Recent content by melvin1942

Have you checked the flatness of the head and block?

Remove the head, take a straight edge Across both head and block. Use a feeler gauge and see if you and put it between the straight edge and the head and also between straight efce and block.

Have you checked the head to see if it is flat. It could be warped. Also check the block.

Does this have a hand brake? if it does have you checked to see if it is engaged?

I have a 1997 616 grasshopper that when I mower with it in about an hour it starts to lug down. I disengage the blades and it runs good. When I disengage and then try to engage the blades again the clutch will not work. I let it set over night and when I go back out the next day it works good...

I have I 18 hp Vanguard engine. I need to know what the compression should be. I have checked the compression and I show 135 on the left side facing the flywheel and 120 on the right. I have to replace the dip stick tube seal every once in a while and was wanting to know if this could cause...

I have A 18 hp Vanguard engine on a 616 Grasshopper mower that I would know what the compression should be. I have checked the compression and have found that on the left side facing the flywheel I have 135 lbs. on the right I have 120 lbs. I would like to know if the right could be putting...

I have a problem with the dip stick tube seal on my Briggs Vanguard 18 HP engine. I have replaced it 4 times once when I overhauled the engine and 3 times since then. 2 times I could not find any of the seal where they went I do not know. The last time the seal was there but was split. I...