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or the fuel put in it has a problem. A friend one time grabbed the kerosene instead of gas. Spent a whole day trying to figure why he...

engine noises like a piston or rod seizing typically are thunking or knocking. A squeal is high pitched and would not get out of the...

did you soak the area in Liquid Wrench or PB Blaster, Knock er Loose, etc., for 24 hours first?

unless you have an engine that has the kill mechanism that is shared with the choke (and some do), it should not as you said, die on all...

we have a 20055 that I just overhauled. It was taking 12 primes and two pulls to start cold. Had good compression, etc., just had 20...

I'd run over to O'Reillys, Napa, Autozone, or maybe your local larger lawn mower shop and buy a new (Probably NGK or Champion RJ19LM)...

scoring is much common on air cooled engines than water cooled. The depth of the scores will depend upon what scored it.

I would make sure that the plug is a genuine one. What happens these days is someone lets a machine like a Mantis sit. It fails to run...

ask yourself how long you will use it on each occasion. Then decide whether to go ev or gas. We have both. The ev does blow more, but...

does the air cleaner have a breather in it that could be spewing lots of blowby, oil or water vapor?

carbon deposits and getting hot.

Don't assume that it is held in by threads and rust, although it probably is because you have already tried an extractor. The shaft and...

sometimes people clean the old plug with a wire brush and try to reuse it. Wire brushes will leave some of themselves in the porcelain...

now you know the problem is that the left side is weak. One of three is missing on that cylinder - air/fuel, spark, or compression.

you said you tried new fuel. Did you drain the tank, and the carb, then try new fuel? If there is old fuel in the bowl, new fuel in the...