I bought a used mower, primarily to eventually scavenge the deck and transmission. It started and ran fine (of course) in the guy’s driveway but once I got it home the engine started giving me problems. It starts just fine and will run for a few minutes, but once you engage the blades it starts stuttering and missing badly. It smokes and smells like it’s blowing out unburned fuel, almost like it is badly out of time. If you disengage the blade it doesn’t recover but keeps sputtering and missing. If I turn it off and try to restart immediately it still misses, but if I let it set for a while it starts and runs normally. It’s an 18hp OHV Intek V twin from around 2005.
Any suggestions on where to start fixing/diagnosing? As I said I really bought it for parts but if I could fix the engine it would be nice to have a spare one of those as well.
Any suggestions on where to start fixing/diagnosing? As I said I really bought it for parts but if I could fix the engine it would be nice to have a spare one of those as well.