LMichaels
TVWBB 2-Star Olympian
So as many here know I'm moving towards all battery powered yard equipment (except of course no way I give up the mighty Kubota). So, I did end up selling my gas engine snow blower last week. Guy comes to view it, wants to see it run. I oblige. One tug and it fires right off. Like always. I demonstrate the functions, he's happy, has his brother come with pickup truck and off they go (only a couple miles from my house). They unload it, and he wants to demonstrate his new "treasure". He can't get it to run. Well yesterday I go tohis house to "demonstrate" how to run it, and I can't get it to run. I got gasoline coming out of the muffler, from trying, gas contaminating the engine oil. So I tell him bring on back, and if I can't get it to run, I'll return his $$$ and keep the machine.
I had a "hunch" so before he brought the machine over I went and bought a new spark plug. As I've seen s&*t like this twice before. Once on my Allis Chalmers garden tractor and once on that little Honda lawn tractor I had. On the Allis, I'd been out sweeping and chopping leaves, stopped it to take a break and get a leaf pile burning. Went back to the machine DOA. Refused to start. Pulled the plug, tested it. No spark.
Had a similar thing happen to the Honda. Out chopping up leaves the day before. Finished the task, put the machine away. Next day went out to do more of the same. Machine is coughing, sluggish, just not "right". Pulled it into the garage, cooled it down, pulled both spark plugs, checking compression and all is good. Plugs looked like new. Ran to store, bought some new ones, slapped them in, boom, fired up running like the finely tuned little machine most Honda engines are known for.
So this is the 3rd time (all 3 BTW) at same time of year and under same circumstances. Spark plug(s) ok one minute DOA the next.
I had a "hunch" so before he brought the machine over I went and bought a new spark plug. As I've seen s&*t like this twice before. Once on my Allis Chalmers garden tractor and once on that little Honda lawn tractor I had. On the Allis, I'd been out sweeping and chopping leaves, stopped it to take a break and get a leaf pile burning. Went back to the machine DOA. Refused to start. Pulled the plug, tested it. No spark.
Had a similar thing happen to the Honda. Out chopping up leaves the day before. Finished the task, put the machine away. Next day went out to do more of the same. Machine is coughing, sluggish, just not "right". Pulled it into the garage, cooled it down, pulled both spark plugs, checking compression and all is good. Plugs looked like new. Ran to store, bought some new ones, slapped them in, boom, fired up running like the finely tuned little machine most Honda engines are known for.
So this is the 3rd time (all 3 BTW) at same time of year and under same circumstances. Spark plug(s) ok one minute DOA the next.