TheBanyanTree: Jumping Off The Mower

[paul]

My "new" mower does the backfire thing.  Unlike the old riding mower
that never backfired, the new mower has a Briggs and Stratton engine
with overhead valves and even has a pressurized oil system like a car...
complete with a cute (and expensive) little oil filter.

It's my second "new mower".  The first mowed most of the yard and when I
turned it off it backfired and that was that.  Jumped time or something.

I'm afraid the newest new mower will do the same.  Yeah, I read the
directions about turning the engine off at full throttle.  It still
backfires once in a while.  As the mower ages, the backfires are more often.

I have a fix.  I'm going to put a shut-off valve in the fuel line.  I've
never had a lawnmower backfire when it runs out of gas.

paul



NancyIee at aol.com said the following on 6/17/2007 5:51 PM:
> 
> Since I have five acres to mow, and since it looked like rain today,
> I wanted to mow as much, as fast as I could until rainfall. I have a
> John Deere rider, and it's sometimes hard to start.  We have  had 
> mighty rains a week or so ago, so the grass was tall enough to bail
> for  hay.  I started slow to get through the thickest stuff, and
> carve my way  around trees, the pool cage, the hose I forgot to pick
> up, and the picnic  table and benches. I don't get off to move them,
> since the mower shuts off when  my fanny leaves the seat.  I just
> charge on, coming as close as I can. I aimed to mow one tankful of
> gas, or rainfall, whichever came first.  I  did the driveway, the
> front, the patch of nrush near the orange grove, and the low spot
> that always has deep grass. I whipped around the rose bushes, and 
> ducked under tree branches. I am always aware which way the grass
> bits blow, since I don't want stuff in the pool or left in the
> driveway. I was just cutting around the two little fig trees when I
> felt the first drops. I would have mowed a bit longer, but thunder
> and lightning came, and I didn't think it wise to mow under
> lightning. I pulled up next to the garage and got ready.
> One-two-three . .I  coicked the mower off and leaped from the seat in
> one smooth motion. I got ten  feet or so from the machine before. .
> KAPOW!! See, the mower, when it's shut down, waits a second, then
> backfires. There was another in my past that, when shut off, would
> wait, then backfire. . and catch fire.  This one hasn't done the fire
> thing, but I am taking no chances. I really need to get it tuned up.
> lol. NancyLee
> 
> 



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