The Art of Restoration: A Journey with a Robin Engine

As I sat amidst my workshop, surrounded by the remnants of a once-loved engine, I couldn't help but feel a sense of nostalgia wash over me. The Robin engine, once a proud and reliable companion on many adventures, had slowly begun to lose its steam. It was time to give it a new lease on life. My trusty sidekick, Scott, was by my side as we embarked on this journey of restoration.

The first hurdle we faced was the issue with the recoil spring. The original spring had given up the ghost, and I was determined to find a suitable replacement. After scouring the depths of eBay, I stumbled upon two new old stock springs that would do the trick. With a spring in hand, our task became slightly more manageable. I carefully removed the old spring, taking care not to damage any surrounding components. The process involved disassembling the inner workings of the engine, and it was clear that this little hook and its corresponding arm were holding everything together.

With the old spring out of the way, we set about installing the new one. It was a bit of a puzzle, but after some trial and error, the new spring seemed to be a perfect fit. I stuck the arms in place, making sure they were securely fastened, before carefully covering them with a twist-on device that would keep everything in check. The result was a symphony of sounds, as we worked the engine back into life.

As the engine roared to life, it was clear that this little Robin engine had some tricks up its sleeve. We breathed new life into it, installing a fresh air filter and a new carburetor. With every twist of the choke, the engine seemed to come alive, its recoil spring working in harmony with the new parts. It was almost as if the engine had been waiting for this moment all along.

But our journey wasn't without its challenges. The biggest obstacle we faced was finding a safe place for my beloved Weimaraner dogs to roam freely. With no secure fencing or walls, I knew that they would soon grow restless and explore every nook and cranny of the workshop. It was time to take drastic measures.

The solution lay in creating a secure enclosure around the back of the workshop. A plan was hatched, and Scott was enlisted as my trusty sidekick. Together, we set about constructing a fencing system that would keep our furry friends safe and secure. The result was a beautiful, winding path that allowed the dogs to explore while keeping them contained.

In the midst of all this chaos, I couldn't help but think about the humble roller that had been brought in to help with the project. It was a small machine, but one that had proved itself to be incredibly useful. The uneven terrain and lack of traction were quickly solved by its ability to pack down and even out the surface.

As we finished up the project, I couldn't help but feel a sense of pride and accomplishment. From the moment we set eyes on the Robin engine, it was clear that this little machine had been waiting for us. With some TLC and a bit of creative problem-solving, it was transformed from a mere hunk of junk into a reliable workhorse.

And so, our journey came to an end, but not before one final farewell to the old engine. It would be heading off to its new home, where it would continue to serve with honor. For me and my crew, this had been just another day in the life of Salvage Workshop. But as I looked around at Scott and the rest of our furry friends, I knew that there was still so much more to come.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enforeign it was literally in a scrap metal tub headed for the scrap yard when I found it so let's get it unloaded thank you thank you thank you foreign foreign foreign all right check it out so what we have here is a walk behind roller for using when you're rolling you know rock ca6 you know gravel whatever the heck you're doing sand or putting down a base below you know retaining wall or for asphalt was another big thing these are used for probably mainly used for asphalt just due to its ability to really pound but this is an Ingersoll Rand sx17 with a robin ew20 gasoline engine on it so I know literally nothing about it so we're going to dive into this thing together we're going to figure out what we have here and what it's going to need to get to the point where it can be usable so I found this thing in a scrap metal bin it was literally being scrapped and so I basically was like oh can I have that and they're like yeah they wanted like 20 bucks for it or something I was like okay sold and so we lifted it out of the bin I wish I had some footage of that but it was kind of a random event it happened very quickly and I'd rather save it than have the footage so it has the ability to it's automatic so it will go forward in reverse and apparently it it is a there's a vibrator inside the roller that actually is a vibratory compactor not just a roller with weight on it so which makes it way more useful very very compact size I mean we're talking probably 28 30 inches wide it's got a hook hanger here a couple of them there couple on the other side so it could easily be slung by you know an excavator or you know some sort of a forklift or loader or whatever skid steer um the story they told me and the reason it got thrown in the scrap metal bin is that the motor's junk so I say we start with that like I told you I know nothing about it I I see stuff like you know here's the pull cord it's off so obviously nobody could even try it I couldn't try pulling it over I had no idea if it's got compression but what I do know is it's pretty small little probably five horsepower engine Maybe let's see and I don't know its year but this right there says something to the effect of 1995 to 1998 California emissions so it has to be at least a 1998 model it cannot be older than that because that date would not be here otherwise um here we go what do we got it's an ey20d 3.7 horsepower maybe at 4 000 RPM or less kilowatt I don't know it's it's uh it's metric and us Americans we have no idea how to deal with any of that so if you know how many horsepower this is leave in the comments I'd love to know probably a three and a half to five I'd say just based on its size so looks like we've got it can't be an oil filter so that's got to be a hydraulic filter okay yeah hydraulic oil right here that must be our oil dipstick see if we've got any of that threads are wet it looks like maybe it's just barely touching the tip of the stick insert your joke here and then yeah there's our spark plug so yeah this absolutely has got to be a hydraulic oil filter for the