You'll NEVER GUESS What This Tool Does

In another installment of "Lawn Mower Mysteries & Oddities", Taryl goes over this strange tool. What was it for? Who made it? He'll give you the skinny on this skinny tool in this here video. So sit back and strap in for another informative video from your pals at Grass Rats Garage! And as always.... There's Your Dinner!!!
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[@bobsmith1101]

Loved my Lawnboy 21" .

[@walterbordett2023]

Interesting oddity. Thanks, Taryl.

[@Tommyr]

Well that's slicker than greased owl sh!t! Pretty smart tool!

[@karlschwab6437]

Couldn't a long armed (shaft) hex key (Allen wrench) of appropriate diameter have been used instead?

[@Carder97]

Love these midweek uploads!!

[@craigbraswell4269]

Love me some taryl vids!

[@frankvucolo6249]

Im thinking that the notch milled into the end is there so, when working blind with the muffkin on, you have some feel for reference when you are through the hole. If making one, you really don’t need the roll pin. A shallow dimple would do for reference. Maybe a drop of orange paint in it.

[@ClickinChicken]

Sure, that's a hydro-spanner, Han Solo used that on the Falcon!

[@RobertSherwood-n6y]

Love the old style beer neon

[@williamwelch7]

Thanks Taryl

[@WherestheKaboom-g2p]

Eddie Murphy (A.K.A. Axel Foley) Ain't falling for no banana 🍌🍌 in the tailpipe! 😂

[@MrTheHillfolk]

I'd take that over the short I just came from called yellow jackets in the exhaust 😂😂

[@mjg263]

Good stuff! You’re right bout the older 2 cycle erl running kinda dirty, I remember LB’s smoking like crazy way back when I was a kid!

[@scotthousman7807]

I used lawnboy brand 2 cycle oil back in the day and it still clogged up the ports. It used to come in 6 pack cans with pull tops. That was a long time ago

[@davie66fly]

Looks like a proctocology exam tool!👀

[@paullanier8280]

Great info , Mr. Dactyl. You are a well informed tool !! Just know that I've made odd application tools for five decades and men have watched me in total confusion 😂

[@troy3052]

Memory lane wow!! I remember my grandfather buying one of these I wanna say 1989 or 90. My dad giving him crap for buying a bent piece of metal 😅

[@HobbyMotorDK]

I'm in the 3rd group - now back to the video 🤣

[@thesmallwoodlot433]

Looks like a spring puller

[@PaRoughandTumble]

That's what I thought

[@thesmallwoodlot433]

@@PaRoughandTumble well if it started as an “exhaust port gunk remover” it can now be repurposed to stretch tension springs!

[@taterbites]

An old worn out riding mower has some of those on them!

[@ENGINERESCUE86]

When you said it was for a specific mower, I guessed Lawn-Boy, but I had no idea on its purpose. Neat tool!

[@calholli]

Video starts at 4:25

[@Biokemist-o3k]

That is an awesome tool!! It is not because it takes less time you are charging because of the knowledge. It is just like a locksmith...

[@dannylinc6247]

Right, mechanic makes inventions that save time and solve problems. If his pay gets cut because of it, he is the one getting "ripped off". He works to make a profit, Not to give everything away. Some days there's hardly anything to work on, and during the growing season he can't work fast enough. His savings carries him, or the place ends up closing up and he goes and gets a job at a bigger company. "The worker is worth his wages" the good book says. Think about it. The bartender in the tavern gets a jar full of money at the end of the night just for handing you a beer with the cap removed , and remembering which kind, and keeping your whistle wet. How can you tip if your invention means you cut the price? Then you gotta buy flowers for Mrs mechanic, so she doesn't shave you bald when you pass out in your chair, tired and broke.

[@thenatureofthenashes1362]

Don’t need the roll pin - just put an orientation mark on it with a file or a magic marker

[@pl747]

I want to order that foot kick starter.

[@beachbums2008]

Tarly it's a back scratcher 😅

[@wallyhandyman]

Learned something new thanks taryl i've seen them before just never knew what it was for.

[@adeeponionbrah]

The voice over for LMMAO using Slipper chills me to the bone. What could be next?

[@baratono]

That's brilliant! I always just used a screwdriver...

[@benbogg5430]

I remember having a lawn-boy mower back in the late 80's which would build up carbon on the ports. Disassembled that thing so many times i could do it in my sleep. Changed 2-cycle oil brand and the issue went away. Not saying it was the oil but once changed no more carbon build up. Wish I had that tool back then for sure.

