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Push and riding mowers tuned, blades sharpened and balanced, decks cleaned and belts and spindles replaced before they let go mid-season.
Open today 7 am – 5 pm
Small Engine Technician · Milton
Mowers, snowblowers, chainsaws, trimmers and generators, all makes. Pullcord Small Engine will diagnose it and call with a price before a single part is ordered.
Serving Milton
About us
Pullcord Small Engine can fix the machines that only fail when you need them. Most of it comes down to fuel — ethanol gasoline left in a carburettor over a season causes more repairs than wear ever does — so we rebuild it properly, set the carburettor to spec and tell you how to store it so it starts next year. Diagnosis and price come before parts, and we will tell you straight when a machine is not worth the repair.
What we do
Big jobs and small ones, across Milton and the surrounding area.
Push and riding mowers tuned, blades sharpened and balanced, decks cleaned and belts and spindles replaced before they let go mid-season.
Augers, shear pins, friction discs, chutes and carburettors sorted in the fall, because the first storm is the worst time to find out.
Chains sharpened, bars dressed, carburettors adjusted and clutch and brake checked so the saw cuts straight instead of pulling to one side.
Two-stroke handhelds that will not start, will not idle or bog under load brought back with fresh fuel systems and proper carburettor settings.
The single most common repair we do, and almost always caused by ethanol fuel sitting in a machine over the off-season.
Portable and standby generators run up, oil and filters changed and output tested under load so they start when the power goes out.
Pumps rebuilt, unloader valves replaced and engines serviced so the washer holds pressure instead of pulsing and stalling.
We collect heavy equipment from your driveway, service it, and return it fuelled, stabilised and ready to put away.
Need a hand in Milton?
Tell us what the job is and we'll tell you what it takes.
Why choose us
Ask to see any of these before the work starts.
Service area
Pullcord Small Engine covers these towns week in, week out.
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FAQ
Don't see your question? Call and ask. We'd rather answer it on the phone than have you guess.
Almost always the fuel. Pump gasoline contains ethanol, which attracts water and turns to varnish in a few months, and that gums up the tiny jets in a small carburettor. Left long enough it eats the diaphragms too. Draining the tank and running it dry or adding stabiliser at the end of every season prevents most of the repairs we see.
We tell you the repair cost before doing it, and we will say when it is more than the machine is worth. As a rule, quality equipment with a good engine is worth repairing for years, and a big-box mower with a seized deck spindle usually is not. Age matters less than whether parts are still available for it.
Roughly every twenty to twenty-five hours of cutting, which is once or twice a season for most lawns. A dull blade tears grass rather than cutting it, which leaves the tips brown a day later and makes the lawn look sick. We balance every blade after sharpening, because an unbalanced blade vibrates the engine's crankshaft bearing to death.
September or October. Everyone brings theirs in the week of the first big storm, and that is when the shop is three weeks deep and parts are backordered. Off-season service is faster, and often cheaper.
Yes, for riding mowers, larger snowblowers and generators, within our service area for a flat fee. Handhelds are cheaper to drop off. Either way you get a call with the diagnosis and price before we start.
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