Recent content by crabjoe

That might be it, but what I find was weird was the engine didn't bog down and stall like I was in thick grass. You know how a motor's sound changes when you engage/disengage the blades. When it would die, even with the bladed engaged, the sound changed like the blades got disengaged, then...

Ok.. Went and picked up a new vacuum hose. They didn't have the right one, so I took what they had, and it worked! Cranked the motor an gas flowed. Hooked the line back to the carb, cranked and it fired up.. Let it run for about 5 mins then went to mow... engaged the bladed and mowed about...

Similar thing happened to me at the beginning of last year. When I went to start it, it just cranked. I squirted some starter fluid into the air intake then it fired and kept running. I thought I had the same issue this year, but apparently, it's something different.

Where is this date date code? There's something called CODE:140801YG I seems the actual model number on my engine is 44R877 The pic of part 596163 looks like the correct hose. My problem is I can't find a pic of 593641 to see if it's something similar but slight a different length. Thank you

I've got a problem with the same exact motor. Mine seems to be a fuel delivery issue but might be compression. I originally tried sucking on the vacuum side of the fuel pump and nothing, so I just replaced it. I was able to suck some fuel into the filter. There were few cracks in the vacuum...