On Tuesday 04 June 2019 06:41:24 pm Ed wrote: > On 6/4/19 5:15 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > A month ago my old JD rider was running clean and did the front yard > > nicely, then I had a water leak and used it to stretch out a coil of > > 3 > > > > Let it idle while I corral tools, come back and going to cut about > > 1/4 of the back yard. Wind it up to about 2500 & start to engage the > > deck. geiser of oil shoots about 4 feet up in the air out of the > > crankcase vent hose. > > > > Also looks like small leak in head gasket below the exhaust valve. > > Par for the course for a Briggs & this one says 11 hp. > > > > So it looks like I deal for the bigger craftsman, The $16 question > > is whats most likely wrong with the engine? This,I'm guessing is > > more than a head gasket. But is it worth tearing down to see? > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Most likely a cracked or broken piston, under load it passes a lot of > gas and takes the oil along. > > > Thats what you get for buying a Briggs & Scrapiron. > Thats one way to put it, but it came with the mower, which fwiw, has a 13 hp decal on the hood, so it is a replacement motor sometime in the last 20 years. I only have a couple bills in it, Fred and I both knew it was about shot. It ran 3 years so it doesn't owe me much. If I was really broke, there's a craftsman with a 12.5 in it that ran ok, but the tranny is stuck in 2nd gear. If I had 2 weeks to screw with it, I'd put the rear end out of the JD in the craftsman. Might yet. > > Ed. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