hydraulic side of things um one of these cables see this cable here is for your forward neutral reverse and I'm betting this cable is for the throttle yep throttle lever idling driving or both driving and vibrating okay so you can you can move it without the vibrator coming on um I do know that this handle basically uh allows you to have any of those detents so you can you can move the handle to different spots when you're wanting to store it or lift it or or whatever but then you can adjust how you want it for uh when you're going to operate it I mean there's like the handlebars bent I bet you that happened when they dumped it in the dumpster um some of this this uh like follow roller I would say maybe we call it a stabilizer um it's bent there it's bent there some sort of a patch on these support pieces there no big deal somebody's I don't know what they did with with the paint but there's like like different Stripes of paint like blacks and on this other side I think there's like a brown yeah like some sort of a primer across the motor I don't know if that was a marking their equipment kind of thing like some companies will do that on job sites just to see if something was messed with or moved I usually you do it on whatever contacts the ground like the roller itself because then eventually it wears off you'll see that on like dozers and stuff like that that get left on big job sites but and then I initially thought oh man great wonderful I got to find a cat for the for the fuel tank and like I was like oh no where the heck am I gonna find that cap well that's not a fuel tank fuel Tank's here this is a water tank I believe I do not know how or okay so it's right there it's empty so there's no attachment and I believe that would have been used for a machine that they would use this ruler for asphalt and so it would have had some sort of a sprayer attachment that this tank would then spray or drizzle water down on that roller to be able to um keep the asphalt from sticking to it as they're rolling it so yeah it's definitely a an awesome little unit so let's let's jump into the engine and see if we've got compression I really want to start there again like they said the engine's junk let's find out to really know how good this engine is we got to get into the to the crank here and see whether or not we've got the ability to make compression that recoil might be broken I don't know but we'll mess with that later all right what do you think the chances are we got compression in there or at least whatever okay we're not locked up okay I'm hearing something oh yeah we've got compression are you kidding did this thing get scrapped just because the pull cord broke I think they've got lots of compression huh okay well that's awesome all right well let's see I say we see if we got a spark let's find that out so I'm going to put a nut or a socket on this nut and we'll turn the engine over pull spark plug out and see if we got sparkles dang that's tight doesn't look bad it's carved up a little bit but that plug actually looks really nice foreign you look right there tell me if we've got Spark hey no spark uh oh it would help if it was on all right let's try it again come on I guess I'll just hold it I know I'm gonna get shocked but all right you look right there oh yeah we got Spark beautiful boom spark and compression all this thing needs is air and fuel and I think we can give both of those might as well pop off this air cleaner and see what it looks like foreign bad dirty but old oh yeah there's a the remnants of the pre-filter these these prefer filters they literally always turn to dust every single one and then what's this I guess that seals that or something Okay so yeah I can kind of see in there that car was not looking great but I think what we'll do is we'll put a little bit of gas down the spark plug hole put that back in we'll see if it fires a little mixed gas see if I can snake it in there oh yeah definitely flooded it foreign laughs a little more gas in there it fired but because I didn't have the the right uh clutch driven thing on it on the drill the drill stopped it yeah heck yes awesome all right well sorry guys but the motor wasn't junk they just broke the pull cord oh well all right well probably should have checked this before but see if this motor has any oil in it oh yeah perfect it's like right at the opening it's definitely black so it needs to get changed but and I'm not sure if this is the style you have to unscrew and then stick it in and then whatever it says or if it's threading in all the way and then pulling it out so I don't know do you know on these little Robin engines do I check it by pulling it out wiping it and then sticking it in not threading it in and then checking the oil or do I thread it all the way in and all the way out and then look at it because I think if I do it not based on the threads it gets me literally right at the crosshatch on that stick so yeah let me know all right what should we do next I'm kind of thinking we look in fuel tank kind of see what it we see there and then maybe go ahead on into the carburetor and try and figure out you know if that's gonna be clean or dirty so let's get a light and we'll look down in the gas tank even got the old uh strainer in there screen it's actually pretty clean can't see everywhere but see down in there most of the tank looks just like that slight bit of residue in there but all in all it's fairly clean well that's good maybe that gives me hope that the carburetor is to make it easier on that area I'm going to take this water tank anyway all right let's start pulling this carb apart it's a little dirty but I mean everything looks fairly good that line right there is so hard that it won't even budge so we're going to delete it and put a new piece on I can't even find the separation between the two of them oh man all right Rock Solid there we go now our carbs should just come right out made in Japan that's a Mikuni carb that's good those are good well made carbs everything's free Let's uh let's clean this up a little bit and then we'll take a look at it so this is our throttle so it went like that and then this spring also hooked in there like that ish so foreign foreign ER so let's pop this thing open we'll take a look all in all though it's looking pretty good although we have no idea what it looks like inside so let's open it up and we'll go from there all right looking this check out this bowl dirty in there but not terrible thank you there's our needle float seems fairly intact pretty good shape definitely uh that tube is clogged foreign on this