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Didn't get any mail Monday but your post made me smile. I can visualize those dogs.

Then he needs to look at the spark plug, post #7.

In the meantime, if it doesn't have a fuel shutoff valve in the fuel line, install one and use it every time you shut the engine off. It's a stop gap and shouldn't be necessary but it works.

The old carburetor was working for 30 minutes. I doubt if it suddenly gave up the ghost. It is probably not GETTING any fuel to to send the engine and it sounds like the new carb isn't either. What happens when you dribble a SMALL amount of fuel into the carburetor throat? Will it fire...

I doubt if it has a fuel shutoff valve. Replace the fuel lines if they're stiff or cracked. Replace fuel filter. Put the old carb back on and give it a try. This is a good time to replace the air filter if it hasn't been replaced recently. Return the new carb for credit, if you can. If it...

On the farm, by far. I didn't live on a farm but had hay trucks in high school. If you worked on a hay crew, you didn't need to go to the gym. Which was just as well because there were no gyms back then.

It should only cost a few bucks to put a new tube on your old carburetor. I'll bet that fixes it. This isn't the one for your engine but just a representative of the price, etc. There are you tube videos on how to replace it...

Take a GOOD look at that pickup tube. It has a screen on the bottom or it might be cracked. These things are sensitive to fuel level in the tank as well. High manifold pressure will also reduce the ability of the tube to draw fuel from the tank. My musings about how the carb works is more...

The fuel pickup tube on this style of integrated tank/carburetor has a check ball in it. If it leaks, it takes numerous pulls to refill that tube before it gets to the venturi of the carburetor. It is replaceable. There is no float chamber, float or needle and seat. The fuel tank itself...

Is a '4-srew pump' a fuel pump? If so, have you checked it? When an engine winds down under load, it is usually because it isn't getting enough fuel. When it does that, remove the load and reduce the speed to idle before it dies. Let it idle for a couple minutes, then apply the load again...

Short answer? None, if you're going to hit those rocks regularly. Golf ball sized rocks would be rough on a bush hog. Marble size rocks might make lethal projectiles. I think they make spring-tooth rakes that would do a pretty good job of gathering up the majority of the rocks.

What is this 'big air hammer' of which you speak? The aforementioned 2 lb brass hammer used to give the center bolt a good whack is the best tool for that job. If you can feel any end play in the crankshaft, pull it toward you so that there is a little room for the crankshaft to move when the...

Leaks between the throttle shaft and carb body can cause surging, too.

Spelling means everything to search engines. Spell it like this--homelite hb25150 recoil spring--and see what turns up.

I've been listening to Billy Strings, a metalhead guitarist who's doing bluegrass now. Also, Leonid & Friends, a Russian cover band that sounds more like Chicago than Chicago. In fact, Danny Seraphin, the original Chicago drummer, sits in with them occasionally.

I know a person who has the 72" Vanguard combination. He seems very happy with it but is only mowing three acres with it. I would imagine the payoff for buying the Kubota-powered version would show up in reduced fuel and maintenance costs. If you already have three tractors, have you...

Nobody is. They were trying to help you.

Who makes the engine? It looks like it's a Kubota engine. They're virtually bulletproof. They're loud when warming up and like any diesel, maintenance is minimal. All they need is regular oil & filter changes and the fuel and air filters changed. The only thing I recommend, if it doesn't come...

You're right but the story doesn't stop there. As near as I can tell, the horizontal shaft engine drives a horizontal shaft going to the mower. It may be that all of the things we're seeing in the above are working fine and the problem lies with the mechanism on the mower that turns horizontal...

Check that vacuum is getting to #23. If so, #23 may be bad. If no vacuum at #23, check the vacuum lines (not shown) running between #23 and #16 and from #16 to engine for leaks. If vacuum is present at #16 but not at #23, #16 may be bad or not receiving a signal to open. Is there another page...

Resolved.

Yes, the spin-on fuel filter will have a regular replacement interval. Check with both the mower and the engine manufacturer to see which one has the more stringent change interval. Here's the one you mentioned. It looks like it's been superceded by p/n 63-8300. Any good auto parts store or...

