forgetaboudit
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Hello all,
First time poster here. I bought a Landlord 18hp hydro (1692442 or 1692576) this Spring, and have been having issues with it the last 2 months.
First, I'd be running it for more than 20, and then shut the blades off and letting it idle for 2 minutes... Id go to reengage the blades, but they'd spin for less than a second and the engine would shut down. I'd go to restart it and it wouldn't hardly turn over. I'd have to push it back to the garage and charge the battery. (It is a brand new battery and I've had it tested and all is well with it.)
Just recently while running it for 30 minutes without stopping it'll run rough while going up a hill, or when getting into a little thicker grass. But the whole time before the 20 minutes, it'll run sweet. Seems that when it warms up it'll get bad. Now when I go to fire it up, the oil pressure light is out, until about 10 seconds of idling and it'll flicker on and off for a few seconds, and then stay on all the time. The oil was changed when I bought it, and is at the correct level and looks clean and smells fine.
Some repairs and fixes I've done...
Removed the shroud to check the magnetos, and found a huge mouse nest on the left cylinder as well as chew marks on that magneto. Also, I found that magneto wire was melted, the wire to the solenoid on the bottom of the carb was melted, as well as the stickers on the air cleaner box and the flywheel screen. I cleaned all the debris out, replaced that coil, and the wire to the carb solenoid. I then started having issues not getting power to the starter, so I replaced the starter solenoid, and now the key switch which solved that issue. I have a friend coming over tonight with an oil pressure tester. Does anyone know what pressure its suppose to run at? I checked the vent in the fuel cap and it seems to be clean and clear.
So if anyone has any insight or solutions for me for the problems I'm having, that'd be wonderful.
First time poster here. I bought a Landlord 18hp hydro (1692442 or 1692576) this Spring, and have been having issues with it the last 2 months.
First, I'd be running it for more than 20, and then shut the blades off and letting it idle for 2 minutes... Id go to reengage the blades, but they'd spin for less than a second and the engine would shut down. I'd go to restart it and it wouldn't hardly turn over. I'd have to push it back to the garage and charge the battery. (It is a brand new battery and I've had it tested and all is well with it.)
Just recently while running it for 30 minutes without stopping it'll run rough while going up a hill, or when getting into a little thicker grass. But the whole time before the 20 minutes, it'll run sweet. Seems that when it warms up it'll get bad. Now when I go to fire it up, the oil pressure light is out, until about 10 seconds of idling and it'll flicker on and off for a few seconds, and then stay on all the time. The oil was changed when I bought it, and is at the correct level and looks clean and smells fine.
Some repairs and fixes I've done...
Removed the shroud to check the magnetos, and found a huge mouse nest on the left cylinder as well as chew marks on that magneto. Also, I found that magneto wire was melted, the wire to the solenoid on the bottom of the carb was melted, as well as the stickers on the air cleaner box and the flywheel screen. I cleaned all the debris out, replaced that coil, and the wire to the carb solenoid. I then started having issues not getting power to the starter, so I replaced the starter solenoid, and now the key switch which solved that issue. I have a friend coming over tonight with an oil pressure tester. Does anyone know what pressure its suppose to run at? I checked the vent in the fuel cap and it seems to be clean and clear.
So if anyone has any insight or solutions for me for the problems I'm having, that'd be wonderful.