Recent content by Covah2423

Other than the PTO all other parts were bad and needed replacing. Glad I didn’t listen to the Kawasaki repair guy. He said the motor was shot and needed replacing.

Hopefully final update: Put the head back on, honed the cylinder as much as possible first, adjusted valves on both sides. Cylinder 1 side the adjustments were loose. I did change both coils just to make sure it wasn’t them. It ran a little rough at first and then settled down and smoothed out...

So do you think I am chasing the wrong thing? It starts and runs great until you engage the blades and then pops, misfires for about 15 seconds and clears up most of the time. All pulleys, clutch and belt is new. Thanks for your help.

Other than it will run normal and even when the blades are engaged it clears up after 15 seconds. I did often think it could be a bad coil but than would not account for the low compression.

Update: pulled valves out of head and lapped them back in. They were fine, cleaned them, not much carbon build up.

It was the intake valve. To give you some history last September that same side stopped firing and when I pulled the valve cover off the rocker and bracket that holds it were off in the cover. Pushrod was bent. The bolt for the bracket backed out. I replaced the pushrod and put some lock tight...

Sorry it’s 317 hours not 3170 hours. I must have hit the zero by mistake. Thanks

Thanks for your input. Never intended to use old head gasket, just meant it was not blown

Thanks for your input. Never intended to use old head gasket, just meant it was not blown.

I have a Toro zero turn 60” mower with a Kawasaki FS730V engine. My son and I both use it, we both have 1.5 acres to cut. While he was using it he said it stopped engaging the blades, practically killing the engine. It has 317 hours on it. I changed the PTO or clutch, all pulleys and belt. Belt...