Greetings all; A month ago my old JD rider was running clean and did the front yard nicely, then I had a water leak and used it to stretch out a coil of 3/4" plastic to reach from the meter into the house. Has been sitting there in the open gate to the back yard, gas shut off, tank nearly full.
So yesterday I tried to start it, but everytime I get it to a throttle where it will mow, 3 seconds later a huge cloud of oil smoke and it dies, repeat till the battery is wiped out. Get up this morning, check the oil & its 1/2" overfull??? Put the medium sized automatic charger on it for about 4 hours while I go get a few things from the grocery store and stop at Fred's place & make a deal on a Craftsman about 10 years old, a 46" with a hydraulic tranny and a 26 hp v-twin to spin it, comes with a new deck and some wheel weights but it will take Fred 3 days or so to get it ready to load. His grandboy help is fishing in Canada. $850. Come back, pull the carb and clean it, put it back totether, fires right at about a 600 rev idle. Left the cleaner off because its oil soaked.??? Let it idle while I corral tools, come back and going to cut about 1/4 of the back yard. Wind it up to about 2500 & start to engage the deck. geiser of oil shoots about 4 feet up in the air out of the crankcase vent hose. Also looks like small leak in head gasket below the exhaust valve. Par for the course for a Briggs & this one says 11 hp. So it looks like I deal for the bigger craftsman, The $16 question is whats most likely wrong with the engine? This,I'm guessing is more than a head gasket. But is it worth tearing down to see? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
