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How To Adjust The Valves On An OHV Lawn Mower Engine

 

If your lawn mower is running bad or hard to start, adjusting the valves can make a

world of difference in how it starts and runs. The steps below will show you how to do

this on small engines with Overhead Valves (OHV)

 

Things you'll need:

  • Set Of Allen Wrenches
  • Set Of Feeler Gauges
  • Spark Plug Socket & Ratchet
  • The Valve Specs For Your Engine

 

1 This article pertains to a four stroke engine with Overhead Valves. First you

need to remove the valve cover and take the spark plug out of the engine. You

will need to be able to turn the flywheel either by hand, by the starter pull rope,

or use the starter. Put your thumb in the spark plug hole and turn the flywheel

until you feel pressure push your thumb out and this is the compression stroke.

Both valves should be closed. Now find top dead center on the piston.(TDC)

Stick a screwdriver in the spark plug hole until you feel the piston and slowly turn the

flywheel until the piston reaches the top and go about 1/4" past top dead

center.

2 Now you can check the valve clearances on both the intake valve and the

exhaust valve. You will need the valve clearance specs for your particular

engine. To adjust you must loosen the valve adjuster locks and then turn the

adjusting nut while you have the right feeler gauge in between the rocker arm

and the valve stem. You should feel a slight drag on the feeler gauge for the

proper set.

3 Most Briggs engines normally set at 003 to 005 on the intake and 005 to 007 on

the exhaust. The engine must be cold when setting the valves. You must hold the

adjuster while tightening the locking nut back down. Then check with the feeler

gauge again. Once you have them set properly then replace the valve cover

and spark plug and you should be good to go.

Tips To Remember:

Set the valve clearances when the engine is cold.

 Valve clearances are critical for an engine to run properly.

 Check the torque specs on your engine when tightening the adjuster locks.


How To Grow Bigger And Better Tomato Plants

Follow these few simple steps and grow garden tomato plants much bigger than average that bear bigger and better tomatoes. What type of tomato plants you buy means a lot in the size of your tomatoes so keep that in mind when purchasing your plants. The basis behind this technique is all in how you water the plants that makes a world of difference in their growth pattern.

Instructions

Things you'll need:

Post Hole Diggers

3 or 4 inch PVC Pipe

Drill and bit

Good rich soil

Potting Soil

Plant Food

Tomato Cages

1 For each tomato plant that you want to use this method for, you will need a

piece of 3 or 4 inch PVC pipe about 3 feet long. Take your drill and a 1/4" bit

and bore your first hole about 1 inch from the end of the pipe and then measure up

the pipe about 8 to 12 inches and bore a hole there. You need a line of holes bored about

1 inch apart all the way around the pipe Then move down 1 inch towards the end of the

pipe where your first hole is and repeat the procedure until you have 8 to 12 lines of holes

all the way around that end of the pipe.This end with the holes will go in the ground.

PVC Watering Pipe Hole Configuration

2 Take your post hole diggers and dig the hole where your tomato plants are

going about one foot wide and 12 to 18 inches deep. If you are digging in good

rich soil you can use the same dirt but mix it with potting soil and chicken

manure to backfill your hole. Good soft and rich dirt is what you want.

3 Now you want to dig the hole for your three inch PVC pipe just off to one side of your plant

hole and just deep enough to where your top holes are just below ground level,

which should make your pipe hole about ten or twelve inches deep. The idea is

you water your garden tomato plants through the pipe and the water comes out

the holes, right at and just below the plants roots.

Tomato Plant Hole Configuration

4 Set your pipe in the hole just beside your tomato plants hole and fill in around it

with the same dirt mixture. Set your plant in the bigger hole. Water the plant

through the pipe. The water will fill the pipe then slowly drain out the holes

delivering the water down deep at the roots every time. There should be about

two feet of pipe sticking up out of the ground.

5 Once the tomato plants start growing good set your wire tomato cages around

them for protection and support. Mix some miracle grow and water with that

mixture every couple of weeks or so. An old man, which was a good friend of

mine, taught me this method. Believe it or not, I have watched him step up on a

ladder to pick his tomatoes.


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