Ralph’s No Coffee, not-In-driveway’ entry
Well I don’t drink coffee and it looks like I don’t get to drive cars either. The lawn tractor is up on the lift with hopefully non-terminal starting issues. And this after it was torn down over the winter. What did I miss?
Ralph Holyoke
2 comments:
I feel your pain Ralph. When I put the little blue car to bed last fall she was running just fine. Had a few things to do over the winter and spring, including curing a case of the dreaded Lucas virus. Dusted her off last Sunday for a drive and made it about a quarter mile before CAA had to drag me home. :-(
Phil
So here is an interesting turn of events that led to the mower going t..s up.
Despite a full tear-down and many repairs over the winter the float in the carb must have stuck open. this led to a flooded air intake that was then sucked into the cylinder on first quarter turn that then locked the starter from turning any further as it could not compress the liquid. I think it is called hydo-lock???? The penny dropped when I saw the carb dripping gas from the overflowing bowl so I pulled the dripping wet plug cranked it over and blew out the gas reinstalled the spark plug and it fired on first turn of the key.
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