What on God's green earth is wrong with my mower???

[stuckmotor]

Are you running the correct fuel filter? tried one of those see through jobs on my Snapper and had bad results, switcned to origonal equipment and solved the problem.

 

[fried1765]

As a Seafoam believer, put some in the tank on a regular basis and add more before you store for the winter. Then run it out of fuel before storing and start with fresh gas in the spring. Even better is to just use ethanol gas if you can get it. Seafoam works and ethanol doesn't and if you don't pay attention will likely have this problem again.

"Even better is to use ethanol gas if you can get it."
Really????

 

[LD1]

Guessing he meant ethanol-free

 

[sixdogs]

"Even better is to use ethanol gas if you can get it."
Really????

You know what I meant; cut me some slack.

Guessing he meant ethanol-free

Indeed I did. Ethanol has ruined more stuff of mine than I care to recall. Thankfully, non-ethanol "pure gas" is available in many places. Get it if you can and save the hastle.

 

[BukitCase]

Agreed on the "congressional gas" thing; it's been about 6 YEARS since I used "E-crap" in ANYTHING I don't actually DRIVE to the gas station - 'bout the same time it's been since I either rebuilt or REPLACED a carburetor on small engines, 2 or 4 cycle

In my area, pure gas runs a little over a buck a gallon more - which adds up to maybe $35 a summer extra, GLADLY paid for and MORE than worth it compared to the constant frustration of stuff being harder to start, having less power, etc -

I post this link every so often, in case someone doesn't know where to look in their area -

http://pure-gas.org

...Steve

 

[Phillip w]

Picked up mower this morning. Yes he did recommend a higher grade fuel. Carburator was full o rust. He said that is typical of mowers coming in off the farm. He said only way to get rust like that is a metal can or fuel barrel. It my case the fuel barrel got me

 

[BukitCase]

Yeah, that's yet ANOTHER thing you can (at least partially) thank ethanol for - being hygroscopic, it picks up water in the air; then, unless you keep your (metal) tank OVERFLOWING when you store it, everything above the "water line" has a perfect environment for rust... Steve

 

[Phillip w]

I am just glad it did not screw up my wife's suv, our van or my pickup. With electronic fuel injection that would have really got pricey. I probably change the filter on the barrel before I use it again