Rudedog
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I talked about this mower a little bit in the intro thread. I picked this 21" self propelled (which doesn't work) one for free on Saturday afternoon. People wanted $30 for it on Craigs. I was happy to give it just to get my foot in the door with something that already starts and I could tinker with. Well.... I pull on the starter and it shoot a bunch of raw fuel about 18" out of the exhaust and starts right up. As its running it is still running a little raw fuel out of the exhaust and smoking a little. I shut her down and the women says on second thought would you just take it for free so I don't have to dump it. I was happy to oblige. Today I cleaned out all of the old fuel and added some mix that I had in my truck that was Stihl 50:1 synthetic. Got her started and she runs pretty good. I did all of the trim work with it in the yard before I bring out the Wheel Horse 8-25. I ran it a total of 20 minutes and it seemed to grow stronger and does not smoke in the least. It does miss a little but I have yet to truly clean the carb or even check the spark plug.