I was mowing for the first time this spring and when I was almost done it shot out a giant plume of white smoke and died. Its a cheap 3 yr old mower. I changed the oil before hand, the air filter looks pretty clean. Should I have done something else to bring it out of winter? I think it overheated probably since I was on a steep hill and the grass was pretty high. Help?
2007-03-25 07:48:25 · 3 answers · asked by thisdogischinese 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
If its a four stroke engine and it blew a cloud of white smoke it sounds like the engine is in trouble. The crankcase oil got into the combustion camber. This could be a hole in the piston or the piston rings have gone. Try and turn the engine by hand. If it will not turn after it has cooled off then the engine is seized. If it will turn, then take out the spark plug. Examine it for oil. It should be dry. Hold you finger over the spark plug hole and turn the engine by hand. You should feel pressure on the compression stroke. If not then there is no compression the engine is probably not worth fixing.
2007-03-25 08:00:03 · answer #1 · answered by frozen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you had it tipped back real far, you could have allowed oil to get into the combustion chamber, basically flooding it with oil. Pull the plug. clean it (wire brush) and with the plug out, pull the cord a few dozen times to clean out combustion chamber,and re-install plug. atempt to start it. Of course if it doesnt start, chack for air, fuel and spark, and further diagnose. I think that if you had overheated and air cooled motor, it would have seized.
2007-03-25 09:16:01 · answer #2 · answered by jeffreychickering 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like you loaded the breather up with oil and it choked out.... Just try to get it started again and don't run it at a very steep angle...
2007-03-26 18:25:21 · answer #3 · answered by 572ci. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