[@brytonkenney1507]

It's a key for a secret door lol😅

[@leonardguccini3276]

I do not know about you but I got in the box last night it was great you should try it

[@NovaBill6264]

Awesome video God Bless you and your family Amen

[@loufaiella3354]

A nice oddity. I had one (found on the trash) that wasnt working well I put it aside and waited a day or so and it hit me that the exhust ports were clogged. They were and after a cleaning it worked great Nice tool. You dont need a roll pin for orientation, a grind mark will suffice.

[@DarrenFinley]

Magazine may have been, Popular Mechanic's! They used to have all kinds of ad in there. Think thats where i saw plans for a personal submarine you could purchase and build yourself, boy i wanted one of those things lol.🤷‍♂️🙆‍♂️🙋‍♂️

[@chrisbrown7362]

@@DarrenFinley I know that one!!! "You, too, can build a midget submarine using your Mother's washing machine and a few simple tools found around the home!"

[@AvaPxiaO]

that's not my dinner sticking steel into steel bores and ports ..... I'll just make a fuzzy aluminum one, but first I need a LawnBoy 2strokem engine

[@johnb5519]

Is it the gizmo for adjusting the governor tension?

[@keithschneider6348]

The exhaust on most of them have screens that can plug up. So take it apart an clean it or throw it out. Back in the day someone must be a braineack thought mufflers were causing fires. I've never seen a exhaust do that. So it pluggy up from that law. Just like lean slow speed jets bs.

[@JohnSmith-pl2bk]

Old-fashioned diesels (No DPF or DEF) certainly can cause grass fires through flaming carbon particles in the exhaust gases. Our 4wd club absolutely forbade any vehicle that was diesel from club trips if there was no fine stainless steel wire gauze "sock" on the end of the tailpipe to catch the flaming hot chunks of carbon before they ignited the farmer's grass when we cruised through to the rough areas/tracks. I was amazed to see the size of the chucks that break off and get caught in the gauze... That gauze "sifts" them and deposits them harmlessly on the ground. It's even worth while putting such a sock on a gasoline 4wd... "No sir, I can't have started any fires...look at my exhaust tip"... Just don't park your catalytic converter equipped vehicle in long dry grass......

[@nikspanakis]

Darn! My guess was it's a pick pocket tool... Oh wait!

[@franklinkopecky9644]

JC WHITNEY CATALOG ???

[@rawbsworld6604]

0:42 in but before I continue I’m gonna go out on a limb and say , is it Ronnie? Everyone one knows what a tool he is ! 😆😂 🤷‍♂️ ✌️🤙

[@WarrenFloyd-xr2js]

I love this, I used to use 3 oz of Coleman lighter fluid, with 1 oz of 2 stroke oil,worked great,looked like the mower was on fire, cleaned the mufkin.mufkun too

[@leeross7896]

is it a supercharger for a 2-stroke?

[@WalterHildahl]

Your brother Feryl teeth are almost exactally like yours. You both must of gone to the same dentist .

[@80SWoods]

I’m going to make one! I have 13 Lawn Boys.

[@jeffclark2725]

I can count on one hand how many Lawnboy mowers i have worked on in several years

[@brianfloyd8033]

How much did it cost back then

[@SunriseLAW]

Unusual weed pipe, wake and bake.

[@frankfillioe6173]

Had me stumped, but I never owned a lawnboy.

[@sandmanbub]

Whoop!!!

[@nojhampton]

Gee thanks Gary Collins. I am from the UK, i have never owned a lawnboy, or seen one. In fact I don't even have a lawn mower BUT I can now sleep well safely in the knowledge that I could buy a lawnboy, clog it right up, and in a liqadey split, have it chouching again. Goodbye im off to find my bits 'n' bobs 😂

[@buzzedalldrink9131]

We need more Faryl appearances!! and that guy that looks like Uncle Andy from Andy2 He is cool!!

[@alfwok]

I wonder if the cut in the end is there to put a piece of rubber tubing or something to make it a bit wider so it can hit the walls of those exhaust holes. Wire brush? It'd probably fall off and get stuck in there...

[@chrisbrown7362]

Yay, I'm so smart! I'm so smart! I'm in Group 3 (or is it Group W?) that is baffled by this tool but at around :03:23, when he said it was for a pacific lawn mower, I said Lawn Boy and I was right! This is expecially exciting because when I hear "lawn mower" I think walk-behind but Taryl often means riding lawn tractor. So I'm handicapped and I still got it right! Now to continue the video and find out what this tool is And what it's for! (I love it when there's a quiz!!)

[@BigBlock-wf3mh]

Specific, not pacific.

[@JohnSmith-pl2bk]

@@BigBlock-wf3mh Depends which Coast you are near...?

[@ejs6097]

A day is lost that I cant learn something new. Thanks Taryl! :)

[@budsodalsky]

I LOVE IT! You call us " pea brains!" LOLOLOL! All through this video, there was many opportunities to say "that's what she said" Lawn boy was a mystery and oddity in and of itself!

