Good job, bent some sheet metal to patch the holes and use for another year. That motor runs good. Thanks

Ha...you have such a great channel. I love lawn mowers for some odd reason and i enjoy watching them serviced and repaired. You do such an excellent job on both ur channels. Great job!!

I’d probably fill the rust holes with 2-part epoxy… very strong stuff 💪 The Compression on that old engine was impressive

I have a Toro in the same shape . Same engine . Runs and works great . Waiting for a donor deck .

Save the engine and blade assembly. Ditch the rest. You know why. :)

I would’ve taken that nice Tecumseh engine off, saved the wheels, blade and rear gearbox and some other hardware then scrapped the deck. A compromised deck like that is not safe to use and should be taken out of service. I’d look for another Lawnboy or Toro deck in good shape to put that engine on. These were great mowers and they generally last a good long time but when grass is left stuck to the deck this is what happens. Great video, thanks!

Putting lubricant on them wheels does help a bunch. I use regular bearing grease. It's think and heavy and lasts all summer. . And as far as putting it on the curb if the deck gets worse. I can't bring myself to throw nothing away. There are a lot of good parts there for other projects. I actually have a small lawn mower junkyard. Thank you for sharing. 👍👍

Thank you so much for making all of these amazing content. Great job as always. Can’t wait for the next video. 🙏👍🙏👍🙏👍I really enjoy watching and learning from you. Have a bless weekend.

I would of power washed the deck underside but at a lower pressure. Good job getting that Tecumseh engine going again. soon they will be in the Library of congress next to the Clinton Engine.

Great work, I recently got a Lawn Boy for free, it has the older style deck with the offset front wheel but is powered by a 4 stroke Tecumseh engine and is rear wheel drive self propelled. All of the accessories were with it too, the side discharge plate, bagging plate, mulching plate which is already installed on the mower, 2 original bags and the hangers for the bags. The engine already ran and the mower is in good shape, all I had to do was replace the self-propelled cable because it was broken. It's amazing what people give away, keep up the great work!

Thank you for these excellent tips ! I have the same model Lawn Boy and it, too, won't start. After checking for spark (OK) and fuel (OK) I was getting frustrated but then your video gave me some more ideas for troubleshooting. Will try them today !

You might be able to find one of these in the scrap yard and use it’s deck, or you could at least salvage the engine and swap it with a mower that has a blown engine. This engine seems to be well taken care of and it still has plenty of life in it

Good old Tecumseh!

Thanks for the vid! The lever arm direction came in handy during reassembly!

Yes I agree with you HG. Good video

Nice video. That tecumseh engine still runs just like mine. I recently done an engine swap about a month ago swapping a Briggs intek 6.75 on a lawnboy 10682 deck, the tecumseh still runs with no problems, I just wanted to use the Briggs so that the tecumseh engine can last a little longer, the Briggs engine that’s on there now still runs great. BTW the Briggs engine was from the cub cadet deck.

Good Morning Home Garage

very good videos you learn a lot👍

Lawn Boy Mowers used to be a quality product. I have one of the commercial series. But even the homeowner models came with a magnesium deck and a 2 stroke engine. Back some years ago Toro lawn equipment wanted to enter into the Big Box Store market. They didn't want to cheapen the Toro mower or have their name on a mower sold there so they bought Lawn Boy from OMC and totally cheapened the brand. My Lawn boy is going on 20 years old and it still looks and runs like new. I've got a brand new in the box short block for it should the original engine wear out.

Patch the deck with some green duct tape and it will be good to go another season.

I would try to patch the holes in the deck. Maybe some epoxy would work. I don't have to worry about this with my mower because the deck is cast aluminum. Thanks for the video.

Great video thanks mate thank you for taking the time to make this video

Clean deck and then use rust reformer spray paint. Then a coat of protection. That would delay the deck from further degradation.

I wouldn't want to use that mower as rusted as that deck is I would be afraid of rocks and other debris getting thrown through the deck and hurting me or some one else.

I probably wouldn't patch the deck either, but no way that engine would go to the curb when the deck finally gives up. Ha ha I'm cheap or is that thrifty, or as my better half says, a hoarder! Until she needs something repaired and I have a spare! 😃🤪😅

I would cut the rust out of it,weld Metal plates into it & respray it but that's just me because I have a 2 stroke Victa lawnmower which is like that,I'm going to restore it & repair the deck or find another good one if I can. My current lawnmower is a 3 horsepower Briggs and Stratton powered Supa Swift Lawnmower which my auntie gave to me in 2008 as someone gave it to her with a broken pull cord on it which I just reattached the handle to. The deck is aluminium so I don't have to worry about rust :- kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rNGeYLBpyrrQoJc.html I would keep that lawnboy motor in the video for another lawnmower because its compression appears to be really good,it looks like a Tecumseh engine & it has a far higher compression reading than my Briggs and Stratton lawnmower engine does which is 75 PSI & I've replaced the piston rings & relapped the valves into their seats, they suggest doing a cylinder leakdown test on their engines since they don't release any official compression figures. It was something like 70 PSI before I broke the rings !

