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Re: My lawnmower starts and then dies right away.. Help? [Re: makaveli8x8]
#22288076 - 09/25/15 11:52 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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And it stayed running til I killed it 
I dried and cleaned the plug and put it back in and it fired right up!
Not sure which part did the trick, but I'll take it..
Maybe the seafoam had enough time to work its magic.
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Re: My lawnmower starts and then dies right away.. Help? [Re: makaveli8x8]
#22288080 - 09/25/15 11:53 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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The throttle moves freely and will rev when fucked with when it does run.
can you keep it running by holding it rev'd?
No, that didn't work when I was doing it.
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Re: My lawnmower starts and then dies right away.. Help? [Re: shLong]
#22288081 - 09/25/15 11:53 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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shLong said: It's running! 
Congrats you did what I never could.
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Re: My lawnmower starts and then dies right away.. Help? [Re: shLong]
#22288086 - 09/25/15 11:54 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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So, I guess now I'll get the oil right again, and hope that's it..
I learned a lot from this thread..
Thank you, everyone for your time and assistance
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Re: My lawnmower starts and then dies right away.. Help? [Re: shLong]
#22288092 - 09/25/15 11:55 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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The only thing of concern was that it was smoking a lot near the exhaust manifold... I did spill a lot of fuel, so hopefully it was just the gas burning off the hot surfaces.
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Re: My lawnmower starts and then dies right away.. Help? [Re: makaveli8x8]
#22288096 - 09/25/15 11:56 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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just for future reference you can find the jet by taking the carb bowl off, there is a tub that goes down into that bowl, you got the bowl off by taking a screw out, that screw went into the tube. Inside that tube is the jet.
On some/possible all mowers there is a second jet ontop the carb.
anyways key to keeping mowers running is your maintence. with the shitty ethanol fuel u need to use fuel stabilizer all the time now, especially over winter. change oil before winter. Some people say to drain the fuel tank, others say to just top it off with fuel that's stabilized before winter storage.
your air filter needs changed from what I can see, at the least blow the shit out of it with compressed air without making holes in it.
and the last thing is to put oil in the spark plug hole during winter storage. you could also drain the carb bowl to be careful.
there's some other shit too like there might be a spark arrester behind the muffler that needs cleaned, but best bet just find the manuel online and do what that says
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Re: My lawnmower starts and then dies right away.. Help? [Re: shLong]
#22288106 - 09/25/15 11:59 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'd keep an eye on the plug. It's kind of hard definitely see, but it really does look oil fouled. Generally that shouldn't happen. If you got the plug all clean, then check it after 5-10 hours of use and see if it looks like it's coated in oil. If it is, something is going on that shouldn't be.
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Re: My lawnmower starts and then dies right away.. Help? [Re: Shroomslip]
#22288135 - 09/25/15 12:06 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I was just about to suggest that shlong brings his mower to a real man, but apparently he pulled it off!
You are one step closer to be qualified to live in the South
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Re: My lawnmower starts and then dies right away.. Help? [Re: Patlal]
#22288156 - 09/25/15 12:12 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thanks, mak.. You've been a real help.. I didn't know you knew small engines so well.
Shroomslip, you too.. Appreciate it.
Patlal, please, nigga
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Re: My lawnmower starts and then dies right away.. Help? [Re: shLong]
#22288172 - 09/25/15 12:16 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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There was a guy repairing some small to medium engine in the parking lot across the street this morning at 6am in the rain. F**ker woke me up.
Whatever is so goddamn important at 6am to get a random engine running, I don't know, it wasn't attached to anything and there was a lot of banging, cursing and slamming mid-downpour in a random parking lot.
Whichever tho, it's raining and 55 degrees, tomorrow won't be above 70 and I'm going mushroom hunting so meh, such is life.
BTW why didn't you check the spark plug first.
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Re: My lawnmower starts and then dies right away.. Help? [Re: shLong]
#22288175 - 09/25/15 12:18 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I didn't know them to well till about a month ago, I pulled my lawn mower apart so I could paint the bottom of the deck, and do all the maintenance and check everything out. So I just got done dealing with a lot of things that can go wrong so its still fresh in my head.
Sadly after I got it all back together, I had a fuel leak, and it fucked up part of my paint job. I also painted my muffler with high temp paint but apparently not high enough so that got ruined too
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Re: My lawnmower starts and then dies right away.. Help? [Re: makaveli8x8]
#22288179 - 09/25/15 12:19 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Your lawn must be super pissed it's not getting plowed by a well-groomed mower.
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Re: My lawnmower starts and then dies right away.. Help? [Re: Peachette]
#22288195 - 09/25/15 12:23 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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for some odd reason we have 2 push mowers and a riding mower, so it still got plowed hard. I replaced the fuel line going in to the overhaul but it turned out to be a crack in the tank where it bolts to the mower, just got done doing some research and it looks like jbweld is going to be my friend for fixing this, tricky finding something to hold up to gasoline
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why didn't you check the spark plug first.
think most people just assumed since it was starting that it was getting spark, my hunch is when the fuel got dumped when he pulled the bowl all the stuff came out with it
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Re: My lawnmower starts and then dies right away.. Help? [Re: Peachette]
#22288201 - 09/25/15 12:24 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I didn't check it 1st because it was running and then dying.. I thought it was a fuel/air issue initially..
I don't think the spark plug was ever the issue, just happened to be the last thing I touched before it worked..
Probably the seafoam that did it.. I also cleaned the inside of the carb on every surface and hole I could get at, thanks to mak and Co.
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Re: My lawnmower starts and then dies right away.. Help? [Re: makaveli8x8]
#22288212 - 09/25/15 12:25 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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If you have two push mowers why not just part one out or get one at a landfill/transfer station/waystation or whichever they call them in your area. People scoop them up fast tho.
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shLong said: I didn't check it 1st because it was running and then dying.. I thought it was a fuel/air issue initially..
I don't think the spark plug was ever the issue, just happened to be the last thing I touched before it worked..
Probably the seafoam that did it.. I also cleaned the inside of the carb on every surface and hole I could get at, thanks to mak and Co.
Your mower should be good for awhile now. Work and time well spent.
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makaveli8x8 said: for some odd reason we have 2 push mowers and a riding mower, so it still got plowed hard.
Plow it in the grass and back 9.
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Re: My lawnmower starts and then dies right away.. Help? [Re: Peachette]
#22288219 - 09/25/15 12:27 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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because mines special
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Re: My lawnmower starts and then dies right away.. Help? [Re: makaveli8x8]
#22288229 - 09/25/15 12:29 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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My s/o's fave mower was the dumpiest stinkiest broken down piece of junk and still used it over the new 400$ one.
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Re: My lawnmower starts and then dies right away.. Help? [Re: makaveli8x8]
#22288242 - 09/25/15 12:35 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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The throttle moves freely and will rev when fucked with when it does run.
can you keep it running by holding it rev'd?
If he can, the throttle is the problem.
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Re: My lawnmower starts and then dies right away.. Help? [Re: koods]
#22288264 - 09/25/15 12:41 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I couldn't
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Re: My lawnmower starts and then dies right away.. Help? [Re: shLong]
#22288300 - 09/25/15 12:54 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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New plug new air filter oil change. Tune that fucker up.
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