Free lawnmower I got two years ago. When I got it , both the crankcase and the gas tank were full of water. Through a lot of frustration, I got the carb working correctly. Sharpened the blade and it was back in business.The last two springs, it started on the first pull with ZERO winterization -- but I do use ethanol free gas in it.
I was playing brushhog with it a few weeks ago mulching some weeds and stuff I pulled out of an old, overgrown flowerbed. I ran it a bit too hard. I noticed it started burning oil and the exhaust smelled of dead engine. I kept the oil full and kept going. The next time I mowed the lawn it was a darn good mosquito fogger. I have a really small lawn and it managed to run through all of it's oil doing just my back yard.
Was mowing yesterday and it would occasionally start popping out of the intake (or I thought). And it seemed to have less and less power as I kept going. Then it started stalling every 30-40 seconds -- every time I'd pull the rope to start it, I seemed to have less and less compression.
It did go out with a bang, though. Then there was no compression - I don't even get a reading when checking the compression. So I took the head off hoping to find a stuck valve or a lose valve seat. Nothing with the valves but the bottom of the cylinder is really scored. Put it back together and tried to fire it up without the air filter and found out that it was popping out of the breather. Guess the rings had enough.
The best brushhog is a free mower! Until it kills the mower.
On to the next free mower!
I was playing brushhog with it a few weeks ago mulching some weeds and stuff I pulled out of an old, overgrown flowerbed. I ran it a bit too hard. I noticed it started burning oil and the exhaust smelled of dead engine. I kept the oil full and kept going. The next time I mowed the lawn it was a darn good mosquito fogger. I have a really small lawn and it managed to run through all of it's oil doing just my back yard.
Was mowing yesterday and it would occasionally start popping out of the intake (or I thought). And it seemed to have less and less power as I kept going. Then it started stalling every 30-40 seconds -- every time I'd pull the rope to start it, I seemed to have less and less compression.
It did go out with a bang, though. Then there was no compression - I don't even get a reading when checking the compression. So I took the head off hoping to find a stuck valve or a lose valve seat. Nothing with the valves but the bottom of the cylinder is really scored. Put it back together and tried to fire it up without the air filter and found out that it was popping out of the breather. Guess the rings had enough.
The best brushhog is a free mower! Until it kills the mower.
On to the next free mower!