Over the weekend I was to meet with a guy to sell a garden tractor. The gt is being repowered and the motor in it has never been ran by me.
I was told it is a good motor that ran fine when pulled.
Anyway this guy comes to my house and the very first thing he does is goes staight to the motor and starts to hand turn the flywheel. He hears a faint tic, back and forth he moves the flywheel and the tic is in the same spot. He stands up and says the crank is broken and it's worthless to him.
He then offers me about a quarter of what I was asking, saying it's just parts to him now and he would be lucky to get his money back.
Now I'm not a small engine guy, but I know enough to know the "tic" is just the normal "tic" you would hear when the motor hits TDC or the skirt on the piston hitting the cylinder. But since it's only one spot I"m leaning towards a TDC "tic". I kindly turned down his offer.
Either he was just plain ignorant to small engines or he was trying to scam me. Either way, he left emtpy handed.
The more I think about it the more I wish I would have called BS and explain to him engines with broken cranks to don't move air back and forth in and out of the spark plug hole. Plus you can feel the resistance in the motor when it's on it's compression stoke. You couldn't feel that when the plug was out.
After this I think I'm just going to finish the project and keep it.
I was told it is a good motor that ran fine when pulled.
Anyway this guy comes to my house and the very first thing he does is goes staight to the motor and starts to hand turn the flywheel. He hears a faint tic, back and forth he moves the flywheel and the tic is in the same spot. He stands up and says the crank is broken and it's worthless to him.
He then offers me about a quarter of what I was asking, saying it's just parts to him now and he would be lucky to get his money back.
Now I'm not a small engine guy, but I know enough to know the "tic" is just the normal "tic" you would hear when the motor hits TDC or the skirt on the piston hitting the cylinder. But since it's only one spot I"m leaning towards a TDC "tic". I kindly turned down his offer.
Either he was just plain ignorant to small engines or he was trying to scam me. Either way, he left emtpy handed.
The more I think about it the more I wish I would have called BS and explain to him engines with broken cranks to don't move air back and forth in and out of the spark plug hole. Plus you can feel the resistance in the motor when it's on it's compression stoke. You couldn't feel that when the plug was out.
After this I think I'm just going to finish the project and keep it.
aaaaay too small.