[@HoopleBogart]

Us tools gotta stick together.

[@paulleblanc4653]

My neighbour had a low power lawn boy. Cleaned carb, no improvement, removed the muffler for no reason and discovered plugged exaust holes. I was 13 years old

[@stevezwemer1262]

Definitely a specialty tool AKA GrassRat Back Scratcher for Back Scratch Fever.

[@clayson187]

Only three of your videos have been applicable to my yard tractor, but I’ve watched almost all of them. 😂

[@ronpaul8872]

I rebuit my Lawn Boy for $9.00. They were kind of hoakie but very simple.

[@LawnMowersThingsThatMakeNoise]

Barry'd deep within corners of decaying mower shops

[@magicone9327]

The undercut serves to give an edge that will enhance the cutting of the carbon deposits.

[@scotthousman7807]

Yup I used a wooden dowl. Guilty

[@jberry1982]

Hey taryl is that an old paging USA beeper clipped on your hat lol

[@keithrayeski6417]

You are a man of integrity and honesty Taryl!! Very cool tool!

[@jberry1982]

Looks like an old tie rod off a Murray riding mower lol

[@doctorhfuhruhurr4380]

It's for thick shakes and the pin is to rest on the edge of the cup.

[@bobwalton4879]

Hey dude!!! In a recent video, Maybe a contact, maybe a friend? Chick Mechanic got an oddity started. A Stihl chainsaw/weed eater. The weed eater shaft was mounted on a /chain saw motor. It weighed as much as an Elephant, and the user must have been Paul Bunyan. The issue was she wanted to restore this to an original chainsaw!!! You might be the only Human on this planet that could locate an original attaching module with the bar to complete her dream!!! I don't know this Lady personally, just trying to connect the Dots? Have a wonderful and blessed week. Robert

[@leerusch7392]

Chickanic.

[@fair2middlin]

She will find one, and knowing the channel, it will probably be given to her

[@patricklarkin9666]

I've watched her as well. She is great!

[@MrTheHillfolk]

​@@leerusch7392 Thanks for reminding me, I'm like why haven't I seen any of her vids lately ,I'm subbed. Thanks to KZbin for unsubbing me,so I redubbed.

[@leerusch7392]

@@MrTheHillfolk No problem.

[@Saved_The_Day]

I Love This Channel!!

[@PSN7373]

My wife loves it lol

[@powderriver2424]

Well that is interesting, my old man had that tool hanging on a pegboard in the garage never payed attention either, but the only reason I remember is that I threw it away when I cleaned out the garage after my parents passed away. We had an old Lawnboy when I was a kid I hated that mower.

[@JohnSmith-pl2bk]

I was made the home and garden lawn-mowing manager at the age of 8 years... and given the Antipodes equivalent of a Lawn Boy mower with the OMC engine and an alloy deck. I used that mower for 45 years before giving it (still working) to a workmate to cut his lawns. I used to replace the spark plug every 7 years and rotate the reeds every 14.... used the best 2 stroke mix oil possible...finally ending up with Stihl synthetic @ 50:1... I think I scraped out the carbon once early on..... then never again as it just didn't build up when decent 2 stoke oils were mixed at the "correct" ratio which got "leaner" with the oil as time progressed and the oil quality also got better. What did you hate about it?

[@beachbums2008]

Make it out of copper round stick. Easier to machine it and won't scratch the cylinder bore. Coming from a retired journeyman machinist of 40 years😊

[@lumaduecharles32]

Can you fix a Honda EU7000IS Its worked for almost 5 months?????? The Honda repair center told me to come and pick up my EU7000IS because it CANT be fixed. IF IT CANT BE FIXED IT HAS TO BE REPLACED????? Did I miss something????? Do not buy a Honda eu7000 they are trash and CANT BE FIXED???????

[@Traderjoe]

Would the carbon then going in the muffkin start clogging it up? Or does it blow right through?

[@cj7fun579]

Very strange maintenance procedure, but if it works That's great. There are so many odd and weird tools that were made back 60+ years ago that I see at tractor shows and swap meets. I have a small file that says FO MO CO on it and can't figure out what era or application it belongs, but of course it was from Ford Motor Company.

[@ChaChiVooDoo]

In the early 2000's when I worked at a Lawn Boy dealer we still got lots of those old 2 strokes in for tune ups and decarbon jobs. We would just remove the muffler anyways because they always needed to be burned out with an acetylene torch so while it was off we cleaned the ports as well. They burned real dirty at 32:1 and clogged exhausts were very common even if you ran Lawn Boys low ash oil.

