I've been posting these in teh chat thread but hey...might as well give them their own thread. Not quite "smiley stories" since text is required...
Today I went to mow the lawn. I decided to try putting some thicker oil in the ol' Craftsman mower to quiet the rod knock. I went to where I thought I had put the old differential oil out of my truck and the bottles were empty.
I opened an unidentified oil bottle next to that which I figured must be where it is. It doesn't look or smell like 80w90 gear oil.
I can't find the drain cock (uh huhuhuhuhh he said cock) on the mower so I RTFM (luckily I had downloaded it before). It says you just tip the mower on its side and let the oil drain out of the oil fill hole.
Ok, whatever dude.
I drain the oil, put in the stuff that may or may not be used 80w90 gear oil, pour the lawnmower's old oil into a bottle, go to start the mower. Pull, fire, stall. Pull, fire, stall.
Ok, maybe I'll try the old MTD mower that I keep thinking one day I'll fix. Pull, fire, stall.
I take the air filter housing off and spray starting fluid in. It runs as long as I spray starting fluid and stalls when I quit.
I give up on the MTD.
I resume working on the Crapsman. I start it and immediately start pumping the priming bulb like I'm giving it CPR.
It runs as long as I keep pumping. I quit pumping and it still runs.
I think it's good.
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I'm wrong. It stalls.
I give the primer a few pumps and start the engine, then immediately fiddle with the throttle/governor linkage. RPM goes up and I fear for my life, worried that parts will come whizzing out at 800mph.
After revving it up too high a few times and holding it a little higher than normal for a minute or two I let go and it runs without stalling.
I mow the lawn, come in and post this, and pop a beer and/or maybe some tequila.
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