I had the same thing happen to a car a long time ago, Back when I worked on them myself. It ran on five cylinders and the 6th one had a tiny hole in it and it acted like a pump to pressurize the crankcase. That is the only way to explain oil shooting out the crankcase: Somehow cylinder compression is getting in around the pistons. You will be able to see it with the head removed. Yes, it could be a head gasket if compression gets into an oil passage that leads back to the crankcase.
As for garden tools. All my gas powered stuff is gone. I'm 100% electric. It is all battery powered. Zero maintenance and they always work. My next car will be electric too. On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 3:17 PM Gene Heskett <[email protected]> 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 > 3/4" plastic to reach from the meter into the house. Has been sitting > there in the open gate to the back yard, gas shut off, tank nearly full. > > So yesterday I tried to start it, but everytime I get it to a throttle > where it will mow, 3 seconds later a huge cloud of oil smoke and it > dies, repeat till the battery is wiped out. > > Get up this morning, check the oil & its 1/2" overfull??? Put the medium > sized automatic charger on it for about 4 hours while I go get a few > things from the grocery store and stop at Fred's place & make a deal on > a Craftsman about 10 years old, a 46" with a hydraulic tranny and a 26 > hp v-twin to spin it, comes with a new deck and some wheel weights but > it will take Fred 3 days or so to get it ready to load. His grandboy > help is fishing in Canada. $850. > > Come back, pull the carb and clean it, put it back totether, fires right > at about a 600 rev idle. Left the cleaner off because its oil soaked.??? > > 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 > -- > "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 > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
