You'll NEVER Guess What We Found In This Engine - How?

In another installment of "Lawn Mower Mysteries & Oddities", Taryl goes over another true mystery. How did this get inside this engine? Detective Taryl thinks he has it figured out in another educational video. Now There's Your Dinner!!

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[TarylFixesAll]

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[GrandadTinkerer]

The little incidental sounds make these videos even funnier.
Never fails to make me smile. Thank you Sir!

[cptyler]

Now all of us would love to see you actually start preparing that engine now that you found the issue... And if you could make a video on getting this engine repair we would love it

[mrpotatoheadracing]

Piston was like "whew, that was a close one!"

[MattC-eoep]

Taryl is always entertaining AND informative. Love the channel!! 😂

[jeffkulessa]

I have seen the screw from the throttle plate get stuck in the valve in Briggs&Stratton Quantum once. There was no damage, I even reused it to hold the throttle plate back on.
Please keep bringing on the great videos!

[asimplehorseman]

Thanks guys!! I have one of those motors in my JD317. Ironically it came to me with a 2 inch bolt behind the flywheel and it was grounding the stater coils to the block. "Mystery" solved. That's how I got a 317 for 300 bucks with snow plow and tiller and mower deck. By the way, I whined on here a while back about that motor backfiring. Turned out it had "long thread" plugs in it. Put short thread plugs in and it runs great now. You guys are the best... "Old guy out!!"

[wilmarbarrick]

Fluffy put it there. He got tired of of all the noise and destruction of his home. He's quite the engineer. 🐀

[djbecker]

I've a roughly similar failure.

Honda and clone engines use a metal wing nut to hold down the air filter, and a plastic wing nut to hold down the filter cover. The problem engine had only the plastic nut holding down both the filter and cover. That's not unusual, it's one of those "extra" parts, so it barely was worth noting.

It had failed by locking up, preventing it from being pull started. But it would sometimes free itself after being moved. It may have also had a broken pull cord, as that's. a common follow-on problem. ("Just needs a new pull cord" is right up there with "ran when parked" and "just needs a new battery".)

After checking that that the valves weren't jammed, I dove right in by opening the case. I expected to find something something jamming the crank, splash fin, or gears. I've seen a bent compression release mechanism, slipped timing gears and broken chunks of metal that would cause the same type of intermittent jams. Nothing, just very clean engine internals and everything freely turning. I sealed it back up, put it upright, and pulled again. This time there was grinding rather than a jam. I pulled off the fan shroud and found the culprit -- the missing metal wing nut was stuck to the flywheel magnet. Depending on the last position and jarring, it would sometime hide behind the flywheel or pivot out and jam against the case or magneto. Once it jammed, it would stay jammed until moving it somewhere for service would allow the flywheel to move backwards enough for it to pivot out of the way.

[RaleysSmallEngines]

Dang it. Nope, I've never seen that happen before. Great video Taryl

[johnb]

That's some good detective work there.

[toms]

So entertaining, I don't realize how much I am learning! Also, I've been getting a few strange looks with that "I Bleed Oil & Gas" hat - and I like it!

[mitchz.]

Detective Taryl...you are AWESOME, man!!!!

[geneo]

You really know your shite !! Should've shown how you fixed it and got it running again !! ! Love it when you holler !!!

[bryanpedlow]

Well, I've seen a lot of those engines and I've never seen anything like that. Wow, keep up the good work. Love your videos Thx.Bry

[doglegjake]

I have learned a lot from this man and I'm very thankful

[Tech-tipsntricks]

I had a jd L130:with 23 horse Kohler, ingest a ball bearing…similar deal….worked its way into cylinder and beat the crap out of valves and piston, until cylinder quit firing…fought with Deere engineering trying to get customer warranty but they said not used in engine, about a year later had another L130 and a 23 horse kohler that I was servicing, different customer, found ball bearing loose in air cleaner, come to find out there is a port in air cleaner for a hose that Deere machines don’t use and instead they block port with this ball bearing and they work loose and fall out ! Since then I put a dab of ultra black on end of port if ball bearing is still present, a lot of them are gone ! Love the channel Tarryl

[johnwhite]

Great detective work, Taryl!
You are Awesome!

[jeffreypeterson]

Man this is cool stuff Taryl Dactal you rock !! just one question where do you get the spects to know how much the torque is to tighten down that head ?

[jeffclark]

Detective Taryle, been there seen stuff like that, thumbs up, great video, ive found little washers dropped down the intake