On the 85 rider before I got another deck shell I just mixed resin with hardener with regular fiberglass insulation and filled the deck holes with it till I had more fiberglass than steel. Then I got another deck. Still going with a little smoke. Thanks and Blessings

I would have cleaned it and used jb weld on the deck holes and rusty spots jb weld works very well

Thank you for the help! My issue was the green wire (neutral) disconnected it and boom it started np. Now I have to figure out if I need to connect it back 🤔

I love old 2 CYCLE LAWN MOWERS THEY LAST FOREVER/ IF YOU TAKE CARE OF THEM

Yo yo from the 🇬🇧 Good job shame about the deck..

The rust might be holding it together but it’s an older mower so I would give it a shot. Now, if it’s a customers mower I would ask them first

I usually wash my mower when I finish the lawns

I just picked one of these for free tonight. Hopefully I can get it going. One the mower in the video I would have patched with some Steel epoxy putty or JB Weld type stuff.

Big lawn boy fan here. A good metal fab shop can cut out the rested area and replace it with a patch. The mower seems to be in great shape with 135lbs of compression. Ok I am biased but the heck with the cost. Speaking for myself only, I would save it.

Where's you get all this knowledge for fixing small engines?

My Poulan,only 2016 model, washed deck after each use,stored inside, has swiss cheese deck. Changed engine oil every season,but it will outlast deck...Nothing built during last few years is worth anything...

Have you removed the blade driver assembly from one these lawnboys or a toro? Any good tips or tricks?

Also it looks like somebody drill holes on the side of the lawn mower

I have the same lawn mower and my gas cap is broken and I can't seem to find a replacement, went to Home Depot or Lowe's. None of them carry it. Can you help and also not sure of the model number.

Since you didnot buy it it runs this stick some Jb Weld on the holes Paint it keep the train moving It runs good does the job

How much do you think you could get this mower if you sold it after fixing it.

with the deck as it is, i would have probably removed the engine and all. scraped the deck and kept the rest for spare/replacement parts once I found the engine to be preforming well

Hey so may not be doable but i have this same mower im trying to get running. It starts but then chokes itself out. Is there any way you could pop the hood off and show me the choke connectors on top of the carb? I may be missing a connector but not quite sure.

I have the same mower. For the life of me, I cannot figure out how to get a new belt on the rear pulley because of the belt guard. I’m missing something here! Do you happen to have any info on this? Even a model number for this mower would be helpful at this point.

I have 2 mowers that look exactly like this one but they are a diffrent brand I fixed one and the other one my grandpa bought 20 years ago and it is low on compression (it needs piston rings) and for the other one i need a carburetor (the carb looks identical to yours) where i can find these parts ? very nice video btw

When did lawn boy go to a 4 cycle engine????

Great review. You cannot emphasize enough the importance of maintaining your mower annually. My mowers are all mulchers. You have to clean the underside of the mower at least once a year by scraping and/or power washing. It will cut and mulch properly. On some models you can rinse the underside with water through a port on the deck.

What oil do you use?

Can you show us what equipment you use to take care of your yard?

Hello, I have the lawn mower it does not start but if I unplug the kill switch it starts then shuts off right away.. Please let me know what I can do. Thank you for your time.

The engine would be salvageable for another project. I would keep my eyes out for another mower with a good deck and bad engine.

Can you make a video on how to adjust the kill switch. I have the same mower and it has been a work horse. It will start occasionally now but most of the times it just won’t fire off.

I get up at 3:40 AM and go to bed at 6:00 PM

I have a lawnboy and it will not start what would be the best thing to do

Hi I broke the piece for brake cable There are two cables running one on the top and one on the bottom I broke the bottom one how do I fix that I tried to find the piece but parts people say it's very old model. Any advice

for me yep i would clean it to bare metal and weld up that deck as it,s a very easy repair most times if they are just small holes and very simple fix that one and if the engine is good yep re-use it and your laughing.

I would take the engine off and save it for a future motor swap.

No, Not only would I be concerned that removing the grass clippings from the deck would further weaken it but I also wouldn’t have wasted any time or effort on that deck. As a matter of fact, had the deck required ANY new part purchases at all, I would have just removed the motor, stripped any good parts off the deck and handle bars, and just scrapped the deck. In my opinion, a mower like this would really only be good parts for another good deck, as I would be concerned that someone might eventually be hurt trying to force a badly rust deteriorated deck back into service. That said, the effort here was worth it to determine that your engine is good.

lawnmowers should come with a spare wheel like cars come with a spare tire

I love to watch youtube

how old is this mower

cool I guess 25 or 30 years old

Won't start after replacing air filter

Throw the lawn boy in the trash they are junk lawn mowers I used to have one I found it in somebody's trash long time ago it ran good for a little while then died and I said trash you go

pay more and get an aluminum deck mower. my toro super recycler from 2000 the deck is still like new. engine getting a little tired, but i can find engines all the time. Decks, not so much

That deck is in horrible shape. I wouldnt use it to mow.

That machine is a pos. Will run really nice for about 10 minutes. Then dies and won't start again til like tomorrow

Back in the 90s and early 2000s, when some of us were still mowing lawns, we didn’t make videos when our lawnmowers were not working to get attention. We just fixed them and mowed our lawns.