We had a John Deere mower back in the seventies and it was tough as nails. Heavy I do remember, ours did not have the drive like this one which would have been nice. We were tougher back then though, maybe. Awesome.
We just had 4 inches of SNOW dumped on us Tuesday!! Crazy weather here. Excellent fix my Good Friend! Some people just don't take care of their stuff. It's the whole lead a horse to water thing. Cheers! Sean~
Those look like they share a lot of design and parts with the commercial mowers. I have a similar JD commercial mower with the I/C Quantum on it. The wheels on mine should be beefier. Good job Bruce. I was betting that whole carb has going to be going for the ultrasonic swim.
As a Road Runner for work...I respect the cable ingenuity. Necessity is the mother of invention. The issue those temp repairs that are too good become permanent 🙃. Mower look like it was attacked by a dog! By nature mulching blades should have teeth. More aggressive the wing is at the end is for lift...for bagging. Honda mulching blades have no teeth just more oval and square at the end. Baffled why to this day. Great vid as always!
@@BrucesShop Well the winter time was rough on me ..I have been laid up some after working on the car The kid I hired never helped me on the last part drilling and chiseling out rivets on the ball joints Thank God that job is done Have rear struts to do but they are easy ..Hard part is crawling on the ground or being on my knees
OLD MAN here Bruce just saying nice repair job. At EP we bring back faded plastic colour either with a spray clear coat paint application or by applying Revive It wood flooring re finisher with a brush seems to work fine and does not leave an oily residue.
Hi Bruce, Not sure if you’ve seen it but I’ve added a video to my channel on how I tilt mowers on my lift table to work under the deck. Works better with some than others. I lift the table about 6 inches before rotating the mower backwards but the height of the deck varies with different mowers. I do steady the mower with one hand while I scrape the deck. Cheers, Jim
How's she goin'? Nice repair on the old John Deere!!! It sure looked like it was ridden hard and put away wet eh!! Good find on the carb jet. Always interesting to watch your repairs!! Take care!!
@@BrucesShop No problem Bruce!!! It takes a long time to make a video and then edit it, and post it, then respond to comments. So when I see guys like you, who have a big channels, respond to my comments and then even watch and comment on my videos, well that just amazes me!!!
I have one like this. It's a side-bagger. The bag is a pain in the ass to install, so I just put a mulching blade on it. Mine smokes a lot too. I think the rings are worn out, but it still runs. Mine has the weird mounted wheels on the front
Good mate.. hope your all doing ok.. I now drill out the jets as standard.. saves going back to them later.. that blade was a crazy one.. was the smoke just bad oil and been ripped up you think
Bruce, I have a decent looking 6.75hp briggs with auto choke on it that I cleaned the carb started up decent then started running rough and quit? Oil looks brand new but won’t start up and run decent? Key isn’t sheared. Makes an air sound coming out of carb🤔
Well the air sound coming out of the carb is most likely an intake valve that isn't closing all the way or opening at the wrong time. If you have an intake valve that isn't closing you can see the valves if you take off the small door behind the muffler. You can take a valve gap measurement at that time as well. You can also remove the head and if you can spin the valve with your fingers (in circles) it needs to be ground and lapped. I hate to bring up all the bad but there is a cam gear that has a plastic interface that can slip in the motor as well. Start with the simplest problem and work your way to the hardest. The valve door is the easiest thing to check. Valve movement and valve lash in there.
Hey Bruce, As far as I am concerned, YOU ARE THE MAN!! I have a question, I am working on an old Craftsman 6.5 push mower. I have put a new carburetor on it, cleaned the housing throughly, new primer pump, new gasket but no gas will shoot into the carb when I push the primer pump. Any suggestions will be appreciated . Alabama Bill
Well sometimes the filter - primer housing warps over time. I would try a second primer gasket. I you have compressed air just shoot TINY amount of air into the little hole in the carb edge and if gas shoot up out of the emulsion tube you need a better or double gasket.
In 2006 I bought a Snapper Easyline SP21 which is the exact same thing as this John Deere except the Deere is green and the Snapper is red. I have no idea why Deere marketed a rebadged Snapper but they did. It was marketed as a low end Snapper with a Simplicity transmission & not the bullet proof traditional Snapper transmission. When these were first marketed Simplicity had owned Snapper before B&S bought them out. I still have the thing but rarely use it. It can bag but you must install the bagging chute which is the Snapper tunnel design. The transmission is really twitchy and requires constant adjustment on the handle as you mow. The biggest issue I had and others who have mentioned it on mower blogs is the rear wheels break off after a couple of years of regular use. Since the rear wheels are secured with cheap cotter pins, the wheels are not aligned correctly and have too much play, so the wheel hubs break off. I replaced four rear wheels over the years for this cheap design failure. When new, the mower was half the price of a traditional Snapper. Clearly this was not a successful Snapper design and unfortunately for John Deere, them too.
