33R877-0003-G1 cracked block

ILENGINE said:

Wouldn't take much of an angle with the discharge blowing grass down the slope, because the oil slinger in on the same side as the broken block, crack.. I am suspecting oil starvation myself.

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bertsmobile1 said:

I killed 2 engines mowing across a slope.
The landlord has an orchard & we mow between the rows of trees with a real tractor and then around then with ride ons.
Driving around 10' circles 14' apart was enough to kill 2 engines in my mowers and 1 in his.
Solution was as previously mentioned and get a mower with a horizontal crank.
In his case some old 2000 series Cubs & I use a 24" 2 stroke walk behind to do the fine finishing around the mulch & irrigation pipes .

Pull the engine out , flip it over and pull the sump off.
The oil level is 1/4" below the joint.
I keep one here which I fill with water, stretch some cling wrap over the top then tip it far enough to starve the oil pump / slinger to show my customers just how slope sensitive these engines are, and the bigger the engine, the more sensitive they are .

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