Recent content by NY 345

Fair point about the parts source, mostly. The first one was a Stens, which is a pretty big name in replacement parts, not a no-name knock-off from Amazon. And the bad part had a 1 year warranty, which they honored by refunding the full purchase price, no questions asked. So at this point, I...

Thanks for the reply and suggestions, PT. As I thought through the symptoms some more, I became persuaded that the problem had to be in the fuel pump -- some kind of diaphragm failure, probably -- even though it was brand new. I just didn't see a better explanation for how so much fuel could...

A mystery (to me) that I hope someone here can help me solve. I have a JD 345 — around a 1999 model. I recently replaced what I think was the original fuel pump because it was leaking out the weep hole after shut down. The new pump has a rubber overflow hose instead of a weep hole (which was a...