JD mowers. I had recently repaired a JS26 mower. Self-propelled, and nice. REDONE the carb.....still didn't go. Would run on carb cleaner, but not gas. If i left it sit overnight, would start once on gas, run for about 10 seconds, die. REPLACED original carb ( very very cheap chinese ones, i think ) with a Hippo brand, from off of Amazon. (25 $ Canadian) Installed it from factory, and wow. Started first pull. THOSE ORIGINAL JD carbs, are junk. They use a rubber insert, to seal the float needle, to housing. All the jets, eustachian tube holes, were open on the original. Anyway......starts first time now,.... Thanks, Bruces' Shop. !
I sold one like this before. It has a tube deal that goes to the bag. Kinda big and clumsy. I wonder if the torch trick would have worked on that cover ? Take care my friend
@@BrucesShop yes I figured you made this video before mine. And of course you would have to take the cover off to do the torch trick but I know you know that already. You're more safety conscious than me.......not that I would run a torch next to a gas tank LOL
@@BrucesShop that's right were my arm muscle was really sore to move around and those pulled strings lasted for 4 months any movement or picking something up was painful to do on the same arm And keeping pressure on it and heat made it feel a ton better
Hey Bruce, I have a mower that doesn`t run, its in pieces on my garage floor. Can I box it up and send it to you? lol Just kidding, I am attempting to resurrect a 1973 18" snapper mower. I did up a couple Quantums last summer but haven`t sold them yet.
Well, A trapper and a small engine mechanic. I have a couple of quantum's waiting for some love. I could use you for a day or 2. Good to hear from you sir.
No primer, but it uses the same gasket. If it doesn't leak, why break the seal? That air filter was letting enough dirty air into the carb. I am surprised that the carb did not need the full Kleen-Flo treatment.
@@atibbs14 It is just a seal. You never know what an old piece of equipment will need when the fiddle fairy's were in there. I said primer seal out of habit.
Well I am always seeing something different and trying to make the videos interesting. I went to your channel ans saw you have not made a video. I will watch if you do and be careful of what i say in the comments. thanks for watching.
@@BrucesShop I have no interest in posting videos. I've worked at shops including small engine, fleet (school) vans & buses, John Deere Industrial (the yellow tractors) equipment rental and automotive shops for 42 years starting in November of 1973. By the way, it's not a John Deere mower, just made for John Deere possibly by American Yard Products. Not sure by who.
What cable Is he pinching? He is standing in front of it when he clamps it. The big fat one? Sorry noob to lawn mowers. Literally my first one ever. Won’t start. So I’m just fixing it with every video I can find to see if it starts working.
Wish MY dad was around and I’d call him. This guy doesn’t prime. I’m 2nd owner. I m stumped. How does the fuel get to starter without priming? I don’t get it.
You don't need to get fuel to the starter. A starter turns the engine. You need to get fuel to th carburator. Think about a squirt bottle. That is what a carburstor does to the fuel. OK This one has an automatic choke. Take the air filter off. There will see a 3/4 inch hole going into the engine (and carb) Squirt or drain some gas into that hole. About a tablespoon is a LOT. Tilt the mower back so it drains inside the hole. Then try to start the mower. It should frun for about 4 seconds. If it doesn't fire you may have a coil (spark) issue.
Very nice job Bruce. Keep up the great work. I'M doing good and healing up.
Good for you Bob. I have been thinking about you.
We had a John Deere mower back in the seventies and it was tough as nails. Heavy I do remember, ours did not have the drive like this one which would have been nice. We were tougher back then though, maybe. Awesome.
Thanks Steve.
That blade curvature looks a lot like the ones on the Klippo's we have here. Great mulching blade. Great video as always Bruce
Thanks Claus
We just had 4 inches of SNOW dumped on us Tuesday!! Crazy weather here. Excellent fix my Good Friend! Some people just don't take care of their stuff. It's the whole lead a horse to water thing. Cheers! Sean~
Right on. It was just the quantum engine that kept me going. I guess this is a snapper copy. ??? It has a weird grass bag.
