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12apierce

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• Apr 6, 2018 / Flywheel

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John Deere riding lawn mower flywheel sticks and engine will not turn over. Manually turn the flywheel a little and the mower will start. Any ideas?

 

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ILENGINE

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• Apr 6, 2018 / Flywheel

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Is this a Kohler, Briggs and Stratton, or Kawasaki engine. How about supplying your mower model number as well as the model number information from the engine.

 

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• Apr 6, 2018 / Flywheel

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You sure it's not just a dead battery or bad starter. It just makes no sense to me that the "flywheel sticks" yet you can turn it over by hand. :confused2:

 

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• Apr 7, 2018 / Flywheel

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could also be a bad starter bendix.......couple that with a weak battery or poor ground and you get a "Lazy Wheel"

 

Boudreaux In Eunice La.

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• Apr 7, 2018 / Flywheel

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He might be talking about the engine hesitating as in needing a valve adjustment..... When he can get it past the compression stroke by hand then it starts.....

Not sure though.................

 

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• Apr 7, 2018 / Flywheel

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eh.

 

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• Apr 7, 2018 / Flywheel

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Boudreaux In Eunice La. said:

He might be talking about the engine hesitating as in needing a valve adjustment..... When he can get it past the compression stroke by hand then it starts.....

Not sure though.................

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I'm inclined to check the valve lash also, same as Bo depicts it to be the culprit.

 

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• Apr 8, 2018 / Flywheel

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Boudreaux In Eunice La. said:

He might be talking about the engine hesitating as in needing a valve adjustment..... When he can get it past the compression stroke by hand then it starts.....

Not sure though.................

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I was thinking the same thing which is the reason I asked for the engine model number in the first reply on this thread and never received a response.

 

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• Apr 8, 2018 / Flywheel

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don't you just hate it when they never come back to their own thread?

 

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• Apr 8, 2018 / Flywheel

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Yep never get answers hate it