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sfrasher
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I have an old Craftsman 11HP. I noticed fluid leaking from the breather tube on the carb, so I patched it. This morning I tried to start it and it gushed oil/gas from the oil filler tube. I took off the tube and the whole crankcase was full of gas! It ran like a charm yesterday.
I had stopped the engine with the key, but I did not pull the throttle back to the "off" position. Will this cause it to keep gravity feeding gas to the carb? If this is true, then the crack in the breather tube would have leaked out the gas before it got into the crankcase, so by fixing the tube, I discovered a bigger problem.
Does this all sound feasible?
My main question is "Does gas keep flowing with the engine off but the throttle still in 'rabbit' mode?"
I had stopped the engine with the key, but I did not pull the throttle back to the "off" position. Will this cause it to keep gravity feeding gas to the carb? If this is true, then the crack in the breather tube would have leaked out the gas before it got into the crankcase, so by fixing the tube, I discovered a bigger problem.
Does this all sound feasible?
My main question is "Does gas keep flowing with the engine off but the throttle still in 'rabbit' mode?"