and then we'll pop put it back together and give it a try all right I got the carb all blown out cleaned out so let's uh let's check this float make sure it's working right so just blow right through there you can hear airflow if we so what I'm doing is I'm basically just lifting this bowl or the float in the bowl up enough to see if that seat which is right in there will actually stop flow so if it'll stop air it'll stop the fluid so that's good the only thing I'm really kind of concerned about because I don't have a carb kit for this is this gasket here we'll run it we'll see what happens this uh Bowl cleaned up pretty nice so it really wasn't in that bad of shape um I've seen a lot worse so we'll go with this and find out what happens huh what do you think place your bets carb going to leak okay we'll try that I did find a number on it it's a it's a manuki 204 707 maybe 701 X 822 so everything moved free so yeah should be good to go let's try it all right so the gasket for this carburetor for the the filter side which would be this one it just disintegrated when I was cleaning this so I got to make a new one of those this is the gasket that goes on this side and I might as well make a new one of those so let's do that now I don't really want a hammer on this all right so instead of hammering this one out I'm just gonna trace it and cut it out not my favorite method but it will work we'll get that cut out and then we will put the holes in it now maybe I will Hammer these holes in foreign there we go there's our gasket do a little bit more fine-tuning and clean up a little bit and should be good to go I'll make one more for this side just a little more simple didn't have the additional holes or notches so all right so this line is hard fuel line here that we had to cut it's just Rock Solid it just snaps so let's get a piece same size foreign do a little bit of a basic cleaning here foreign s to do this is because clearly we have an oil leak somewhere and so if we can clean it up enough that once we have it running it'll make it a heck of a lot easier to spot where that oil is coming from I think it's coming from underneath this cover here something to do with the Hydraulics um although there is quite a bit of build up right here at the bottom of the engine it was kind of coming down so it could have been coming out of this breather tube possibly maybe we should get a new piece for that yeah we probably ought to put a new breather tube on it but um but we'll get as much of this out of here as we can I'm not going to pressure wash it at this time but I do want to be able to kind of see any new leaks or any existing leaks all right let's put this thing back together one thing I like to do with gaskets is kind of coat them with a little bit of Grease kind of helps uh cover any of the imperfections in the gasket or the mating surfaces and just makes it easier to disassemble later all right before we go too much further I decided to pull off the um fuel shut off and it's got like a little sediment bowl here so basically this is coming out of the tank like that and fuel goes through this shut off and then out through here there's a little sediment trap that well I haven't seen yet oh yeah glad we opened that look at this look at all that sand that's not gonna be good for it all those fairly clean so yeah basically closed open closed so I'm gonna blow this out with a little bit of air we'll make sure it's clean make sure it's free and we'll stick it back in there with our new chunk of fuel line and then we should be good to bolt this baby back up I did get the governor and the governor spring put back in so yeah we're almost there okay yeah I don't think that tube went anywhere what's that one for here's our new gasket foreign engine is all put back together now what I wanted to dive into is I want to figure out what this glued on piece of plastic is so plus there's a leak underneath this cover so I think we're going to take this Bolt a couple handle bolts and a couple bolts on the back should be able to lift this cover off we might have to take these two handle bolts off well that's broken that tab wasn't holding anything and another's up what is going on here oh that is a bolt are you kidding me oh I just have to take this one I seriously thought I had to take this whole cover off there we go all right well there we got the cover off finally so looks like there's like a a clutch or something in here probably RPM based that as it's spinning as this is spinning it's probably got weights that kick out and engage with this cover or this uh I don't know shaft probably and then in doing that when the RPM is high enough it then basically kicks on this hydraulic pump through the belt and then a shaft over to here and it looks like there's another weighted roller of some kind that probably engages with something in this side cover to engage the vibration so where it's leaking not quite sure yet but let's get some of this gunk out of here this thing really needs a pressure washer but I do not want to do that right now the other thing that's happening is this throttle cable is not wanting to move it's uh rusted in place or it's broken or something so I haven't messed with it yet looks like we got a a Daikin hydraulic pump of sorts I'm not familiar with that brand but that's our number so I'm looking through this thing over looking for kind of where the oil is leaking and I might have found it right above the hydraulic oil filter is this fitting no I don't I don't know what do you think I don't think it should be like that maybe just a a tad bit tighter so it best case it's just loose worst case it's stripped out either way we could put a peel a coil in it if it is bad I'm going to take this line off thread this in Tighter and then hopefully still be able to get this on uh we'll find out I guess definitely feel like still got some threads in there maybe pull it out and look at it oh no it's fine I think I'll put some new uh thread sealant on it clean this up a little bit probably do the same with this yeah I think it's good never seen a plastic line used like that oh well all right cool well maybe that's the leak don't know and I've always cleaned up oh wait there's a crack right there in that tube that hose well that'll do it I literally didn't notice that all right so I had taken this apart what's that coming from sprayed some of these things down with penetrating oil just to just to kind of Lube up all the moving components but I'm trying to eliminate all the weak potentials and that crack I I wonder if there's enough tube to actually come back a