Recent content by snowslider

In a previous thread I wrote about gasoline shooting out of the air cleaner like a geyser, now fixed. The engine will now run for about 30-60 seconds before dying. It smokes like crazy and there is oil in the air filter housing. I figure the valve guides are shot. At this point I'm thinking...

Greetings, I recently acquired what I thought was a good used a Billy Goat Outback brush cutter "mower". Sadly it has multiple problems that did not show up during a trial run. One is that after about a minute of operation the engine dies. I took the air filter off, and found the reason the...