Wirespider01
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Hello everyone.
I have a craftsman dys 450 54" cut with a 26 kohler.. It was my workhorse.
I really keep up on the maintenance of this machine. In fact last year I put a lot of money into by buying a new deck, blades and so on. The deck wasn't too bad I just like to practice preventative maintenance. It's has over 300 hours on it. Oil is changed once a season along with plugs and so on.
This year I had to rebuild the carburetor (I ran it empty at the end of the season last year but I forgot to drain the carb from the bottom). After doing so it didn't start up so I hit it with starting fluid. It started up. Btw, I'm not sure if it was the ether exploding or what but I heard a good knock when I hit it with ether.
Right away I notice while it's still sitting in the garage it seems too have lost some power. The rpms are not all there. I recheck the fuel solenoid and a few other things and the carb was good. I take it outside start going down a incline and it starts blowing white smoke and it was missing. I get to level ground and it clears out. I never had the engine tilted while working on it so I'm thinking breather. I take it back in the garage and pull the breather hose and baffle and it seems good.
So I start it again. This time it blows white smoke when I start it. I go out into my front yard that is level and it blows smoke so bad it smothers the engine and shuts it off. I get off and walk around to the front of the mower and it looks like there's fresh oil around the exhaust. So I let it sit for a few hours. I come back out to start it to see if I can find the source of the oil leak and it takes forever to start. When it does I can't move 10 feet because there so much oil smoke I can't see. I go around to the front again and where I was trying to start it the exhausts blew oil all over my grass. I was done for the day. A couple days later I go back at it. I notice the time it sat there, oil has ran out the exhaust.
I'm really thinking that the ether blew a head gasket or worse.
What do you all think? I got a new zero turn mower but I would like to get my workhorse running again. It's a really good strong 2008 Kohler when it runs. I have no troubles tearing the block down, it's just that im not exactly sure of how far I need to tear it down. I'm sure the crank is good.
Thank you again.
I have a craftsman dys 450 54" cut with a 26 kohler.. It was my workhorse.
I really keep up on the maintenance of this machine. In fact last year I put a lot of money into by buying a new deck, blades and so on. The deck wasn't too bad I just like to practice preventative maintenance. It's has over 300 hours on it. Oil is changed once a season along with plugs and so on.
This year I had to rebuild the carburetor (I ran it empty at the end of the season last year but I forgot to drain the carb from the bottom). After doing so it didn't start up so I hit it with starting fluid. It started up. Btw, I'm not sure if it was the ether exploding or what but I heard a good knock when I hit it with ether.
Right away I notice while it's still sitting in the garage it seems too have lost some power. The rpms are not all there. I recheck the fuel solenoid and a few other things and the carb was good. I take it outside start going down a incline and it starts blowing white smoke and it was missing. I get to level ground and it clears out. I never had the engine tilted while working on it so I'm thinking breather. I take it back in the garage and pull the breather hose and baffle and it seems good.
So I start it again. This time it blows white smoke when I start it. I go out into my front yard that is level and it blows smoke so bad it smothers the engine and shuts it off. I get off and walk around to the front of the mower and it looks like there's fresh oil around the exhaust. So I let it sit for a few hours. I come back out to start it to see if I can find the source of the oil leak and it takes forever to start. When it does I can't move 10 feet because there so much oil smoke I can't see. I go around to the front again and where I was trying to start it the exhausts blew oil all over my grass. I was done for the day. A couple days later I go back at it. I notice the time it sat there, oil has ran out the exhaust.
I'm really thinking that the ether blew a head gasket or worse.
What do you all think? I got a new zero turn mower but I would like to get my workhorse running again. It's a really good strong 2008 Kohler when it runs. I have no troubles tearing the block down, it's just that im not exactly sure of how far I need to tear it down. I'm sure the crank is good.
Thank you again.