little past it I doubt it so I got to figure out what to use I don't know what that stuff is well this whole line is bad yeah I gotta replace that whole thing do I even try without facing that first upper line oh there's a some sort of a part number on that hose yeah there's another big crack at the bottom I'll bet you a lot of the hydraulic oils leaking right from this well I think what we'll do tonight is I was going to add some fluid a few other things I don't think we're going to do that we're just gonna get this line off let's see if I can figure something out to place this hose with if we can't I'll go from there we'll go find something tomorrow another option is Oh I thought maybe that this filter was no oil probably comes down through the tank through the filter out the hose into the pump and then returns back and dumps back in so I do need to figure something out on this so you see big old cracks a big old crack right down there and then the whole Underside is just cracking apart so gotta figure out a replacement for that probably I'll do this one too all right as far as those lines go the only thing I can find I've got this Automotive PB 550 not sure what it's for looks like an airline of some kind maybe it's not flexible enough but I have this semi-truck Air Line it's a chunky used Airline it's plenty flexible and so for this moment I already made one of them so this line here basically fits onto I stuck some caps on these for tonight here and here on these barbs and then it compresses into this nut here and so it's a compression style fitting I do not believe this is a fix I do not believe it should be done this way I only believe this is what I've got right now so I need to figure out what this line is it's got some markings on it says uh Chi Yoda ah6 6x9085 no idea what any of those measurings markings mean but I'm gonna take it home and do some Google interwebbing and figure out if I can't find something local that I could buy if I can't absolutely at least I've kind of test fit that Airline it will compress into it it actually fits really well and flexes really nicely that is probably doable for now and at least until we know how functional this machine is and that's the big thing here I'm trying not to spend any money until I find out if the guts of that roller operate the way they should because if they don't then you know we have an engine that can fire that's all we know right now we know that the engine will fire beyond that we found a hydraulic leak we found some broken lines we found some loose fittings I do know that like for instance this this throttle or this uh Ford reverse mechanism it's all free all the way through the cable but the throttle barely moves and so I've been soaking some uh penetrating oil down the cable there's this spot on the cable here that's like bulged and so I don't know if maybe the wire got out of the actual sleeve and bound up in there it will not go all the way to idling it's definitely not making its full travel and when I look here which is where it should be showing or moving um this doesn't move this throttle mechanism on the engine so absolutely worst case we disconnect the throttle there and then we manually operate it until I can figure out a fix or find a replacement but both these smaller belts look great so does the upper one I don't see any major dry rot in them there's just not a lot to go wrong with this little thing uh so the engine we're not going to call it good we're going to call it ready to try so the next step we're going to be putting fuel in the tank and then we're gonna add some hydraulic fluid figure out what we're doing about these two lines we'll get that line in I have no idea who makes that filter it says 4s01 and so obviously right now I'm not touching it we're going to leave it alone I want to bend this handle straight just because it annoys me same with this throttle handle I'll bet you a million bucks those uh those got bent when they dumped it into the the dumpster they literally just took a wheel loader and just scooped it and dumped it and I wasn't there for that part I was there for using the same wheel loader to pull it back out um but I want to see if it operates that's the goal here it's like I said it's this machine is absolutely worthless if it doesn't do what it should and I don't know if I can even get parts for that roller or that mechanism to begin with so that's why we got to start with that that's why I'm okay trying this airline in here as our temporary hydraulic line while I figure out that the actual line we need so we're going to jump into that next and we'll see what we can do as far as getting it up and running I think it should be I really have good good good thoughts on this I truly believe it's going to just fire up and run awesome especially if we sort out some of these these leaks I think some of the engine oil leaks were definitely leaking right around both there's actually two dipsticks one there and one on the other side I mean I think they did it that way so that this engine could be put on a million different things because these were these Robin engines were on all kinds of stuff I actually had a a plate compactor with a robin engine on it almost identical to this Japanese made man I'm telling you Japanese made engines from that time period were very very well made and if we get it up and running maybe we'll do a new fuel tank maybe we'll you know pretty it up put some paint on it I don't know but this point it's just putting lipstick on a pig and you know let's figure out if this pig wants to do what it's told so I went to hydraulic shop and wouldn't you know the only line they had that will work is another chunk of brake line air brake line same as what I already made that first one out of so we'll go ahead and throw this in there and we'll try it I don't know where to get braided it's like quarter inch ID maybe like 3 8 inch OD um tubing this has got to be low pressure I mean that hydraulic pump is not making a ton so we'll reuse these two fittings and then the other one is on the machine still so we'll just cut chunk there's some push this end on this end feeds down into that hole then this will push right down in there we'll screw it on so I'm going to go ahead and stick some thread sealant I know I don't need it there but Maz will do it while I'm in here it's not going to hurt anything way too much just how I like it though rather wipe it off than you know not have enough all right get that tightened we'll go put it on the machine I'm going to take this fitting off just to reseal it put some Teflon tape and some seal