I couldn’t start my lawnmower yesterday. I don’t know anything about lawnmowers, really, but I figured if I took it apart I could maybe see what was wrong. I took it apart and couldn’t see what was wrong. When my wife asked me to show her, I reassembled it, but then it unexpectedly started up fine. Lawn-mowing accomplished!
I didn’t do anything…honestly I have no idea. I guess the lawnmower equivalent of “did you try turning it off and turning it on again” is “did you try taking it apart and putting it back together”!
Most lawn mowers can be fixed with a sort of hand grenade solution of replacing the entire carburetor. You can get typical purchase a preassembled carbs for a bit more than a rebuild kit. It’s usually two bolts, the throtlled connector and the gas line.
This assumes you’re ruled out obvious things like the spark plug which is even cheaper and easier to replace or clogged gas line which is how I got my current lawn mower.
Funny part there is it was my next door neighbor’s discarded lawn mower and they’ve asked to borrow it a couple times since.
Oh nice; that’s good to know! Someone here was kind enough to point out that it was probably a clogged gas line with my fiddling accidentally unclogged.