JoeFriday
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Mower has 50 hrs on it.
I originally was starting it with half throttle and choke as needed....but for some reason, I have been starting it with no throttle and mostly no choke....it had been starting fine and almost immediately with no smoke at all....
Then, about 2 weeks ago....I started the mower as usual and mowed my grass (about 1.3 acres) and then shut the mower off just outside my polebarn, after letting it idle at zero throttle for a minute.
It sat for about 40 minutes and I started it up to move it into the polebarn and plumes of smoke (like in the attached video) beloved out of the exhaust and filled my 16 X 24 polebarn.
I simulated this scenario and restarted a day later....and video recorded the start procedure and the attached video is the result....
Since then, I have been starting the mower at 1/2 throttle and 1/2 - full choke and have not had as extensive smoke as in video, but still get an initial blast of smoke that quickly clears up....but it just doesn't seem right to me....I had a John Deere 350X mower with a Kawasaki engine and never had issues like this with it over a 12 years ownership.....
What do you think?