paste in there probably don't need to but it'll be so quick to do it right now and then later I'm not like wondering if there's a leak in that spot take the tape and I know each of these individually will do the same thing but I just prefer to do both that's how I do pretty much any Airline the air fitting and some hydraulic fittings like this one not a lot of tubes are that flexible that thing is uh and things great work it could probably use a little heat on this but I'm gonna try and do it without it oh come on now all right well it kinked on me I think I'm gonna make a little bit of a bigger one you get the idea all right let's mess with this uh recoil see if we can get it figured out so on the other side of this there's gonna be a Big Spring that uh big coil of a spring that would essentially pull the cord back in so you Loop your pull cord through this hole you can tie it into this Notch here and then knot it and then when you pull it it has these little teeth that spring out like that and then those contact the flywheel on the motor turning it over and then when it retracts it sucks those back in so should and this way we're pulling it out so this should either wind it up or it's broken in there and it's feeling like it's broken because it's not sometimes when the cord breaks you get the ability to wind this up feed the cord in put it back through tie a knot and then boom you're ready to go it's not working that way so let's take it apart see what we're working with in there all right well it doesn't look broken it looks like it came off maybe I think this little Notch there should jump into that groove right there see if we can do that put that back in there without and everything blow up on us foreign foreign I don't know what this is supposed to look like in here I know how it should work but I'm gonna mess with this some more and uh I'll bring you back when I have it broken all right after some messing around I uh I got it so it's winding up so we're gonna feed this hopefully we got enough string still I'm gonna give it a couple of wines before I feed the string in foreign all right now we'll take this tie a knot in the end such a thick pull cord rope not sure if I can get a more than just one Loop I might uh I'm gonna grab a torch we're gonna melt that a little bit foreign here and yeah foreign before we fight with that last one let's just make sure it works wait next up I want to address the throttle cable because it does not want to move very far so I'm thinking I'm going to loosen it here and try and figure out what's going on in this area because it's not throttling it's not doing the thing so I think it's bound up somewhere in the cable yeah like there's some cracking in the cable here which is how water could have gotten in not to mention these rubber boots could have been up water could have gotten in there foreign no something did break though all right got it unhooked from motor okay so the cable broke or that so it was seized up in this thing right here Wonder Bar okay well that's wonderful all right well there was absolutely no way to save that cable I was beating on it and trying to get that that cable to go through the sleeve here and then it Birds nested on me and so yeah I absolutely need a new cable for that um so it is what it is that's what happens sometimes when it sits outside this up with hydraulic fluid I've got a little bit in that container there okay we're on the stick now now we're not maybe we need more fluid than I thought I'm not even on the stick yet second I thought we were and then we're not must be filling up some of the passages down below it all right I got it perfectly at the line right there so that's full once we get this running and run it for a little while then I'll find whatever filter I need for this and we'll change out the probably one or two quarts of hydraulic fluid this whole thing has in it maybe it's more than that I don't know it probably took two of those little trays or that little cup thing I had so all right I think about the only thing that I'd like to do before we started is uh I'm not gonna mess with this lever at all but I will I want to figure out a way to adjust the throttle here it's free here so that cable was definitely the problem so I'm gonna see if I've got a throttle cable somewhere that I could just mount in here all right so here's uh my throttle cable I literally just cut the old one the sleeve on the inside was completely uh seized up so I pulled it out so now I just got this land against this bolt here it's tied back into the throttle and so I can just do it like that and I know there's gonna be a belt spin here but I don't really have any other options at the moment I need to buy a whole nother throttle throttle cable anyway but that's well at least allow me to control it now because I want I want to start it so let's uh put some fuel in it and see what happens putting in ethanol free mixed gas I would prefer their little little extra lubrication so it'll smoke a little bit more than it normally would I'm okay with that there we go see what we can do on yeah baby yeah yeah thank you foreign just no good it did not break down there it might not either well we know it runs we also know that it was running on full choke and I forgot to take the choke off that's why it wasn't throttling up for a second there I thought maybe there's something in Laura into the motor and still don't know yet so I need to get this off again put a new cord or a new uh rope in there and then we can try it again not sure oh we're leaking some gas you see right here I think that was just loose maybe I forgot to tighten that we'll go with that so at the other shop I know I have some uh pull cord and possibly even some replacement pull cords but I don't have it here so I found got some paracord and this should do it at least for now here is bringing spring and spring spring what was that thing again there it is I had to like break off the end of this before these Springs are not not easy to fix when the end hook breaks off but you don't want to heat them then they lose their elasticity broke again if this thing runs well I'd say a new recoil is uh in store I can't get them oh there goes all the little components I'm gonna again bring you back when I fix this here's what starts happening when you start trying to bend a new hook on these uh recoil springs see all these little pieces you need that tight little curl to be able to hook into this piece right here or wherever many different recoils have different different spots to hook you go to bend it foreign and you're thinking oh cool