moombadaze
04-08-2011, 07:29 AM
In florida you can allmost mow year round so I never winterize the lawmowers-have 2, a rider and walkbehind.
3 weeks ago
Tried to fire up the rider and felt like the battery was dead-could have been as it was a few years old, got new battery-still wont start. kept trying and finally started spinning over. Started up and smoked like I have never seen. Back out of the shed and had a huge wet spot under it(never leaked in the last 8 yrs), then ran out of gas. Filled with gas and its still smoking BAD. parked it and grabbed the walk behind to mow and it ran crappy too.
Check the rider last night and the 3 gallon tank is down to about a 1/4 left and then checked the oil level-its about 5 inchs up the dipstick and smells like gas-how could gas be getting into the crankcase? The walkbehind is running like crap-poping,coughing and wanting to stall. It also had a empty gas tank-bone dry and I swear I didnt leave it that way the last time it was used. I did not check the oil level and on the 1st pull I damm near tore my arm off from it not wanting to spin over.
Could ethinol be causing all this???? And if so what is the fix that I can do?
thanks
3 weeks ago
Tried to fire up the rider and felt like the battery was dead-could have been as it was a few years old, got new battery-still wont start. kept trying and finally started spinning over. Started up and smoked like I have never seen. Back out of the shed and had a huge wet spot under it(never leaked in the last 8 yrs), then ran out of gas. Filled with gas and its still smoking BAD. parked it and grabbed the walk behind to mow and it ran crappy too.
Check the rider last night and the 3 gallon tank is down to about a 1/4 left and then checked the oil level-its about 5 inchs up the dipstick and smells like gas-how could gas be getting into the crankcase? The walkbehind is running like crap-poping,coughing and wanting to stall. It also had a empty gas tank-bone dry and I swear I didnt leave it that way the last time it was used. I did not check the oil level and on the 1st pull I damm near tore my arm off from it not wanting to spin over.
Could ethinol be causing all this???? And if so what is the fix that I can do?
thanks