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Posted by on May 21, 2007, 11:59 pm
Whenever I do any work under my push mower which has a 3.5hp briggs
engine, I end up flooding the engine with oil. Then its horrible to
start again, and when it does the smoke is horrible. I do know better
than to flip it upside down, but to take off the blade for sharpening,
or tighten the wheels (which are always coming loose), I have to put
it on its side. I dread doing that, because I know I'll have to fight
with it for an hour to start it again, which means removing the plug,
cleaning the cylinder with gas, draining the oily gas, and then
pulling the rope about 100 times to finally start it, aftrer which I
risk the EPA arresting me because of all the smoke.
Is there any way to prevent this problem? I did try putting the mower
on blocks and working under it, but when it fell on my face I gave up
on that idea. I do know that the oil comes up that blowby pipe or
whatever thats called. Should I get a rubber cap for it, or will the
oil come up another way? THere has got to be a better way to do this.
Tom
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Posted by Noozer on May 22, 2007, 12:16 am
> Is there any way to prevent this problem? I did try putting the mower
> on blocks and working under it, but when it fell on my face I gave up
> on that idea. I do know that the oil comes up that blowby pipe or
> whatever thats called. Should I get a rubber cap for it, or will the
> oil come up another way? THere has got to be a better way to do this.
Try tipping it in a different direction?
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Posted by dpb on May 22, 2007, 12:26 am
On May 21, 10:59 pm, t&j-sm...@nospam.com wrote:
> Whenever I do any work under my push mower which has a 3.5hp briggs
> engine, I end up flooding the engine with oil. Then its horrible to
> start again, and when it does the smoke is horrible. I do know better
> than to flip it upside down, but to take off the blade for sharpening,
> or tighten the wheels (which are always coming loose), I have to put
> it on its side. I dread doing that, because I know I'll have to fight
> with it for an hour to start it again, which means removing the plug,
> cleaning the cylinder with gas, draining the oily gas, and then
> pulling the rope about 100 times to finally start it, aftrer which I
> risk the EPA arresting me because of all the smoke.
>
> Is there any way to prevent this problem? I did try putting the mower
> on blocks and working under it, but when it fell on my face I gave up
> on that idea. I do know that the oil comes up that blowby pipe or
> whatever thats called. Should I get a rubber cap for it, or will the
> oil come up another way? THere has got to be a better way to do this.
Certainly see no reason it needs to go all the way over on it's side
-- all it should take is raising the front or rear or the discharge
side a couple of inches to reach under and remove the blade --
certainly not enough to flood the engine w/ oil to any great extent.
Same thing for wheels -- all it takes is one off the ground at a time.
If it's inconvenient to get to the ground, pick it up and set it on a
workbench at a convenient height.
If you have some real physical disability that prevents that, guess
you could get the motorcycle lift and use it or similar.
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Posted by Steve Barker on May 22, 2007, 2:11 am
t&j-smith@nospam.com wrote:
> Whenever I do any work under my push mower which has a 3.5hp briggs
> engine, I end up flooding the engine with oil. Then its horrible to
> start again, and when it does the smoke is horrible. I do know better
> than to flip it upside down, but to take off the blade for sharpening,
> or tighten the wheels (which are always coming loose), I have to put
> it on its side. I dread doing that, because I know I'll have to fight
> with it for an hour to start it again, which means removing the plug,
> cleaning the cylinder with gas, draining the oily gas, and then
> pulling the rope about 100 times to finally start it, aftrer which I
> risk the EPA arresting me because of all the smoke.
>
> Is there any way to prevent this problem? I did try putting the mower
> on blocks and working under it, but when it fell on my face I gave up
> on that idea. I do know that the oil comes up that blowby pipe or
> whatever thats called. Should I get a rubber cap for it, or will the
> oil come up another way? THere has got to be a better way to do this.
>
> Tom
Try putting it on it's "other" side and see if that helps.
--
Steve Barker
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Posted by on May 22, 2007, 3:51 am
On May 21, 10:59 pm, t&j-sm...@nospam.com wrote:
> Whenever I do any work under my push mower which has a 3.5hp briggs
> engine, I end up flooding the engine with oil. Then its horrible to
> start again, and when it does the smoke is horrible. I do know better
> than to flip it upside down, but to take off the blade for sharpening,
> or tighten the wheels (which are always coming loose), I have to put
> it on its side. I dread doing that, because I know I'll have to fight
> with it for an hour to start it again, which means removing the plug,
> cleaning the cylinder with gas, draining the oily gas, and then
> pulling the rope about 100 times to finally start it, aftrer which I
> risk the EPA arresting me because of all the smoke.
>
> Is there any way to prevent this problem? I did try putting the mower
> on blocks and working under it, but when it fell on my face I gave up
> on that idea. I do know that the oil comes up that blowby pipe or
> whatever thats called. Should I get a rubber cap for it, or will the
> oil come up another way? THere has got to be a better way to do this.
>
> Tom
I put the handle under a car bumper.
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