Great content as always,, Bruce, stay safe, stay well
Thanks Martin.
Bruce takes a can that says "extreme danger" and sprays it all over his bare hands. Canadians are tough!
I know............. This is an older video I have a wash station and also use gloves more now.
Thanks for your help🏴👍it helped me
Perfect.
Gotta love those Quantum’s!!!
You know I do.
Nice find Bruce, did a great job as always. I think you should have opened a shop somewhere by you.
Well I am busy enough. Thanks for the compliment.
Those look like they share a lot of design and parts with the commercial mowers. I have a similar JD commercial mower with the I/C Quantum on it. The wheels on mine should be beefier. Good job Bruce. I was betting that whole carb has going to be going for the ultrasonic swim.
Thanks Mr. Haney
As a Road Runner for work...I respect the cable ingenuity. Necessity is the mother of invention. The issue those temp repairs that are too good become permanent 🙃. Mower look like it was attacked by a dog!
By nature mulching blades should have teeth. More aggressive the wing is at the end is for lift...for bagging.
Honda mulching blades have no teeth just more oval and square at the end. Baffled why to this day.
Great vid as always!
You do a good job with your videos. Thanks
I appreciate that!
It was your video on the Micro drill bits that inspired me to get a set to rebuild my Honda carb
Cool Jim. How are you making out these days.
@@BrucesShop Well the winter time was rough on me ..I have been laid up some after working on the car The kid I hired never helped me on the last part drilling and chiseling out rivets on the ball joints Thank God that job is done Have rear struts to do but they are easy ..Hard part is crawling on the ground or being on my knees
@@not2fast4u2c I understand that.
OLD MAN here Bruce just saying nice repair job. At EP we bring back faded plastic colour either with a spray clear coat paint application or by applying Revive It wood flooring re finisher with a brush seems to work fine and does not leave an oily residue.
Right. I have ow seen Dave Ackerman use a propane torch to lightly melt the surface. Clear coat is a good idea as well as trans fluid attracts dust.
Hi Bruce,
Not sure if you’ve seen it but I’ve added a video to my channel on how I tilt mowers on my lift table to work under the deck. Works better with some than others. I lift the table about 6 inches before rotating the mower backwards but the height of the deck varies with different mowers. I do steady the mower with one hand while I scrape the deck.
Cheers, Jim
I will check it out JIm thanks
How's she goin'? Nice repair on the old John Deere!!! It sure looked like it was ridden hard and put away wet eh!! Good find on the carb jet. Always interesting to watch your repairs!! Take care!!
Thanks again Grampie. If I missed one of your videos this week i have been crazy busy.
@@BrucesShop No problem Bruce!!! It takes a long time to make a video and then edit it, and post it, then respond to comments. So when I see guys like you, who have a big channels, respond to my comments and then even watch and comment on my videos, well that just amazes me!!!
@@GrampiesWorkshop I wonder how big a channel has to get before a person stops responding to comments.
@@BrucesShop I hope I never find out!!!
I have one like this. It's a side-bagger. The bag is a pain in the ass to install, so I just put a mulching blade on it. Mine smokes a lot too. I think the rings are worn out, but it still runs. Mine has the weird mounted wheels on the front
Right I get it. thanks for the comment.
Good mate.. hope your all doing ok.. I now drill out the jets as standard.. saves going back to them later.. that blade was a crazy one.. was the smoke just bad oil and been ripped up you think
Yes. on the oil. I am doing jet reaming about 1/2 the time. It is mostly varnish on the older stuff. This is the million dollar brass bolt again.
Bruce, I have a decent looking 6.75hp briggs with auto choke on it that I cleaned the carb started up decent then started running rough and quit? Oil looks brand new but won’t start up and run decent? Key isn’t sheared. Makes an air sound coming out of carb🤔
Well the air sound coming out of the carb is most likely an intake valve that isn't closing all the way or opening at the wrong time. If you have an intake valve that isn't closing you can see the valves if you take off the small door behind the muffler. You can take a valve gap measurement at that time as well. You can also remove the head and if you can spin the valve with your fingers (in circles) it needs to be ground and lapped. I hate to bring up all the bad but there is a cam gear that has a plastic interface that can slip in the motor as well. Start with the simplest problem and work your way to the hardest. The valve door is the easiest thing to check. Valve movement and valve lash in there.
Good job Bruce!!!
Thanks once again sir.
Good job Bruce!
