I have a used Poulan Pro 500EX with an Intek 19.5hp 502cc engine. We bought the lawnmower a year ago when we bought our house with a half acre yard. It ran great all spring, summer, fall. We keep it in shed where it stayed for the winter. I pulled it out to start mowing again and it runs quite bad.It starts but is smoking badly and running inconsistently and if I try to mow, it continuously dies. I notice that there appears to be some fluid on the muffler but the oil level is good. whatever is on the muffler is definitely burning off but there appears to me to be smoke blowing out of the exhaust when the engine idles down and acts like it is going to die. When it kicks back up to higher rpms, the smoke seems to reduce.
I'm Looking for trouble shooting help as I would prefer to fix myself rather than having to rent a trailer to take it to a shop. below is a link to a video. my wife is out so I couldn't get off the seat due to the kill switch.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6Q6hociNSNbTXkyTW9EUnRyNDg
Adding a note: the smoke is white (maybe blue? but looks white to me.) That shows on the video.
I'm Looking for trouble shooting help as I would prefer to fix myself rather than having to rent a trailer to take it to a shop. below is a link to a video. my wife is out so I couldn't get off the seat due to the kill switch.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6Q6hociNSNbTXkyTW9EUnRyNDg
Adding a note: the smoke is white (maybe blue? but looks white to me.) That shows on the video.
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