Recent content by Ole Yeller

It runs on either cylinder I also invertenly left the dipstick loose and had oil blowing everywhere. Is the crank case supposed to have a lot of pressure..

It’s been a month and I’m giving a update. The mower did have a bad coil so I have replaced both. But it still runs sluggish, changed plugs fuel filter. Still has power loss and excessive fuel consumption. I am wondering if it may have a blown head gasket or broke ring.

I have the one wire coils but did not check both coils. It may be running on one cylinder like you suggest because the exhaust note is different. When the kill wire is installed in series it won’t start but if you unplug one it starts right up. Will check the coils to see if I’m getting spark on...

Went to give the mower a servicing and the starter solenoid got stuck. After finally getting the starter to stop replaced the solenoid. That’s when the problem began. Started just fine and ran about 5 minutes then went dead checked fuel ,getting fuel checked spark, no spark. Pulled kill wire off...