sounds to me as if for what ever reason it quit getting oil and seazed up. i have an old cub cedet with a colar engine that did the same thing. jim At 10:36 PM 8/9/2008, you wrote:
>The riding mower died yesterday. Sue was driving it and reported to me that >it had quit. The starter wouldn't turn it over. The battery is brand new. >I couldn't turn it by hand either. I quizzed her in more detail which >revealed that it had started to vibrate and then stopped. The engine didn't >coast down to a stop, it stopped dead. That seems to be its condition. I >assume something broke inside the engine. Probably a piston. Given an over >winter I could likely tare it down, order the parts from Brigs and Stratton >and fix it. But with the growing season still going strong I don't think I >could do it in time to suit Sue. Having a mower shop do it would likely >cost as much as a new mower. We went today and bought a John Deere. The >engine in it looks like a Brigs. > >Regards. > >Max. K 4 O D S. > >Email: <mailto:max%40maxsmusicplace.com>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Transistor site ><http://www.funwithtransistors.net>http://www.funwithtransistors.net >Vacuum tube site: <http://www.funwithtubes.net>http://www.funwithtubes.net >Music site: <http://www.maxsmusicplace.com>http://www.maxsmusicplace.com > >To subscribe to the fun with tubes group send an email to, ><mailto:funwithtubes-subscribe%40yahoogroups.com>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com >Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.6.0/1601 - Release Date: >8/8/2008 9:02 AM
