Homelite ST175 String trimmer parts?

Home Depot is a source to order parts from, but they'd be full-boat retail. Ask any yard service guy. However, Homelite is crap, I went through a few until I started buying Echo. We use them to keep the shop's grounds in order.

Here in the desert..a string trimmer lasts for years, as we have little but dry grass to trim back, and that not very much of.

This one is marked Made in USA...so figured it was better than nothing.

Gunner

"Confiscating wealth from those who have earned it, inherited it, or got lucky is never going to help 'the poor.' Poverty isn't caused by some people having more money than others, just as obesity isn't caused by McDonald's serving super-sized orders of French fries Poverty, like obesity, is caused by the life choices that dictate results." - John Tucci,

Does it have a bent tube and flex shaft or a gear box? The flex shaft ones are rated for homeowner use only.

Check Homelite's site. $8.00

Not on the subject, but did you ever get that welder engine apart? Kinda lost track of that one.

Jim

Nope...#1 is frozen into the cylinder pretty well. Kroil passes through the other three..but not this one.

Pulled the pan, tapped from the bottom, pulled the rod cap..tapped from the bottom...still no movememt. Im going to have to pull the rod caps on all of them, try to get the rods free of the crank, and turn the crank enough to get #1 free from the crank, then smack the s*it out of it with a BFH. ...or bust out the piston with a hammer and chisel.

I cant even pull the engine without freeing the crank, cause the genny bolts that connect the welder to the flywheel are accessable through a single small porthole..and one has to turn the crank to get access to each individual bolt.

Its kinda on the back burner at the moment..Ill get back to it before long. Everytime I go by it..I smack the top of the piston with a hammer and a chunk of wook a couple times, pour in some fresh Kroil and cover it back up again.

Gunner

"Confiscating wealth from those who have earned it, inherited it, or got lucky is never going to help 'the poor.' Poverty isn't caused by some people having more money than others, just as obesity isn't caused by McDonald's serving super-sized orders of French fries Poverty, like obesity, is caused by the life choices that dictate results." - John Tucci,

I bought a weed eater Saturday for$2, it is so old it has two main bearings (model 1400). The Homelite I got 5 years ago for $2 because it was "leaking oil" Gerry :-)} London, Canada

Sounds like FUN to me. If you take all the rod caps off you "should" be able to turn the crank and free the gen. I'm just wondering what kind of moron would design something like that?

Jim

Here's a strange idea. Make a 1/2" thick plate with a 1/2" nipple in it. Bolt it on the offending cylinder with some type of gasket. Hook up a hydraulic pump to the nipple.

Gonna have to ask the folks at Miller about that...shrug

Guy who sold it to me offered to go through the engine, hell of a machinist with a vERY well equipped shop and a bunch of his guys are motorheads...but Ive got to bring it to them.

Gunner

"Confiscating wealth from those who have earned it, inherited it, or got lucky is never going to help 'the poor.' Poverty isn't caused by some people having more money than others, just as obesity isn't caused by McDonald's serving super-sized orders of French fries Poverty, like obesity, is caused by the life choices that dictate results." - John Tucci,

Actually...not a bad idea

Id have to pull some of the busted head bolts and replace em first though.....

"Confiscating wealth from those who have earned it, inherited it, or got lucky is never going to help 'the poor.' Poverty isn't caused by some people having more money than others, just as obesity isn't caused by McDonald's serving super-sized orders of French fries Poverty, like obesity, is caused by the life choices that dictate results." - John Tucci,

And used quite a bit. Using a standard grease gun for a pump and a plate with a zerk on it.

Well, that would be the place to start - if you can't save the block, worrying about the piston is secondary.

Could even use grease as the working medium if you have a big bucket

- cartridges would be a waste. That, or a porta-power hand pump, or an air-over-hydraulic pump...

Just make sure it's well bled when you apply 3000 PSI, or once that piston starts moving it might not stop - you start with a one-piece crankshaft, and end with a two-piece crank and a new round crater in the driveway... ;-)

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A grease gun sounds like a lot of work, we need horsepower here! Besides, we can talk Gunner into video recording the whole thing!

...out of the mouth of...

AAHH now I see your plan,

Gunner, Could you practice saying "Hey y'all watch this"....

Only if someone holds my beer...er Monster

Gunner

"Confiscating wealth from those who have earned it, inherited it, or got lucky is never going to help 'the poor.' Poverty isn't caused by some people having more money than others, just as obesity isn't caused by McDonald's serving super-sized orders of French fries Poverty, like obesity, is caused by the life choices that dictate results." - John Tucci,

Unless the stuck piston is at the bottom of its stroke, in which case trying to drive it down would not be effective, it may be possible to rotate the crankshaft enough to swing the rod to the side and thus be able to rotate the crank enough to get the attaching bolts out. Removing the rod bolts will get you some extra clearance. It is possible but somewhat hazardous to cut the connecting rod out of the way with a torch or possibly a small abrasive wheel. Sacrifice the piston and/or rod to save the block. Hydraulic forcing has some potential to crack the block.

It is not unusual to be unable to disconnect an engine without rotating it to reach the connecting bolts.

Don Young

Its stuck at nearly the bottom. Only a couple degrees off of it.

"Confiscating wealth from those who have earned it, inherited it, or got lucky is never going to help 'the poor.' Poverty isn't caused by some people having more money than others, just as obesity isn't caused by McDonald's serving super-sized orders of French fries Poverty, like obesity, is caused by the life choices that dictate results." - John Tucci,