Is Your Lawn Mower or Small Engine Battery Dead? If your lawn mower battery won’t hold a charge, verify connections are clean and tight first, then connect it to the charger. If it isn’t fully charged within 8 hours, your battery is dead and you’ll need to replace it. ...
Step 1- Disconnect the spark plug lead. Clean the area around the spark plug to avoid getting debris in the combustion chamber when you remove the plug. Step 2- Remove the spark plug using a spark plug socket. Step 3- Inspect the spark plug for very stubborn deposits, or for cracked po...
Browse our tutorial on how to winterize a STIHL lawn mower, including tips on cleaning, lubricating, and storing lawn mowers for the winter.
Do not recharge by wrapping wire around magnets and zapping with a car battery — this will demagnetize them. The magneto on your lawnmower operates by using the power from the engine to generate alternate currents and send them to the spark plug. The unit itself consists of a number of pa...
batteries. Unlike your car battery, which is a shallow-cycle battery, deep-cycle batteries can discharge more of their stored energy while still maintaining long life. Car batteries discharge a large current for a very short time — to start your car — and are then immediately recharged as ...
Clean and inspect the engine, stabilize the fuel and replace fuel filters, disconnect and lubricate battery terminals, check all fluids and hoses, and add an antifreeze solution to the coolant system. Find a cover for your tractor and store it in a temperature-controlled area with full portable...
In 2019, Toyota began outfitting the Prius Prime with solar battery panels on its roof, hood, and rear hatch door. Altogether, those panels are slated to provide up to 27.6 miles (44.4 kilometers) of electric power daily, says Green Car Reports. Two other European companies have plans to...
You don’t want to make the switch to a battery mower but aren’t thrilled with the lower build quality of some of the new gas mowers you’ve seen at your local home center. You don’t want to send a lawnmower to the landfill if it still has life in it. Overview of the Restorat...
The stator on a riding mower is located on top of the engine below the flywheel. As the flywheel turns over the top of the stator, electricity is created and sent back to the battery to keep it charged sufficiently. In mowers that run a 12-volt electrical system, for example, the stato...
Place wooden blocks on either side of the mower deck and then lower the deck onto the blocks. Disconnect the rods that hold the deck onto the bottom of the lawn tractor by removing the cotter pins. Pull the drive belt off the pulley on the motor and then slide the deck out from under...