You can always let it run for a few minutes at high idle before you start splitting.

The following is a reply from ffbob. It got lost in the shuffle and ended up in the 'reported' file instead of the 'reply' function: ffbob said, "Mower shuts off now with key switch ( electrical connection) Any clues what to cheek for,motor shutting down while mowing ( starts right back up...

Powered by a peanut butter sandwich--No evil internal combustion engine OR coal-hog electric motor:

The downside is that offsetting the wheels puts more stress on the axle bearings. The upside is that at only 1" of offset, it won't increase stress much. The downside is, at only 2" of total offset, you probably won't be able to tell any difference between the two sets of wheels. Check that the...

Is the 722D2 a diesel? Does it restart OK? if so, then there must be a safety switch of some sort causing the problem. I would expect the seat switch for shutting off the engine when the mower is engaged, but I don't know what would cause it to shut off while idling.

Well, that's it for me. I don't know where to go from here. It'll take somebody smarter than me about computers but that won't take much. Good luck!

Here's another thing: If you click on 'Password and security' it brings up this screen. Is Two-Step verification disabled? I don't know what it does; all I know is that mine is disabled.

And if you click on "Connected accounts" do you see any accounts listed, such as these?

If you log off of Lawn World you'll certainly have to log back. It sounds to me as if your computer has maybe saved an old password and fails to login, or your computer is clearing out cookies every time you shut down? I don't know what else to suggest. edit: When you click on your user...

It seems unlikely to me that the problem lies with the site if I can stay logged on after closing the site and then open the site back up and still be logged on. How do you exit the Lawn World site? I either close its tab or close Firefox.

I use two; one is a notebook running Windows 10, Firefox 83.0 and Adblocker Plus. No problems. Sorry I can't be of more help.

I could be wrong, but I don't think it's the forum. No one else has said the same thing happens to them. What are you using? Phone? Desktop? Laptop? What operating system?

Thanks and the same to you and yours!

Or a '64 Triumph motorcycle.

I can't do anything about the above complaint but I can tell you that I'm running Windows 10 with AdBlocker Plus installed and I have had no such problem. FWIW, my ISP is a very slow connection, too, (2M up and 1M down) and it accepts type faster than I can type it.

I wouldn't pressure wash the deck. That has nothing to do with your problem and you might get water past the spindle seals.

How old is the fuel filter?

That points directly to what Star Tech said: "If the engine has a vacuum operated fuel (pump) it is also a possible path for (fuel) to enter the engine's crankcase."

Then your 2000 Grasshopper must've been very sick. If someone set the idle with it running on two cylinders, is it reasonable to assume that the idle speed would be correspondingly higher when the third cylinder became active? It should have been readjusted at that time. I don't know how much...

Did they say 'why' it can't be cleaned?

Are the model numbers the title of the photo?

Call the guy who installed your pump and/or injectors and tell him he's not finished. Why didn't he start it when he was there?

A fuel gauge on a lawnmower is an unnecessary luxury. Airplanes have fuel gauges. Nobody uses them. Clean and mount the tank. Fill it, make a note of how many gallons to fill it. Go mow for one hour. Refill the tank, make a note of how many gallons, to the tenth, it took to refill. That's...

Looks to me like it may be under the left fender but I don't know the year model. Look for your mower in the link below. If nothing else, you can find the starter and trace the heavy wire back to the battery. https://www.the-mower-shop-inc.com/mid_mount/432/midmounts-432.aspx

The WWII and Korean War vets didn't get much, either, but at least they weren't met with hostile crowds when they got home. The way the Vietnam Vets were treated is a national disgrace unlike any other. They are owed a national apology, especially the 58,000 who didn't come back..

I vote for #2.

Racerjoe, please let us know the outcome. Have you had the OEM blades off to sharpen or replace them? I've got an MZ 52 which I think has the same deck, and it uses blades that have that 'star' shaped center hole. I'm wondering if the left and center blades are not seated properly. That...

All of us miss our Dads. But I would not want him back if that meant having to lose him again, it's just too painful. Even though there are TONS of questions I'd like to ask him now.