Lenny's Small Engine Service

05/31/2026

Well yesterday was an interesting one 1st a push mowers airfilter soaking wet and full of mold the second one was a John deere lawn tractor I picked up for a full service this tractor was previously serviced by a local JD dealer well id love to have a chat with the mechanic who did it this because this kinda crap is ridiculous obviously they didn't prelube the rubber gasket on the filter and very obvious it was installed hand tight I busted 2 oil filter wrenches, the old leather belt trick wouldn't budge it, went and purchased a heavy duty wrench commonly used on big equipment like transports,farm tractors etc and it wouldn't budge in the end I had to resort to busted knuckles, the biggest flat head screwdriver in my arsenal and the largest pry bar i have along with a BFH (big F'in Hammer) to finally see some movement which had me excited like a little kid on Christmas morning so after way more hours then it should have been i was finally able to complete the service to the tractor.

05/24/2026

Another busy day had to shuffle some things around because I have to rely on mother nature for working on lawn tractors as they can't get down to the bunker sorry they'd get down there no problem just not back up. Lol. Got a few mowers done ordered more parts for some and I'm pretty sure (finger's crossed) I got the young girl's electric scooter issue figured out ordered a part so we shall see if my diagnosis was correct. And yes the Columbia in the picture is now back in action it came in spewing ALOT of smoke out the exhaust while in the early stages of doing diagnosis i discovered a spark plug that was loose and the plug wire as well then discovered the oil level way over full (no fault of the owner) worst dipstick ive seen for trying to see the oil level. Pumped out a bunch of oil replaced the spark plug with a good brand kept running it in short increments as she was pretty smokey trying to burn off the oil in the exhaust.

05/23/2026

Because im not scared to take on something different sometimes. This was dropped off by a regular customer her daughter's not very cheap electric scooter just stopped working and has an error code. If I can get this young girls scooter back in action that'll be another new thing to my repertoire.

05/23/2026

Purchased this today on special request for a customer wanting a rwd with my redneck add on to extra traction wheels.

05/23/2026

The list keeps growing plus a Columbia lawn tractor needing diagnosis and repair if not to costly. And 3 more tractors lined up to come in.

05/16/2026

Oh boy this is a gooder it reminds me of the very first job I tried as a young fella it was on an old tiller my dad and mom had it ending up going to someone else in a million pieces in a 5 gallon bucket this John deere came in with everything in the orange bag with a conversation of please help I'm in to deep. It happens let's see if I can get everything back in action and the machine running again.

05/10/2026

Busy day in the bunker all these plus 1 mower i forgot to take pictures of and 1 stihl leaf blower that required me to order a new part that broke on me while trying to swap the old carb for the new one. All of them suffered from a bad case of the no GoGo's.

05/02/2026