I note a lot of various questions and discussions about holes in engines and some parts not working and valves not moving and just stuff, way beyond Phils original question. What I can suggest is if you cannot technically do the work yourself, and you have identified and evaluated “Cost vs replacement”, and are not real excited about cosmetics, and just really need to keep your tractor or lawnmower shell that hold the motor, there are a ton of used lawn mowers and riding mowers out there with good engines for sale at decent prices. Ya gotta find one for parts that the engine is not the part with a problem and not overpay for it. There are actually, in many parts of the country, there is a glut on this kind of stuff. If you are, or can be patient, and have the time to wait, something will show up.
I have a more mature Garmin Nuvi 755 and on my last update was instructed to install an SD card, which I did!I performed the update, and tried to use it could not enter location addresses and the road vs directions was not working right! I kept fiddling, reading , doing research and discovered that the recommendations of Garmin, that SD cards be formatted in FAT32 on a Google search! Took out the SD card and checked it and it was formatted in Exfat! Anyway formatted the SD card in FAT32 format and started all over again and instead of updating, there is a way on Garmin Express to reload all maps! It took about an hour but when done, all updates were installed and my mature Garmin Nuvi 755 will continue to guide me! It works perfect now! Ya would think when Garmin instructions tell ya to install a SD card, the instruction would include Format information also! Oh well!
Lawn mowers or any small engine not starting after sitting all winter, tends to fall into two categories! An engine needs two things to run, 1) Fuel and 2) ignition (or spark) how you shut down your gas engine for winter helps with spring start up! Fuel does become stale, it may still work but why mess around for a partial tank of fuel. Let the engine run the tank dry. After it cools down, check the oil and top it off to the mark. Next, remove the spark plug and check it for gap. Most small engines are .028 to .030 ! Now, back to it won’t start! Same two things, 1) Fuel and 2) Spark! Remove the plug and connect the bottom screw part with a wire to someplace on the engine. Plug in the high tension wire from the mower and get the whole thing in a dark place and pull on the rope so that you can visually see the spark plug is working right. When you pull the rope or hit the starter button, with the engine turning over, the high voltage should be jumping the spark gap! If that checks out, put the plug back in...
Some Lawn mower engines will seize pretty quickly on low oil, and that is actually a good thing. Before going beserk, on replacement, Try this first. First, fill the engine with oil to the right level, Next, remove the spark plug wire connection, and then the spark plug, then tip the lawn mower up to the spark plug hole is straight up. fill the spark plug hole with diesel, or some kind of penetrating oil, lubricant and let the mower sit for a while. I like a half hour. Next, with the lubricating fluid still in the piston hole, get hold of the mower blade (with gloves on) and start trying to move it back and forth. This may take some effort. If lubricant comes out the exhaust or carb, do your best to turn the blade to move the piston all the way down in the cylinder. Next, add more diesel or penetrating lubricant to the spark plug hole and give it another half hour. Then start rotating the Blade again and keep doing it, Lubricant will spill out, and it will be messy, so make sure plenty of rags and don’t do...
The 32 GIG ssd is soldered in, and must stay! However, what I have discovered thru the web, is that Amazon, (and other sellers) sell an SSD that fits in the OPEN SLOT of the Lenovo 110S, and I have done that to my 110S and reloaded win 10 to the added “Silicon Power 120GB M55 M.2 2280 SSD With R/W Up To 550MB/s (SLC Cache for Speed Boost) SATA III Internal Solid State Drive for Ultrabooks and Tablets (SP120GBSS3M55M28)” by making it the C: drive and making the original 32GIG drive the D: drive. Others may be able to help you if you want to save what is on your 110S before you do this, I did not, hence Microsoft reloading win 10 cleaned both drives, formatted them and reloaded my activated win 10. Hope this helps And I am adding a WARNING ———Also, be aware, not all Lenovo 110's have the extra slot. Before buying anything based on my comments, remove the rear cover and validate there is a slot for the added SSD!!!!!
Got the Toro out this spring, same type as being discussed, 6.5 hp, self propelled, and after going thru all of the cleaning suggestions of jets, carb, tank and so on and making sure the bulb was priming right, on reassembly and testing, without the air filter installed, same problem, runs the prime dry and stops running. I did an inspection of the filter element that I had cleaned, last fall, and found one of the paper edge was stuck out under the rubber edges. I fixed that, and I can only venture, that some how, the filter works in conjunction with the fuel flow as there is a rubber hose that runs to the crankcase, and that has to pump and suck as the piston action occurs. I took the filter and reshaped the side with the paper under the gasket so that the entire filter seals and bingo, put it all back together, did a 3 pump prime and the engine started first pull, and kept running. Let me just say, I did all of the suggested remedies on the fuel flow issue and this last one did it for me. So which one...
Excellent concise instructions with photos!!