Twiggy
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if you turn them upside down to clean it out and then try and start it there is oil and white smoke coming out the exhuast and oil where the air filter is......
is the mower fucked
[Edited on 28-06-2007 by Twiggy]
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topshot_2k
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upside down or on its side?
sounds fucked, although mine did it for about 10mins then cleared. fit new filter.
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Jay
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Registered: 26th Sep 04
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Used to always do this in work (gardener) and they were fine after a bit, got bollocked for it though
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mattk
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mine did it last week! I took the engine out stripped it down and put it back together,
thats a bit drastic though, i only did it cause i was bored, just keep it running and it will clear
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Twiggy
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lol! turns out the oil went past the piston and got in the zorst and spark plug?!
mad shit! 
[Edited on 28-06-2007 by Twiggy]
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flame1987
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Registered: 20th Nov 06
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sure its not petrol coming out of air filter?
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SAL
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it will pass after a while, just in future, turn the mover onto its oil side (dipstick side)
slovak done this at work the other day and he smoked out most the school for a while 
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Kerry
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Funny you mention this because i just literally did it about an hour ago!!
Anyone got any tips on how to free the throttle up a bit its getting really stiff, got a piece of string to hold it to save on the hand tried wd40 but no change 
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Twiggy
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the hire place had to strip it and change plug and filter and clean it all up!
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