Re: I blew up my lawn mower! Did you ever blow up anything unusual?
I blew an old Briggs & Stratton engine up like that when I was a kid. My dad was famous for hauling home old lawn mowers, motorcycles, and such. When I was 10, I started to earn money by mowing yards...but I had to build my own lawn mower first. Dad wouldn't let me use the family mower. Well, I took a few of Dad's junk mowers and made one good one out of them. Once I got it running, I decided to up the revs by playing with the carb. By the time I wa done, I had that baby singing...for about 15 seconds. ;) I was pushing the mower across the yard to see how it would cut when it threw the rod through the side of the block. It threw it so hard that it jerked the handle right out of my hands. My dad came out of the house laughing his ass off. Turns out he watched me tune it and was surprised it lasted as long as it did. It was a learning esperience. I pulled a motor off another junk mower and countinued on smartly.
A year later, my frined aquired an old Honda Trail 70 motorcycle. It had carb issues, but was otherwise a good bike. We tried fixing the carb, but couldn't get it to work. To us kids the carb looked like a lawn mower carb, so off to the house I go for a carb off of one of the junk Tecumseh mowers dad had laying around. We installed it on the Honda (had to jury rig the throttle) and attempted to start it. When it would start with the kick starter, we attepmted to push start it. When it started to run, the carb caught fire! Thank God we were near a dirt lot. We took handfuls of dirt to put it out. My friend bought a used Honda carb from somebody and it fixed the problem. How in the hell I survived childhood with some of the crap I did is a wonder...
I blew an old Briggs & Stratton engine up like that when I was a kid. My dad was famous for hauling home old lawn mowers, motorcycles, and such. When I was 10, I started to earn money by mowing yards...but I had to build my own lawn mower first. Dad wouldn't let me use the family mower. Well, I took a few of Dad's junk mowers and made one good one out of them. Once I got it running, I decided to up the revs by playing with the carb. By the time I wa done, I had that baby singing...for about 15 seconds. ;) I was pushing the mower across the yard to see how it would cut when it threw the rod through the side of the block. It threw it so hard that it jerked the handle right out of my hands. My dad came out of the house laughing his ass off. Turns out he watched me tune it and was surprised it lasted as long as it did. It was a learning esperience. I pulled a motor off another junk mower and countinued on smartly.
A year later, my frined aquired an old Honda Trail 70 motorcycle. It had carb issues, but was otherwise a good bike. We tried fixing the carb, but couldn't get it to work. To us kids the carb looked like a lawn mower carb, so off to the house I go for a carb off of one of the junk Tecumseh mowers dad had laying around. We installed it on the Honda (had to jury rig the throttle) and attempted to start it. When it would start with the kick starter, we attepmted to push start it. When it started to run, the carb caught fire! Thank God we were near a dirt lot. We took handfuls of dirt to put it out. My friend bought a used Honda carb from somebody and it fixed the problem. How in the hell I survived childhood with some of the crap I did is a wonder...
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