I'm getting it awesome nice you need just a little bit more right quite enough so you go do one of these ah dang it see I literally was still trying to make that a hook not just show you but they just it's just brittle it's spring steel it you know I mean it's built that way it's strong and it's One Direction you bend it past that and it'll snap so are there any tricks out there for making hooks I did try actually heating it to soften the metal it did not help it literally just softened the metal so all right let's try this again choke on if you're on we're gonna give it I'm gonna put on idle we have no full court so we're still on on here and try this did we lose spark maybe let's look right here no more Sparks we lost our Spark why did we do that see if that spark plug put something else metal in there well we got spark here we got good spark okay let's try that spark plug again could be this is broken somewhere foreign there we go all right I'm not quite sure what's going on but let's put that back in there foreign let's double check its fuel by putting some fuel in the spark plug hole we'll try and fire it up then okay if this thing fires and we know we've got a fuel issue what the heck is going on here hmm ah the things that make you go yeah I think we got plenty of compression the on off switch is on we're getting spark I put it down the throat and we're not getting fired now maybe it's an intermittent issue with that spark plug or an intermittent issue with the plug wire let's try a new plug see if I've got one all right I don't have exactly right but I do have this auto light it should work let's try it outside it first lots of sparkles right there foreign try that well maybe that spark plug was part of the issue awesome foreign okay so there is for sure still potentially the carburetor is dirty or something but it wants to move and it vibrates heck yes foreign foreign awesome awesome awesome I'm so pumped so it runs the forward and reverse function works the vibrating compactor part works there's definitely still some issues in the carburetor I either need to get a kit or I need to take it back out and clean it because it could have stuff from the this fuel tank because we didn't clean it we just looked in it so that's gonna have to be opened back up I need to get a throttle cable that's not this pair of vice grips um and then now that we've got a cot I think it's time to change the oil so we'll get that all dunked out put some new stuff in it and since it's nice and warm it's probably been running for about 10 or 15 minutes now and I just shut it off with the carburetor so I just basically turned off the fuel and let the carburetor run at least mostly dry because I know we're going to be getting into that so yeah buddy I'm excited that it runs so this thing's worth spending some time on now now we know it operates we know the engine works we just need to do some TLC to it so let's start with the oil and we'll go from there all right here's our drain for this motor foreign that was a terrible idea had to roll right through a little rust protection is what we're doing here I wasn't going to do this now but I decided this hydraulic system probably has so little oil in it that it would just make perfect sense to just change it now take this filter off then I can figure out what kind of filter I need to go get so let's pull that filter off and I got a little bit better set up here to catch the oil rather than what you saw before foreign means there might be a little water in it so probably a good thing we did this yeah there is there's some water in it I can see some so this filter housing here it had this pipe thread just threaded in there and the problem is if I thread this all the way in it literally blocks the oil passage and I don't want that to accidentally happen so I cleaned this this side is probably the one I'm going to use to we're going to install it with basically red Loctite so I'm going to get some brick cleaning we're going to clean that out try and get those threads all dry it's probably good right there so we'll let that set and seal up the other thing is the filter on this machine since this is a hydraulic system usually they have an a seal right here so there's the outer one and the inner one is basically made to keep pressure from bypassing the threads and if that happens it literally totally bypasses the filter and so therefore you're not getting the cooling I'm sorry you're not getting the protection of the filter filtering the oil as it comes through you're just getting it when whatever does go through so if it bypasses the threads of on the filter itself and filter housing your your system isn't staying as clean as it should be so obviously that's not a good thing in the long run I don't know if this is a high enough PSI unit to really have that matter any I don't think this is the original filter all it has on it says 4s01 sure looks like a Fram but there's no Fram number on it so I may try and find a specific filter for hydraulic system and see if I can get one that will have an O-ring that meets here and here um I should probably do that now so I'm probably going to go look at that I got to go pick up some oil for this as well so when I come back I'll have something to screw on here whether it's right or it's wrong I don't know but this has so little hydraulic oil in it that it would take nothing to change again so here you can see the oil hydraulic oil it's milky which is usually a sign that water is mixed in and then you see those droplets there those are water some of the brown is probably from oil that was already in this thing so but that milky color definitely came out of the machine so it's actually a really really good thing that we did this so I'm I'm happy about it plus I mean look at that there's maybe a quart maybe a quart at Best of hydraulic fluid in it so we're not wasting our time doing this there's our engine oil just dirty who knows if it's ever been changed I don't see any milky flakes in it it doesn't look like water is in it or coolant or anything well it's air cooled engine there's nothing in it that shouldn't be in it this is what I'm trying to say get it you you know come on like you get it right it's not bad it's just dirty all right let's put some oil in this old dog so we got 10 w30 the Castrol Castle brand whatever it'll be fine I found a Wix it's a 51 361. it will work and I don't know if they're supposed to be a seal on the inside on this one or not but I did find this o-ring that will if I can get it on there that will go over this fine and then we'll see if this wants to