[@jamesconn7311]

Damn Taryl !! is that The Charles Atlas muscle course?? I was thinkin the Lawn Boys were two strokes , I still have the memory in my head , of my Dad taking a hammer to his Lawn Boy & beating it to little bitty pieces & his last words were , Crank Now you Sonaofbitch !! 1960's

[@mikesenginesandadventures]

Interesting as usual. That new shop is looking very nice. So much room to organize everything. I love it.

[@ralphwatten2426]

I've got a mid 60's Lawnboy with a D-400 engine that I've bragged about on this channel a couple of times. Oh I said it started on the first or second pull, it had great power, it was wonderful. I hit a piece of firewood that fell off the stack and bent the crank. I pulled the motor off and pulled the cylinder off. It had a stuck top ring on a 2 ring piston and two of the 3 exhaust ports were plugged. I wonder what a good running Lawn Boy D-400 motor is like? Thanks Taryl. P.S. I guess you're supposed to clean those ports out. I had that mower for 40 years and never cleaned them once.

[@rcf8367]

I still trim mow with an old Lawn Boy 5072, but use a 3/8 drill bit by hand only, it’s the second fastest & easiest way to get the carbon out as you have to pull the blade & muff cover off. Thanks for showing that!

[@YooTooobJeff]

Adapt a spark plug body to the air compressor hose and blow the cylinder out after loosening the deposits with your scratchy screwdriver!

[@nephetula]

Worried about pushing carbon into the cylinder? All you need is another magic tool - (A vacuum cleaner.)

[@nick_vee]

A lickety split exhaust cleaning tool, eh. That was going to be my second guess. First guess would have been that probe the aliens used on me when they took me into their ship and poked around my exhaust port and left me in the back of the pickup when they were done. But that’s another story for a different video.

[@andrew4403]

The notch at the end I'm thinking it gives room for carbon to break loose and to escape. The tip will bust through it and then it gets skinny and allows the carbon to pass That's just my guess

[@OBC-radio]

I think this would also have the (greatly) added bennefit of pushing the carbon out into the muffler to be blown out. Doing it the factory way woud essentially make it easy to push a lot of the carbon back into the cylinder, which would more than offset any justification for their reccomendation of using a "wooden dowel" over a screwdriver...

[@JohnSmith-kz1ll]

Just picked up a free kubota tg1860 for free had sat for 8 years. And it fired right up on the old diesel. Needs a key switch had to jump the solenoid but that’s about it. Oh and tires but what a score.

[@james1795]

Scam em for a one-time extra dollar, and they can tell everyone. Or... treat them right, and you will be swamped with repeat and (word of mouth)new customers.

[@startingnew2024]

Wouldn't you get a better cleaning by reaming out those 3 holes with a small rounded wire brush and then blowing air thru from the top where the spark plug goes?

[@georgepruitt637]

I had more trouble with electronic ignition failure on Lawn Boy's than clogged ports. 60 bucks a pop.

[@charleschapman2428]

I'm guessing you would end up clogging the muffler after cleaning the ports. The same way 2 cycle mufflers get the spark screen clogged.

[@kenjohnson5498]

That item looks oddly like something my ex wife had in her nightstand but hers was much bigger and pink. She must have worked on some BIG! engines at one time, hers must have been for delicate engines because it was plastic.

[@santaclause2875]

Another awesome episode, Taryl!!! Thanks, man! Whoda thunk it???? That's a very cool tool.

[@williamburdon6993]

Brother Feral has made you the man you are today, without him you would just be another pretty face. You just copy and pasted his life into yours, Slippers copy and pasted gilligan and gomers pyles and theres your dinner and a movie.

[@aaronpowell4885]

I was completely stumped, until you said it could be a nose picker. Then I guessed it! Thanks again for sharing!

[@jimb1786]

Never seen a more useless tool. It doesn’t fill the entire port. You can’t see if the port is totally opened up. You can’t check the muffler insides. The only benefit is pushing the carbon into the muffler and not into the cylinder.

[@KStewart-th4sk]

I don't see a reason that the undercut area on the 90 is needed. I am guessing that was just a marketing trick to make it look like a "special tool", when it is really nothing more than a bent rod.

[@MichaelHoranzy]

somebody was thinking when they came up with that tool.probably grond that curve to clear that plug hole.maybe too many hamms?haha nice new shop taryl.doc neon does some pretty cool signs.jus sayin

[@assassinlexx1993]

You can buy a pistol bore brush . Bend it the middle of it. Screw it on the handle. To give it a good scrub with Hoppe's no.9.

[@Satchmoeddie]

I need a restored L head Briggs for my 1970s Sensation mower, and another one for my Bobcat mower. Better Homes & Gardens sold those from some ad in the back.