Thanks Bob. Good to hear from you.
Hey Bruce,
As far as I am concerned, YOU ARE THE MAN!! I have a question, I am working on an old Craftsman 6.5 push mower. I have put a new carburetor on it, cleaned the housing throughly, new primer pump, new gasket but no gas will shoot into the carb when I push the primer pump. Any suggestions will be appreciated .
Alabama Bill
Well sometimes the filter - primer housing warps over time. I would try a second primer gasket. I you have compressed air just shoot TINY amount of air into the little hole in the carb edge and if gas shoot up out of the emulsion tube you need a better or double gasket.
@@BrucesShop
Thanks Bruce, for a while there I thought maybe I had broken a rule by asking a question. I will give that a try.
Alabama Bill
03/21/1942
@@billyb.9533 A war time baby 79 years old?? . Wow.
In 2006 I bought a Snapper Easyline SP21 which is the exact same thing as this John Deere except the Deere is green and the Snapper is red. I have no idea why Deere marketed a rebadged Snapper but they did. It was marketed as a low end Snapper with a Simplicity transmission & not the bullet proof traditional Snapper transmission. When these were first marketed Simplicity had owned Snapper before B&S bought them out. I still have the thing but rarely use it. It can bag but you must install the bagging chute which is the Snapper tunnel design. The transmission is really twitchy and requires constant adjustment on the handle as you mow. The biggest issue I had and others who have mentioned it on mower blogs is the rear wheels break off after a couple of years of regular use. Since the rear wheels are secured with cheap cotter pins, the wheels are not aligned correctly and have too much play, so the wheel hubs break off. I replaced four rear wheels over the years for this cheap design failure. When new, the mower was half the price of a traditional Snapper. Clearly this was not a successful Snapper design and unfortunately for John Deere, them too.
I agree. It doesn't hold up to either company's standard.
@@BrucesShop Glad to see Frank made it through another Canadian winter!!
@@JCT442 He gets to hide inside.
Thanks Bruce
Well Thank you!!!!
I've seen similar Craftsman mowers but that blade and adapter look like a Snapper I worked on recently so maybe made by them(owned by B&S now)
I think it is a snapper.
Great . getting that john deere back up . needed alot of maintenance on that one
I stop cable fixed with an electrical connector. wow
@@BrucesShop that was a 1st seeing that setup
You did say transmission fluid to clean up the plastic yes? Came out great ! I have a similar mulch / side chute body all aluminum! NICE !
Dave from Dave's Small Engine Revival uses a propane torch to get the colour back into faded plastic. i want to try that.
@@BrucesShop This I gotta see !
noticed the short sleeves on spring have arrived have a great week.
Wow. It snowed the day after i published this.
Wonder if the knobs were squirrel treats...Looked like the mower lived outside.
No I think banging on a concrete wall or fence.
JD mowers. I had recently repaired a JS26 mower. Self-propelled, and nice. REDONE the carb.....still didn't go. Would run on carb cleaner, but not gas. If i left it sit overnight, would start once on gas, run for about 10 seconds, die. REPLACED original carb ( very very cheap chinese ones, i think ) with a Hippo brand, from off of Amazon. (25 $ Canadian) Installed it from factory, and wow. Started first pull. THOSE ORIGINAL JD carbs, are junk. They use a rubber insert, to seal the float needle, to housing. All the jets, eustachian tube holes, were open on the original. Anyway......starts first time now,.... Thanks, Bruces' Shop. !
That is so cool
I sold one like this before. It has a tube deal that goes to the bag. Kinda big and clumsy. I wonder if the torch trick would have worked on that cover ? Take care my friend
Have you seen the comments below on that?? This was scheduled video if you now what I mean.
@@BrucesShop yes I figured you made this video before mine. And of course you would have to take the cover off to do the torch trick but I know you know that already. You're more safety conscious than me.......not that I would run a torch next to a gas tank LOL
@@davessmallenginerevival2847 I would. I welded one once had had to run for a fire extinguisher. LOL
I wish people wasn’t so rough on lawnmowers nice fix on the lawnmower
I just did another one where it was treated roughly. I am not sure if I will publish the video.
Are you going to show how to change the oil?
This video is the same engine type. (Briggs Quantum) Just over 5 minutes in I change the oil.
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Those Quantum are my favorite to work on , in my over 50+ years of messing with mowers, great job Bruce as alway, what going on with your left arm
Just a little arthritis.