seal up well I don't see any problem with that so we're going to leave it like that foreign foreign foreign it's got like a little less curve in it now but it's good enough for the junk that I own another thing that actually shouldn't matter is this hand grip but I have a couple and I was able to get this one off and I've got there slightly different but it's pretty much the same so just like that so I'm going to do the same on the other side we're gonna take this one off even though it's still fine just to have them matching and then I'll keep these two in my drawer of things in case I need a grip or something else mortal sin for tools is to hit them with hammers but foreign good thing I have lots of tools bingo foreign ready for all the vibrations does make it look nicer if they start coming loose I'll throw some glue in the grips but for now I'm just going to leave them pushed on all right let's fire this back up turn the fuel on get my starting drill nope the wrong way just as I thought we were going to be low on hydraulic oil All Right Bingo we are right at the line perfect we'll check on that a couple more times just to make sure all right so what you saw me just doing was listening to there's some sort of a tick and I thought maybe the engine was ticking I thought maybe a bearing somewhere was going out so what you can do with any piece of metal this happens to be just a screwdriver is you put your ear to it it's kind of like a stethoscope for engines or working on stuff and you use that sound and you can start to determine exactly where the problem is and I thought because there's obviously a spinning bit there spinning bit here spinning bit there but in this mechanism there's a clutch here that engages with a shaft that runs to this and when the RPM gets high enough this clutch will then Engage The Drum and be the Engage The vibratory roller so The Tick at really low idle is the only time you can hear it really low so when you are you know accelerate increase the RPMs it goes away but it doesn't really go away the tick just gets a higher pitch and you can't quite hear it and so when I increase the RPMs I still heard the tick right here and I'm pretty sure that bearing right there is either bad or there's some sort of clutch mechanism in there that I don't know about or I haven't you know I'm not familiar with this machine at all I've never worked on one of these um so I might see what it takes to get into this and worst case scenario we replace a bearing right I mean that's not a big deal at all and I'd rather do it now before it gets bad because one thing about rollers of any kind they just beat themselves to death that's what they do and you know vibrations with any machine it essentially is very bad and causes a lot of wear and tear on a machine and so if you've ever run rollers they tend to break and when they break they break big time I don't want that to happen to this machine and so if I can isolate maybe that bearing right there is is going bad now and replace it for whatever heck it costs then in the long run I am money ahead by far plus I don't plan on using this machine in a production setting anyway so more than likely it would be fine but I just struggle with that I can't just leave things alone and I know some people can but um I don't know either way it is running mint the engine still absolutely will not will not uh totally go up all the way in RPM so we still have something going on in the carburetor but the engine itself beyond that carburetor it is running awesome when I listen to the engine when I was hearing that sound the engine just sounds as smooth as can be perfect right now I think I'm going to dig back into the carb so that we can try and get our RPMs all the way up because if we do that then we can go test it and play with it and actually see what it'll do because right now all we know is that it runs it vibrates it moves and we've done both the oils and the one filter on it so let's dive into that carburetor one more time and see if we can figure something out on them I got the carburetor off and I figure while we're in here we might as well pull the tank off and just clean it I don't know what kind of dirt or debris in there so I've already got it unbolted we'll pull it off and we'll go rinse it out all right there's a little bit of fluid left in there from the gas I put in let's let's open this up and see what it looks like it's not a lot let's take this off all right yeah we're definitely getting some dirt and debris see all those little pieces in there all that little stuff would definitely clog up a carb so we're gonna probably put this back in there and then fill it probably with some gas actual clean gas shake it and then see what it looks like afterwards cap only wants to work if it's like perfectly centered because otherwise one of the sides comes up Dent there is what threw off the geometry there all right I wiped out my Chinese container save your Chinese container guys like these are awesome for parts holding and stuff and they have a lid so you can cover stuff to keep it from getting dirty or you can organize it plus you're already paying for them anyway you might as well wash them and the lids clear so you can see through it plus this white background allows me to see when I dump this out I can tell a lot better what what's going on in there and I can see you know little dirt particles that you might not be able to see on another color it's looking pretty dang clean already problem is I wish I could put like an inline fuel filter but there is no room literally there is absolutely nowhere to put one that changing the location of carburetor or lifting the tank higher I mean there's a little bit of dirt coming out but not a lot so I'm going to filter this through a rag just to keep any of the bigger dust particles off and then we'll reuse it I'll throw it in something then it doesn't matter all right check it out I got it back together so I did clean the carburetor got that all put back on got the tank back on and everything's reassembled and we're gonna find out if it works I put the covers back on just because you know I've got hopes and dreams here so let's fire it up and see if we've got a runner oh yeah baby thank you so a lot of times I like leaving the bowl empty so essentially I just run all the gasoline out of the engine so that you know you don't have that that sitting in the carburetor so if I shut the fuel off and not just shutting it off I I feel like it makes a big difference in the long run but that's just how I do it lots of people have lots of ways well we have a runner