wristpin wrote:Another instant expert of the internet age who have never spent part of their working lives learning how to do things properly!
grunt wrote:You have to know how something works, before you can figure out why it don't.
I think that the point we are trying to get across here.
Personally since I started working on small engines professionally I have seen a lot DYIer screw ups where they You Tubed a procedure. There are many good videos out there but they are just as many bad ones. Some are just how to Red Neck repair something.
As said you must at least understand how something should work but can start to find out why it don't. Yes these engine are fairly simple but they are still complicated at times. They are not our grandfather's engines anymore. Many of engines I get that DYIer have worked on just had parts thrown at them when it was only a simple adjustment or bad connection that was the problem.
I had fellow a few years ago that had a rider that would not start. He had replaced the starter, the stator, the ignition coil, starter solenoid, and he was wanting a new carburetor even though the engine wasn't even cranking. I manage to talk him into bringing in the riding mower. Believe or not it was a bad wire terminal at the ignition switch. He did think I was kinda stupid though as he wanted me to pay him all of the new parts that he brought from someone else. Sorry I don't do that.
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