"Dioclese" <NONE> wrote in message
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> "MICHELLE H." <FALCONGIRL@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>> See what I usually do, is when I am done mowing the lawn, I usually
just
>> tilt the lawnmower up on its side, so that I can give the underneath a
>> quick scraping with a metal scraper to remove any debris, sense I have
a
>> jerky neighbor whose a HUGE litterbug, and he likes to let his trash
>> blow all over the place. And while I try to avoid it and pick up all
his
>> stuff that blows into my yard, sometimes I accidently run over rope,
>> string, empty bread bags, etc, etc, that he left in his yard, that blew
>> over to mine.
>>
>> Anyway, if you were standing behind the mower at the handlebars, the
gas
>> tank would be on the right side of the mower, and the oil tank would be
>> on the left side of the mower.
>>
>> I would turn the mower up onto its left side, so that the oil tank
would
>> be closest to the ground, and the gas tank would be higher up on the
>> top. The air filter would be facing straight up toward the sky.
>>
>> This is when the mower would leak the gas through the air filter!!!!!
>> The mower would be up on its left side, the oil and gas tanks would be
>> facing the ground, and the air filter would be facing straight upwards,
>> but gas would leak out into the air filter and through it, getting all
>> over the mower and the ground!!!!
>>
>> This is what I couldn't understand?? HOW can gas leak into, and through
>> the air filter, if the gas in the tank is toward the ground, and the
air
>> filter right above it is toward the sky??? How can the gas LEAK
>> UPWARDS?????
>>
>> So when I dropped it off at Sears, they told me that the crankshaft was
>> bent, and this IS what was causing the gas to leak through the air
>> filter, and that if I spent the $160 to have them replace the bent
>> crankshaft, then the gas leak would stop.
>>
>> I figured that they were telling the truth, and with gas prices at
>> almost $5 dollars a gallon, I don't want to waste a drop of gas, so I
>> already told them to go ahead and do it, and make the repair!!!!
>>
>> So now it looks like I am going to be out $160 dollars, and end up
>> bringing the thing home, and have it still leak gas!?
>>
>> I know that when I told my father that they wanted $160 dollars to fix
>> the mower, he said "for a $160 dollars, you should just buy a NEW
>> mower!!!". I guess I should have listened to him, RIGHT???
>>
>> The funny thing is, the mower is only 2 years old, and none of this
>> happened during the 1st year when I bought it brand new in 2006?? I
>> would always do the same thing and turn it up on its left side, so that
>> I could clean off any debris underneath. Then last summer, it started
>> leaking the gas UPWARDS through the air filter when turned on its left
>> side?????
>>
>
> Well, to begin with: Sears uses Briggs and Stratton engines. As viewed
> from the rear of the mower, the gas tank is and always was on the left
for
> push mowers.
>
> Yep, the $160.00 gotcha. Things never change. One can buy a new mower
> for what they are charging to "fix" it. Listen to your "pops", if not
me.
>
> Either way, never leave the mower on its side for any appreciable amount
> of time.
>
> You might do a cleanup of the yard of appreciable trash that clings to
the
> mowers underside crankshaft end and blade before mowing.
>
> As for another reply, he/she has the right idea. Never mow while the
> grass is wet. The only exception is to please the local homeowners
> association as the grass is too long due to extended rainy periods.
> Sounds doubtful due to your neighbor's trash ac***ulating on your yard.
> In addition, you should allow the grass to grow at least 2" in height or
> more before mowing to decrease the irrigation/watering needed. If you
> have alot of weeds, attack immediately before flowering begins.
> --
> Dave
>
> Parkinson's disease, not easy to define.
> Much less cure.
>
My bust. The gas tank is on the right hand side of the Briggs and
Stratton
engine.
--
Dave
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