Yea, still running good. Planning to give it a paint job, now that it's running.

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Gonna turn it into a trailer queen?

bringing it to any lawn mower shows?

make sure the paint job has ghost flames.

Make sure its the correct shade of "toro red"... Wouldnt want to lose points cuz of something simple like that... LOL

I was actually looking through the shop at what engine paints I already had and found: black, several cans of ford blue (dad bought ), and aluminum. I dunno....I'm pretty happy with just having a running lawm mower...

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yeah... Personally, I dont judge a guy by the paint job on his lawn mower! You're supposed to judge the lawn left after the lawnmower passes over!

You should make a custom exaust for that beast... Like 3/4'' pipe that curves up into a smokestack. Then put one of those flappers on it so it will go,"clink clink" at idle.... LOL... I actually run a 16 horse briggs vangard v-twin with a straight pipe on it...that thing sounds mean, seriously mean...

have you guys seen those ride-on mower races? These guys get going like 60mph on thier ride-on mowers!!! Funny as hell, but suicide if you ask me!

those things are great

It seems to me the older lawnmowers were not as particular and were a lot more durable........Oh well.


Kinda sounds like old cars, doesn't it? LOL

Andrew...it sounds as if you're good with lawn mower engines. I recently had a problem with my rider which noone has figured out yet.

12 HP Tecumseh I/C vertical shaft, OHV, electric start.
Started up fine this spring, started mowing, carb flooded out and died, pinched off fuel line, turned over, started up fine. Let the fuel line loose and it flooded out again. Found a pinhole in the float so I replaced it. Also drained the oil and put fresh in in case of contamination......

Now....I attempted to start the mower again...will turn over until it comes up on a compression stroke, then stops turning. Bump the starter till it gets past compression stroke, will turn over fine one revolution till it reaches compression stroke, then stops. Thought perhaps the starter was getting bad, so I replaced it...no difference. Also checked voltage to the starter, as well as battery voltage...13.6 volts. Hit the key, motor will turn over till it reaches compression stroke then stop. Can turn over engine by hand. Pull the plug out, engine turns over fine with starter. Has not sheared the timing key. Compression is in the 100-110 psi range. Oil level is within specs. I can't for the life of me figure this damned thing out...it's so strange that the problem started at the same time..acts like the battery is low or the starter is weak, but both check out fine. Motor seems to turn over freeley enough by hand...I don't know WHAT the heck to think now....any ideas? If nothing else email me directly at smghmg@mwt.net, as lately I've been swamped and not on the board often.

Even if the battery is cranking out enough Volts, it still may not be putting out enough Cranking Amps to get past the compression stroke. If it does have enough Cranking Amps, then it could be your compression release or mis-alighend (sp?) valves. Had an old Kohler 15HP do that, valves were all screwed up. Just pray it's the battery, lol.

Its probably a valve lash issue. I have seen that situation about 100 times. Lash on that shoud be about 10 thousandths - 12 thousandths. What happens is that the valves get loose and then the comp. release doesnt work, and your starter cant turn it over. Set the valve lash with the piston 1/4'' past TDC on the compression stroke. (both valves closed) If this doesnt take care of it, let me know here or via email at andrewk@iastate.edu Peace!

Hi Brando, all


Found my problem last week.

It was out of gas. ops: I believed someone who said he had filled it up.

Violation of the first rule of troubleshooting.

Regards, Norm

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