Noah Alkinburgh
09-22-2003, 3:29 PM
Oh great gear heads of the Creek Please come to my aid!!! :)
So yesterday I pull out my mower which I have had for a year and notice some dark wet spots under the air filter. I touch it to see if its fuel and it doesn't really smell that way but does smell like petroleum a bit. I figured it was some water and gas that was on the deck. So I pull it out and start to mow and it is sputtering a coughing and just generally not running good. So I pull off the cover to the air filter and it is soaked. So I though maybe some water had gotten in their and it couldn't breath so I start to wring it out and it is oil!!! I wrung it out as best I could put it back and the mower ran well for the most part. Now my questions are these:
Did something very bad happen to my mower? Is it going to die?
How could the oil have gotten there? I had it on its side to clean under the deck last time but it was tipped so the air filter was on top not on the bottom.
Should I be concerned?
Should I get a new air filter?
Please help me out here. If I ruined my mower my wife is gonna kill me...she will make me sell my lathe guaranteed.
Noah
So yesterday I pull out my mower which I have had for a year and notice some dark wet spots under the air filter. I touch it to see if its fuel and it doesn't really smell that way but does smell like petroleum a bit. I figured it was some water and gas that was on the deck. So I pull it out and start to mow and it is sputtering a coughing and just generally not running good. So I pull off the cover to the air filter and it is soaked. So I though maybe some water had gotten in their and it couldn't breath so I start to wring it out and it is oil!!! I wrung it out as best I could put it back and the mower ran well for the most part. Now my questions are these:
Did something very bad happen to my mower? Is it going to die?
How could the oil have gotten there? I had it on its side to clean under the deck last time but it was tipped so the air filter was on top not on the bottom.
Should I be concerned?
Should I get a new air filter?
Please help me out here. If I ruined my mower my wife is gonna kill me...she will make me sell my lathe guaranteed.
Noah