Ran great 2 min. Then power loss and lots of black smoke

[kubotasam]

Had not run my B2410 in about a week. It started good. I backed it out of the shed and started down the drive over to the cellar garage. As I said about 2 minutes it ran great. Then it stumbled lost RPM and started lots of black smoke from the exhaust. It would only hold about 1200 rpm and would just barely move. I shut it down. Lots of thoughts in my head. It was obvious it was running with way to much fuel. Injector stuck open? Something wrong with injector pump?
I had replaced the air filter about 10 hours ago so I did not think it could be plugged air filter. Plus it had started and run fine. However I decided "KISS".
Keep it simple stupid. So I opened up the air cleaner. Look at what I found.

 

[sheepfarmer]

Had not run my B2410 in about a week. It started good. I backed it out of the shed and started down the drive over to the cellar garage. As I said about 2 minutes it ran great. Then it stumbled lost RPM and started lots of black smoke from the exhaust. It would only hold about 1200 rpm and would just barely move. I shut it down. Lots of thoughts in my head. It was obvious it was running with way to much fuel. Injector stuck open? Something wrong with injector pump?
I had replaced the air filter about 10 hours ago so I did not think it could be plugged air filter. Plus it had started and run fine. However I decided "KISS".
Keep it simple stupid. So I opened up the air cleaner. Look at what I found.

Air cleaners come with white footed deer mice these days???

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

Air cleaners come with white footed deer mice these days???

Yep it's a new non payment or anti theft device!

 

[cre73]

Yep been there before, had me scathing my head for a few minutes.