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dad emailed me today.. it is a KT 715-3098 we have cleaned the shroud and cooling fins of all grass clipping.. but very little debris under the engine cover.. thanks for your help..

thank you for your reply's... the motor is a Kohler kt 915- 3098 dad uses it daily to go back and forth to his barn he has a small cattle operation when not cutting grass with it... he has tried chocking the motor when staring when hot.. no difference the engine shroud and colling fins had very...

thank you for your reply.. was able to go by my dad's place today he lives about an hour and a half away .. took the front cover off very clean checked the connections on the ignition coils.. we drained the fuel tank replaced both the fuel filter and fuel pump.. was good flow at the pump...

it will start when cold most of the time .. but sometimes when warm or hot it is very hard to start any help would be welcomed James

it will start when cold most of the time but when warmed up it sometimes is very hard to restart has a Kohler kt-715 on it any ideas would be helpful... James

thanks to all that posted.. we pulled the head on the side with the lower cylinder pressure found a bad head gasket.. crack near the exhaust valve blow back in the crankcase will report back after we change it..

used an echo pet 4000 spark tester cooling fins are clean it just happened the other day cold or hot it just runs rough a slight popping sound in the muffler as far as hours don't know dad's lawn mower did not think to check it.. oil changes every cutting season has a small lawn had replaced the...

my dad has a kohler model ch25 spec68543 it is running rough has white smoke coming out of the breather tube. the coils checked good new plugs did a compression test 150 psi on one other one 120 psi any help would be greatly apricated...

we finished the repair today... the head gasket was blown old style on it... we also found out the exhaust valve was bad it was very hard to move up and down after we removed the valve springs .. badly charred on the back of the value and inside the valve guide...thanks to all of you for your...

I thank you for your help.. wish you were close by.. the closes shop we have to repair the engine is 40 miles from us.. our toro has a 62 inch deck we don't have a large enough trailer for it. could I ask one more thing about it.. the liters are there any tale tale signs about a bad liter in an...

thanks for your reply...Do we need to lap the new valves and head ?

thank you for your reply it also includes new push rods and rocker arms... we were thinking of replacing lifters to.. do think they could be damaged to? we were thinking about the age of them??

49 we found a blown head gasket and the valve were leaking .. we ordered a new head assembly with valves and gaskets. do we need to lap the new head and valves???

it backfires after it runs a few minutes .. then might run a minute.. then do it again.. it never backfires when you turn it off... no he did not check that..

Again thanks for replying.. I talked to him and he told me this.. this started when noticed excessive smoke in the exhaust... he checked the oil and found a lot of raw gas in the oil .. so he replaced the carburetor thinking it might fix it.. now no gas in the oil..but it still backfires??