Recycled Lawn Mower Engine.

For the longest time my father has had this lawnmower with a perfect engine but a decaying base so I decided to take the liberty of taking out the engine (with his permission of course.) sadly though I could not make something with the engine due to time limitations and my father wanting to keep it for something else so I will just go over the steps I took to remove the engine safely without losing any part of your body.

1 flat edged screw driver.

1 12mm ratcheting wrench. 1 30mm ratcheting wrench. 1 5/8 torque wrench. 1 5/8 socket. 1 1/2 socket. 1 torque wrench extension. 1 rag.

Although it may seem insignificant to remove the spark plug when the engine has no gas never leave anything up to chance because as long as the spark plug is still active you could lose your fingers and removing it is as simple as pulling it off its socket the spark plug is the thick wire coming from the top middle.

In this step you will need to free the starter cord which is as simple as using a ratchet wrench to unscrew the bolt keeping it in place and then its free but the wire for the safety shut off lever I had to use a flat head screw driver to pull its anchor out of the handle and it was a big pain to get out of its hold due to old age.

This is the most dangerous part (especially if you were an idiot and didn't remove the spark plug.) To remove the blade flip the lawnmower on its side to allow for you to gain easy access to remove it you would need a rag and a 1/2 torque wrench and socket with your rag hand you would push the blade the opposite direction of where your torque wrench was going and when the bolt is lose enough the blade will come off and so does most of the danger but you still have to be careful due to it still being an engine.

For this step I had to clean the gutter of all the churned up grass so I used my flat head screw driver to dig around cleaning out the gutter allowing me clear access to the bolts, and for these bolts since they were in a awkward situation I had to use an extension for my torque wrench to allow access to these places, but that wasn't the only problem for these bolts had built up extreme tension doing this the normal way wouldn't work out so I had to take a 30mm ratchet wrench to gain leverage on it to break the bolts tension which then allowed for easy sailing on the bolt (be careful to not snap the bolt or else you may be screwed.) For the last bolt I had to put the lawnmower upside down so the weight of the engine doesn't snap it, and then the engine is free once the final bolt is removed.

After I separated the engine from its base I decided that the base no longer had any value so I left it out for our metal guy to come and take it as for the engine we kept it due to it still being a pretty good engine and I put the bolts back into the slots it had in the engine now sadly I did not have enough time to use it to make something else but I did have some ideas on what you could use it for you can use it for maybe a go-kart a replacement engine incase my other lawnmower engine decided to die out or if I want to use it as a portable engine or other things that don't need to much energy but requires a reliable engine.