Briggs & Stratton 5hp Quantum on Murray Push Mower
Murray support did answer my inquiry and sent me links to the manuals in the email I’ve posted below:
Thank you for your inquiry.
Click below for engine parts manual;
http://bsintek.basco.com/BriggsDocumentDisplay/Z6ksuJVJ1DajI.pdf
Click below for engine operators manual;
http://bsintek.basco.com/BriggsDocumentDisplay/fljozEX-nfBhU7y.pdf
Attached is the parts list covering model 22545X92C
If you have any further questions, feel free to update this e-mail, or call our Murray Answer Center at 800-528-5087, M-F 8-5PM CST.
Sincerely,
R. Young
Briggs & Stratton/Murray
Answer Center
How to Resurrect HP n5415
Pavilion n5415 to get CF card boot disk upgrade
How I resurrected a old HP laptop for a new life as my wife’s online shopping machine. Overall, it was pretty easy and issue free.
HP Pavilion n5415 Laptop
- Reference information on HP for Pavilion n5415
- Disassembling HP Pavilion n5400 laptops
- Disassembling HP Pavilion n5430 – Useful information and pictures
- Take apart HP Pavilion dv6500 – Not the same model but this is very similar and better pictures. There’s another one somewhere on the web for the n5400 but I can’t find it anymore. If someone finds it can you send me the link.
This was a faithful laptop for at least 6 years before it started overheating every time I played video on it for more than 20 mins. This is frustrating if you try to watch a feature film.. The problem is fairly well known for this epoc of Pavilion’s -apparently due to the heat-sink compound drying out. I never felt like pulling out the heat-sink to refresh the compound it looked like a dicey proposition and slowly my faithful laptop fell into disuse.
Replacing the Hard-drive with a CF card
A few months ago I got the brilliant idea to replace the old 20gb? hard drive with a CF card. I purchased RiData 4GB CF x233 and the adapter below, but never got it to work. I figured for some reason it was the RiData card and bios weren’t jiving. Others had successfully used the RiData card.
Months later I decided to try once more with the Transcend 16Gb below. For one thing I’ve since read that x233 cards will likely not be much faster than the hard drive. Unfortunately, still had no joy. The bios refused to see the card at all. Frustrated, I pulled the CF card out one last time- and one of the adapter pins came with it. One of the pins on the CF was not soldered. Ten minutes later I was installing the OS. The n5415 Phoenix bios calls the CF card a DVD-ROM which is a little ominous.
This is the card and CF adapter I used:
Transend 16gb 400x
Syba SY-IDE2CF-NB25 Ultra IDE to Compact Flash Adapter
Installing Xubuntu 10.10
I chose Xubuntu over a standard Ubuntu install just to keep the size down. So far drivers haven’t been much of an issue. At first it only came up in 800×600 but I ran a command I found somewhere.. yes I’ll try to track it down and insert it here. And after that we’re running at 1024×768 -which is acceptable for this use.
After install of Xubuntu 10.10 boot up time is about 30 sec from power up. Not to bad for a 900mhz machine that’s pushing a decade. Wired internet came up automatically through my router.
Seems like it lost the password I set up during the install and I had to run a recovery to get it set. Don’t know if there’s an issue with saving to the disk or if its a Xubuntu issue, seems like some others have some issues with that.
I used a set of SSD tweaks to try to extend the life of the CF card. Now it seems to be running a bit slower.
Hmm.. tried to upgrade to the new version via the network and had it crash twice while I was out. I’ll have to do more testing, it may be that there is still a heat issue under longish load.
Now, I’m just waiting on a wifi adapter to see if we have completely gotten rid of the overheating problem. To be continued..
UPDATE – 5/11/2012
Wifi adapter got here Sapido Mini WiFi N “Nano Adapter”, no plug’n play under 10.10 anyway. I’m going to have to try installing the included linux drivers. I’ll see how that goes. Unfortunately, it looks like this didn’t fix the overheating problem. Under use it still overheats after perhaps an hour. Looks like I’m going to have to pull the heat-sink after all.
Some more resources
- This gent thinks the 11.10 upgrade slowed things down on his old laptop install so I’m avoiding it for the time being
- Tweaks and information about Xubuntu
- Found a nice breakdown of the important bits and a slackware config file -which I didn’t try to use at this point here: http://www.splitbits.com/?page_id=41
What Briggs & Stratton Engine is on my Murray Push Mower
This is a newer version of mine, looks like the same engine
If you’re looking for the manuals check links at the bottom.
I recently spent a couple hours trying to find a manual for my old Murray push mower. Murray’s apparently been bought by Briggs and Stratton at some point. The engine on it is a 5hp “Quantum” B&S. The model number on the mower is: 22545x92c
But searching on that model doesn’t bring up much. Even searching Murray’s site for it doesn’t give net a manual. I’ve contacted support asking about it, but from my searching I’m not that hopeful I’ll get a response. We’ll see..
There doesn’t seem to be any specs on my mower and frankly it looks to be from 95 or 96. If you’re trying to service a Murray mower I’d start with the engine. The engine model number on this one is on the front of the engine above the spark plug. If you can’t find it, try this video by Briggs:
Murray Model push mower model 22545x92c
Briggs and Stratton model 124702-3106-01
5hp Quantum Power
Parts for this engine:
http://www.repairclinic.com/Briggs-Stratton-Small-Engine-Model-124702310601-ID-747675-Parts
Diagram for this engine:
http://www.partstree.com/parts/?lc=briggs_and_stratton&mn=124702-3106-01&dn=58390005S
I don’t work for any of these places nor get anything from them. I just put this list together for my own repair project.
UPDATE:
Got mower and engine manual from Murray support. See the links here: http://www.dustii.com/?p=28