@@BrucesShop that's right were my arm muscle was really sore to move around and those pulled strings lasted for 4 months any movement or picking something up was painful to do on the same arm
And keeping pressure on it and heat made it feel a ton better
That old brake cable was TOAST! I'm surprised that "repair" lasted more than 2 minutes.
What a poor attempt at a repair on that cable. Much better now.
good job bruce
Thanks Francis
Amazing how some people will take a good machine and turn it into a POS
I know. i was purchased by the current owner this way.
Hey Bruce, I have a mower that doesn`t run, its in pieces on my garage floor. Can I box it up and send it to you? lol Just kidding, I am attempting to resurrect a 1973 18" snapper mower. I did up a couple Quantums last summer but haven`t sold them yet.
Well, A trapper and a small engine mechanic. I have a couple of quantum's waiting for some love. I could use you for a day or 2. Good to hear from you sir.
Can I see operating process. Just got a used machine.
See comment below
Do you need to worry about “primer seals” on an auto choke?
No primer, but it uses the same gasket. If it doesn't leak, why break the seal? That air filter was letting enough dirty air into the carb. I am surprised that the carb did not need the full Kleen-Flo treatment.
@@haneyoakie14 looks like our man ended up removing the filter housing in the end anyway.
@@atibbs14 I thought he just took to bowl & jet off without removing the whole carburetor.
@@haneyoakie14 may have but the filter housing is off at 14:45 of the video before the re-start.
@@atibbs14 It is just a seal. You never know what an old piece of equipment will need when the fiddle fairy's were in there. I said primer seal out of habit.
Gumby Hoosier'd ???? Bruce , do you have one that refers to Pokey ?
This one has been fed Pokey Pies .....?
My wife had to explain the Gumby and Pokey. LOL
12:50 "That is a weird blade..." It's called a "mulching blade" used without the bagger. You should have known.
Well I am always seeing something different and trying to make the videos interesting. I went to your channel ans saw you have not made a video. I will watch if you do and be careful of what i say in the comments. thanks for watching.
@@BrucesShop I have no interest in posting videos. I've worked at shops including small engine, fleet (school) vans & buses, John Deere Industrial (the yellow tractors) equipment rental and automotive shops for 42 years starting in November of 1973. By the way, it's not a John Deere mower, just made for John Deere possibly by American Yard Products. Not sure by who.
@@47485ksc Yes it is a Snapper clone. Thanks for the great chat. I enjoyed it. No issues. see you on the next one.
I think you need to put a piece of plexi in front of the camera to avoid any spray onto your equipment.
That is one tough camera actually.
What cable Is he pinching? He is standing in front of it when he clamps it. The big fat one? Sorry noob to lawn mowers. Literally my first one ever. Won’t start. So I’m just fixing it with every video I can find to see if it starts working.
I am not sure which cable you are mentioning. Probably the stop cable. I am sure I replace the stop cable. I usuually make one up from older spares.
lil different looking from my 94 yardman commercial
Is it a quantum?
@@BrucesShop yeah its got the commercial briggs
A minor fight is like a tiff with your wife ? Give her a glass of wine and let the good times roll.
Good idea.
I wasted $175.00 on one of those just to find out the shaft was bent
That happens. sad for your luck on it.
@@BrucesShop yeah I've not bought another john deere push mower after that
Missed the money shot on cleaning the jet out. Camera too low.
This is not an easy thing to by yourself.
enjoy it but to many adds
I understand that.
@@BrucesShop hi no reflection on you bruce it is the gready you tube, by the way haw do you like the new plastic briggs carbs
keep up the goodwork
2,000th
YEAH!!! Thanks for watching.
I can’t figure out how to start mine.
See the above long comment. You can repy if you like when you try this
Wish MY dad was around and I’d call him. This guy doesn’t prime. I’m 2nd owner. I m stumped. How does the fuel get to starter without priming? I don’t get it.
You don't need to get fuel to the starter. A starter turns the engine. You need to get fuel to th carburator. Think about a squirt bottle. That is what a carburstor does to the fuel. OK This one has an automatic choke. Take the air filter off. There will see a 3/4 inch hole going into the engine (and carb) Squirt or drain some gas into that hole. About a tablespoon is a LOT. Tilt the mower back so it drains inside the hole. Then try to start the mower. It should frun for about 4 seconds. If it doesn't fire you may have a coil (spark) issue.
Hi Bruce hope your having a good day.do you own stock in carb. Cleaning company? Lol
I like the stuff it is true.