Recent content by cuda383

Welcome to the forum. The best thing for your carburetor is to use non ethanol gas. Stabil will work if you can't get non ethanol. Just follow your maintenance schedule and change out the break in oil at the beginning. Not sure how many hours it is. Some are after the first 5 hrs. As far as...

More info needed. Have you changed the drive belt recently? If the belt is the wrong size the mower will continue to overide the brakes.

I used the ST3614 in the past with no issues for 11 years on a previous ride on I had.

Well for me it was the deck belt rattling on the bottom retainer bracket. When the deck belt is not engaged it has a decent amount of slack and does not make this sound when the blades are engaged. Hope this helps someone in the future.

I know the OP sent his back to the retailer. This guy in the video seems to have the same sound. Need to turn the volume way up, you can hear it when he comes around to the instrument panel. It's only at the very beginning, had to keep playing it over and over. Maybe it's just the nature of...

Thanks for the update! I'm hoping it's nothing serious as I have no warranty buying used. When I test drove the tractor it sounded fine. It seems as though it started after longer runs.

Did you find out anything yet? I purchased a used one recently and have about 18 hrs. on it and have a similar noise to yours.