MY CAPSTONE

By: Conner Macdonald

Where I got the idea
• I started out with the idea of doing a workout plan but I thought that I always workout
I'm not learning anything new and I would have made the workout instead of a fun
thing it might have turned into my homework and I don’t want to make working out a
chore. So I changed my idea into doing motor engineering I thought it would be a fun
thing that I could learn how a lawn mower motor works. I have never done anything
like this before so a lot of what I did was threw triel and arer. I learned what a piston
and many things about the motor.
Picking up a lawn mower
I got a old broken lawn motor it wouldn’t start
or even try to turn over so came my next step
New spark plug
I went out and got a new spark
plug to try and help the lawn
mower motor start but the motor
seemed like it was trying to start
but wasn’t quite there
Put in new Oil
The next step I took out
the old oil in the motor
and replaced it with new
oil.
The next problem
This is the muffler the muffler has
decided it would be funny to shoot
sparks and fuel out of the muffler
so I would now have to try and
solve that problem
Research
• First of all, I looked up why would my lawn mower engine shoot sparks out of the
muffler. It told me it was possible for the piston rings are disintegrated in the heads to
lack of lubrications
Took of the Blade
The next step was taking the blade off for
two reasons one was to help prevent
myself from possibly accidently cutting
myself and the second reason was
because I was going to attach a rotter to
it to make my cart go
Clean the motor
I took the lawn mower cover off to
try and take a peek at the engine it
was crazy messy in the engine it
looked like there was a nest inside
the motor it was a big mess and I
cleaned it out
The clean motor
I cleaned up the motor and
made it look nice then
applied WD-40 to some
parts to try and make the
motor run better
I took apart the motor
I took apart the lawn mower motor I
took a look at the piston and I
thought it was fine but I wasn’t
willing to spend $150 on a new
piston so I made it work now
everything moved nicely
The motor on the cart
This is the fine project the motor on
the cart I was unable to do the
welding part parshly because of the
covid and because I didn’t know
anything about welding but
everything id together on the motor
and it looks pretty sick
THE END