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Sometimes projects seem like they aren’t worth the time in money for the reward,but the sense of accomplishment you get when you’re finished is second to none. It was early april of 2017, I was just barely 19 at the time, and I was bored out of my mind. I had finished high school in 2016 and decided to take a year off. I was working part time and that meant that I had a lot of free time on my hands but had nothing to do. I went to my grandparents house one april morning, and went there to find out if they had anything that they needed done for projects or household chores. My grandfather led me out to the yard and there it sat. A 1986 Wheel Horse riding lawn mower. It was an old lawnmower, not one that you see today in the stores made …show more content…

I could get the spark plug to fire and I could get it going on starting fluid but it wouldn’t stay running. I decided to check the fuel system to make sure it was getting fuel, and it wasn’t. I pulled the fuel pump off of the motor. It was an old type of fuel pump that used the camshaft to power it to deliver fuel. I opened it up and found a bunch of gunk in it which was preventing it from functioning properly. I put the fuel pump back on after fixing it. The fuel tank had to be drained so I took the hose off and drained it. I spilled a bunch of it on myself, it went on my pants,shirt,shoes and my arms which resulted in me having an odor of gasoline that would take days to get rid of. I refueled it and decided after over a week of working on It I would take a day off. I returned 2 days later to attempt to finish the project I had started I still had a little odor of gasoline and oil on me. I Went to try to start the motor. I felt the cold metal key in my hands as I slowly turned it to the start position. It slowly turned over. Then suddenly there was a loud pop and it started. It was a rough idle and it had a lot of white smoke coming from the exhaust. The was so much smoke you could subtly taste it, and it wasn’t a very good taste, a bitty taste like dirt or dust. It wasn’t very quiet either, it was

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