyways you can just go ahead and cinch it down I just snug it up I don't over tighten those at all butterfly valves working good chokes working good as well so it's pretty much ready to be reinstalled now we can go ahead and reinstall the carburetor got both the bolts right here there's also a little o-ring here you always want to make sure that's there sometimes it could come out with the carburetor and you might drop it but it's a very common o-ring you can get those at really any auto parts store just bring in your old one if you've still got it if it's damaged or anything and you can size it up with a correct one I actually bought an o-ring kit from Harbor Freight that I've used throughout the years and this worked out fine for me and I always cinch these down by hand so not too tight but should you want to make sure they're nice and snug and make sure that little tip right there is lined up on the butterfly valve and I do thread these in with my fingers first before I stick the wrench on them just because it makes them a little easier to work with and you can over tighten these so you want to make sure that it's definitely nice and loose and does the job its intended to do and it just bottom down so I didn't go any further and it's functioning as intended govenor linkages functioning as that's intended so now we can go ahead and clean off this mating surface for the gasket very easy to do I use a craftsman gasket scraper works pretty good it's actually really not much of the gasket that's left on it and then be careful not to get any of the shavings into the carburetor because I'm going to have to fish them out of course so that's nice and clean and it's ready to accept a new gasket but before we do that we'll go ahead and reinstall our fuel line so now that we'll fill the bowl up and just bring you a little clamp forward so here's the part number for the new gasket and we're ready to reinstall it back onto the lawnmower now these can be kind of tricky because you don't you want to put a uniform amount of pressure on all these bolts when you reinstall them because if this thing starts contorting and bending because you know you tighten these up too tight it's going to let too much air into the carburetor and the priming system isn't going to work correctly so you always want to make sure that you get these in very evenly and it's not hard to do either to over tighten them just because it's a plastic box I've never really been a huge fan of this design specifically for that reason so just make sure you don't over tighten these and you should be good to go and the PCV line is on and snug you can kind of feel it start to build resistance once it starts bought and bottoming out on the plastic so you always want to put them on you know you want to kind of stop right at that point but they're nice and snug how they are right now so let's go ahead and take the mower off the truck and see if she'll give us a start now so I guess you guys can say when I do a first initial start on one of these I start them with the filter box off so I'm more or less do a dry run with them and I always do it on a paved surface such as this concrete and with the air filter off never start them on the grass you're just you're just asking for stop to get sucked into the carburetor and give you a another job to do I did already check the oil off camera I forgot to show you guys that but it's got plenty of oil in it I might give it an oil change anyways just because but I'm definitely happy with that so now I'm going to go ahead and put the filter box back on and give it a test got some grass behind the shop too and so I just replaced the air filter sorted out the blade control cable and I've also got an extra side chute I don't sell these on with the lawnmower this is just an extra one I had on hand because I don't bag any of the clippings out here there's also not much there's also not much grass out right now but we'll go ahead and do some Moen anyways I know a lot of you guys like to see that you so it does a decent enough job I just need to finish off over here not a big deal and get over there but there's a lot of rocks over there along the fence but anyways I hope you guys enjoyed this quick video on this thing and stay tuned for more you all stay classy

Channel: Hank's Garage

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Id: 1k5OYY8jwlM

Length: 16min 37sec (997 seconds)

Published: Fri May 13 2016