here not only does it run but it works exactly as it should we still have no throttle here so I need to find a cable and that's this Cable is all cut up because I was trying to find where it stopped being stuck in the sleeve and so I gotta have this style on one all the way down to an open end where it goes into the linkage for the throttle on the actual Governor arm uh or actually that's not the governor arm that is just a throttle arm I still have that piece of cable kind of down here with the with the vice grip which is fine for now it's not a good long-term solution so I need to figure out how to get one of those cables they're not exactly the easiest there's tons of types they're like parachute style cables um and so I gotta find one of those this is a water tank there is no cap for it that I have so on my list of stuff to get we've got the throttle cable we've got an air filter I'm going to replace the air filter and then maybe a water tank cap that has a five inch ID inner Dimension I wanted something that would fit over this it probably fit down in there but then you'd have you know if this thing sat outside water would be sitting right in that area so maybe a outer cap or intercap something to just make that look nicer this is like I'm calling the hood and it has there's a circle hole under this and they glue this piece of plastic on here to I I don't know why but if I could find a four and three quarter inch OD little plug or something I could put that in there make it look nicer past that it doesn't need much um maybe a coat of paint maybe we you know there's a this little like anti-roll arm there's a break in the weld right here got to fix that possibly dress it up I don't know I mean maybe some new decals probably not maybe a new fuel tank honestly at this point I'm not going to get a new one it's working well if it ever really starts having issues and I'm getting tons of carburetor problems then maybe we'll get a new tank I don't want to get a new carb I could get a new carb but you can't get a New Old Stock one I think I saw one on eBay that was no Old Stock and it was like 90 or 100 bucks and all of the aftermarket Chinese ones are made I think they're like 15 20 bucks but nothing is better than the originals and so I always try and clean and use the original carburetors if I can they just are built better they work better recoil needs to be fixed I've got it put back together but I bought a spring technically actually bought two Springs on eBay from a guy I'm not sure which one I need but they were like eight bucks a piece all right so I got The Recoil spring for this I bought two there's a guy on eBay that happened to have two New Old Stock springs for Robin engines there's this big one and this little one here and then looking at it I'm pretty sure this little one's going to be the ticket bands around them to kind of hold them so I gotta pull the old one out and there's a little hook here a hook there and then this inner hook s right there grab some pliers foreign bingo just like that so we'll stick this in here cool all right now I got these little arms The Springs in them stick that there this cover goes right over the both of them it was a Twist those little uh little feet kick out little arms and they grab the crank foreign foreign right up come on fuel on choke here we go sweet even our kill switch works I've been shutting it off with the carburetor but at least we know that works let's run it back out out of fuel there too this baby runs so all we have left to do is to take it out and pack some ground with it so I've got some areas where we added some rock in the back to make some paths all right new filter for the air cleaner so this is the old one this is a brand new one it's got this inner basically piece that was completely gone in this one and it has the pre-filter so it's a Subaru actual Subaru part so I was able to get that so that goes just like that all right beautiful stick that in there that'll be our little uh cap for the water tank s yeah so for those of you that don't know I have a whole pack of Weimaraners and one of the biggest reasons you haven't seen them in many of the latest videos is I don't really have a safe place for them to be able to go outside and stay outside around the shop yeah at the other shop I have a fencing that literally encases the whole shop so no matter if we're in the shop or out of the shop if the doors are open I don't have to worry about the dogs disappearing on me and so here at this shop about the only time I can keep a dog down here is if it's inside not the door is closed secondly open the doors they will obey and they do follow but they're exploratory dogs they want to go check out everything so in the grand scheme of things the plan is to and completely encase the back and fencing or walls of some sort and once I have that done it'll be a lot easier to be able to bring them to the cage and and not worry about them taking off so but Scott's down here today so she's going to help us uh with this thing to use all right Scout right it's all high you're a good girl all right let's get going thank you foreign foreign foreign foreign okay well I think that thing did beautifully for what it is for what it weighs it packed down this little path way better than letting net gravity do it or letting nature take its course or just driving over it with stuff now it's a small roller and it's only going to do so much but I think for asphalt work or even setting up the final grade for patios and retaining walls that could be very very useful it's very even very consistent easy to control back and forth the one spot it doesn't do well is right along the edge here um it just buries itself into the dirt and kind of makes it hard to control which I mean any roller is going to do that the ground is harder and wasn't as muddy we wouldn't have that issue so I am very happy with it so far no issues with it since we've been running it perfect Rescue at an amazing price for uh what it is these are not cheap machines to buy I'm happy to have saved it from the scrap yard just one more machine rescued and saved here at Salvage Workshop so for me Scout here all my other Weimaraners I truly appreciate you checking out this video and watching the channel if you haven't there's lots more to come on the cave build if you haven't checked out all that series we completely rebuilt the building that we're in right now and I still have more content that's going to be coming out for that but from today thanks for watching I truly appreciate your time all right Scout right right right all right let's go\n"