Recent content by gblanchard

Had this issue a few years back. Try taking off gas cap for a test run. I ended up drilling a tiny hole in mine and never had issue again. I suspect a new cap may have also fixed it.

I have an 18hp 42" Poulan Pro. Fairly often the belt (drive) slips off the idler wheel and of course forward momentum stops dead. I have replaced the idler wheel recently and I noticed there is a belt keeper that does not seem to be bolted in and will slide out enough to allow the belt to get...

This weekend while mowing the back yard the mower was running fine, ran well through the leaves and small branches. Then all of the sudden it died. Seems quite hard to pull and will not start or even come close to it. I checked the fuel (half tank), oil (seems a bit dirty and perhaps a bit low...