Saturday- morning.
No idea what to do about the grass. The mower won't start, I may just remove the fuel line and see if any fuel is even getting through there. I didn't even think about that yesterday. My mind was like: this is a brand new mower that cost almost $400, hasn't been used that much and already giving me trouble? I know it's a fuel problem because I can pour fuel into the choke and it will fire right up and run for a few seconds.
I really need to mow the grass over there, having a mower sent to the manufacturer to be repair sounds like it would take weeks, at least. What kind of useless warranty is that? You call Craftsman for warranty work and you will hear people whose first language is clearly not English. Not a fan of international call centers, not at all.
I am going to take that other mower I bought - and got a lot of use out of actually - to a shop and see if they can fix that one as well. I think it also has a fuel problem. l just don't see the new one having a bad carb this soon.
Okay, I have no idea what would block the line on a brand new mower, but I have suspect the fuel is blocked somehow. I wonder if that kid in the park dumped something into the fuel tank? I'm going to go over in a while, drain the fuel out of the tank if it will drain and take a look. If it doesn't drain, well there's the problem, something is preventing fuel from flowing into the fuel line. If it does flow, then I dunno, a bad carburetor already?
I also just contacted a local guy who does small engine repair. But he's not open until Monday so that doesn't help me. I have 3 mowers, actually, that should be fixable. The 3rd one is one we've had at the house forever, it ran like a champ for a long time and then finally quit.
On another note, I installed Steam on my desktop to accommodate for playing a game. Well, Steam took over my speakers. With nothing coming out, I ended up uninstalling steam audio from the device manager. That didn't work, so I uninstalled Steam altogether. That did work, so I thought I was good. 2 days later? Sound went out again. Device manager - steam somehow reinstalled itself after deleting the entire app? Uninstalled again and all I heard was cackling. Racking my brains, I checked the main speaker and it was partially unplugged. I had checked it earlier but didn't realize I had partially pulled the connection out.
Computers. Sigh.
Ok. Time to get this day moving. I'm going to at least try to get that mower going. I'm certainly not buying another new mower to replace a - new mower? I will sent it back to the manufacturer if that's what it takes, but I really think I can either fix it or someone local can in a fraction of the time sending it to the manufacturer would take.
G'day
2 comments:
I feel your lawnmower pain. I bought my most recent brand new one last century and it still starts and runs well. But all my ride-on mowers have been gotten second hand. I do not know what I would do if it were not for the expertise of a neighbor who is talented, available and friendly.
Computers...again, without some knowledgeable friends, I would be lost. There IS a local guy who has done very well for me from time to time, but spilling hot chocolate into a keyboard was beyond his remit.
I think I have the thing figured out after fooling with it. There IS fuel getting to the carburetor and when I dump fuel through the choke, it starts up and runs fine for a few seconds. I'm assuming carburetors still have floats and bowls and I'm assuming the float is stuck, or perhaps cracked and full of fuel and won't float at all. I dunno, but it is likely a new carburetor will fix the problem. As for computers, I have spent many hours of my life trying to figure out problems. Even with Youtube videos and reading tutorials, it can still take forever to figure out problems.
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