So my dad and I are doing some preventative maintenance on my Santa Fe to get it ready for Old Man Winter and the neighbour comes over and says his Weed Whacker won't start.
Me and my dad go over and have a look and it turns out that the whipper mechanism at the bottom is seized up and not allowing the engine to turn. We free it up, give it a pull and away she goes.
We come back to the house (were next door), and my dad reminded himself that he needed to fix my aunts Weed Whacker which is the same model. Had been sitting in the back of his van for a while.
We pull it out and there was all sorts of pieces that were taken off by the previous "Small Engine Repair" place that my aunt took it too. They told her she needed a new carb, a new priming ball, a new muffler, coil etc. With labour it was going to be over $300 to fix it.
My aunt told them to leave it, paid them $20 for looking at it and brought it to my dad.
My dad and I played with it this afternoon. Took it all apart and cleaned everything which was full of gunk.
Put it all back together and it wouldn't start. The fuel priming ball was letting air in because it cracked. We replaced it with one that we had from a seized Weed Whacker and it's running great.
So those morons at the repair shop were going to hose her for $300
My dad & I fixed it with an old part he had laying around and with some time. If we had to buy the part it would be $10 from the local store in town.
We put fresh fuel in with 2-stroke oil and some MMO and he Weed Whacked our yard with it.
Makes you go
and wonder how people could be so corrupt.
I mean if they wanted to charge my aunt $60 for fixing it plus the cost of a new priming-ball she would of paid it, but $300 she knew something was wrong...
My dad is going to get her to report them to the B.B.B.
Me and my dad go over and have a look and it turns out that the whipper mechanism at the bottom is seized up and not allowing the engine to turn. We free it up, give it a pull and away she goes.
We come back to the house (were next door), and my dad reminded himself that he needed to fix my aunts Weed Whacker which is the same model. Had been sitting in the back of his van for a while.
We pull it out and there was all sorts of pieces that were taken off by the previous "Small Engine Repair" place that my aunt took it too. They told her she needed a new carb, a new priming ball, a new muffler, coil etc. With labour it was going to be over $300 to fix it.
My aunt told them to leave it, paid them $20 for looking at it and brought it to my dad.
My dad and I played with it this afternoon. Took it all apart and cleaned everything which was full of gunk.
Put it all back together and it wouldn't start. The fuel priming ball was letting air in because it cracked. We replaced it with one that we had from a seized Weed Whacker and it's running great.
So those morons at the repair shop were going to hose her for $300
My dad & I fixed it with an old part he had laying around and with some time. If we had to buy the part it would be $10 from the local store in town.
We put fresh fuel in with 2-stroke oil and some MMO and he Weed Whacked our yard with it.
Makes you go
I mean if they wanted to charge my aunt $60 for fixing it plus the cost of a new priming-ball she would of paid it, but $300 she knew something was wrong...
My dad is going to get her to report them to the B.B.B.
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