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Well, Kawasaki and Honda engines, but running gear such as spindles, pulleys, and belt routing is much harder. Country Clipper has been an excellent brand but is having trouble recovering from COVID. Exmark uses a lot of Chinese parts and engines. Bad Boy is up and coming seeming to do...

Pick the rear end up. Transmission in gear or park, engine off. Turn one wheel. If other turns the opposite direction you have a traditional differential. Everything is functioning as it should. Yes, essentially one wheel drive, the easiest wheel to turn.

I would suggest EGo over Ryobi. Ryobi electrics appear to be rebranded Greenworks. EGo uses one battery mount for everything, string trimmers, chainsaws, push mowers, and zero turn riders. If unused for 30 days an EGo battery will magically self-discharge to 50% (on purpose) to protect itself...

Yes, the Snapper rear engine rider is a classic. The tube frame model, not the updated stamped steel chassis from Snapper's B&S ownership.

The square drive is very good for privacy fences and decks.

I can't read 6 pages of this thread. Small engine gas caps breathe. Necessary to let air in when gasoline is used by the engine. When temperature changes some air in the tank leaves when it warms, fresh air enters when it cools. Ethanol in the gasoline extracts moisture from the air in the...

There are no industry certification performance specifications for an oil to be sold as synthetic. Synthetic or refined, they are tested the same specifications and certifications. The rest is marketing. A superior motor oil can be made using synthetic processes but the use of synthetic...

Long ago I had one of the last Homelite 21" SP mowers with cast aluminum deck and about 4.5 HP B&S engine. 1988 I believe. Purchased from Monkey Wards just as the business was collapsing. The oil fill/check was a long tube and dipstick. With fresh oil and oil splashed up the tube (especially...

Bob Is The Oil Guy has a lot of truly smart oil professionals posting. Not old wives tales mechanics. There are ways to measure oil performance and the Kirkland @Scott_HRR poo-poos rates very highly. Mobil 1 mid pack.

You don’t get the same oil regardless of brand name. There are few manufacturers of base oil, but that alone does not meet SAE/API specs. There are also manufacturers of the additives necessary to make a complete SAE/API certification. Each brand decides what use. The SAE/API certification...

Voltage is almost irrelevant. Manufacturers use voltage to coax consumers into paying more. "Bigger numbers must be better! Right? After all the higher voltage tools cost more!" The higher voltage tools cost more because manufacturers decided to make more expensive tools, and use higher voltage...

Best mulcher I have used was my first, a Husqvarna SP that was purpose made for mulching. It had a donut deck, high and rounded. The single blade had a lip for lifting the grass at the tips and another inboard to blow the clippings down. Clippings up on the perimeter, down in the center, deck...

I have been tempted to use an automotive ceramic "wax" under the deck of mowers to keep grass from sticking. Don't know how long the coating would last under abrasive conditions. When I bought a plastic EGo mower I used a Turtle Wax plastic treatment I have used on my motorcycle. It held up...

Really depends on how far you have to go. If 100' on gravel then "try it". We do things sometimes because it is prudent.

10W-30 is thinner than 30 weight at room temperature but the same at 212°F, at which point it is even thinner. In ancient times we knew some engines simply burned one brand of 10W-40 and others not. And some engines were happy with that oil, but others not. It was simply a matter of trial and...

No one has found a "30W" oil yet. All you are finding is "SAE 30 HD" because 30W only exists in Google who returns links to "SAE 30" products.

Furthermore there is no performance specification for which a motor oil must meet to be sold as "synthetic". In other words, no assurance a synthetic motor oil is better than a refined oil. No requirement for a synthetic to be as good or better.

Just because vendors don't know what it is called and Google finds it doesn't make it so. The manufacturer knows and none of the products returned in the search say "30W" on the package. Is "SAE 30", often said to be "Straight Weight" to differentiate from 10W-30 and other multi-viscosity oils...

Mulching is good, but if you cut too short or wait too long with tall grass the mulching deck will clump. Clumping is bad wether mulching or not. I have mulched for decades with self-propelled push mowers. Recently stared using a Country Clipper zero-turn and decided to give the stock deck a...

Once Upon A Time so-called "diesel oils" were HDFOs, Heavy Duty Fleet Oils. To simplify things for fleet managers one oil suitable for diesel, gasoline, and many transmissions/gearboxes was formulated. Fleet managers watch costs closely, including time between overhauls. HDFO vendors had to...

I have never ever ever seen a "30W" oil. None of the links provided go to a "30W" oil, no matter Amazon's ignorant description writers often say so. Look at the product pictures "SAE 30" no W. Sometimes "30WT". There is "30 weight" oil, which is significantly different from a winter rated 30W...

When cut, grass releases a lot of moisture.

My Bad Boy dealer will not stock an EFI mower.

Is easy to mis-install many air filters leaving an opening for dirt.

Lead? Materials in a 2013 Kawasaki engine will be ethanol-safe. The problem with ethanol is that it carries water and it is the water which corrodes and gums things up. Vented, unsealed, small engine fuel systems will accumulate water. Water separates from ethanol-free fuel. Either stays in the...

12 oz bottle? Scored cylinder says "bad air filter" to me more than lack of oil. Especially when one is certain the engine had oil.

Country Clipper enables the hour meter via the ignition switch but grounds through the oil pressure sensor cutoff on the engine to accurately measure engine run hours. If low oil pressure sensor is not available the hour meter grounds directly and measure hours the ignition switch has been...

Had a 33 HP Yamaha engine? What happened?

That is not strictly true. The current draw to maintain a segment is very very low, but very very real. You are correct the current is higher to change a segment than to hold it. But they do need a battery and when it dies the display blanks. Nope. In a few years when the battery dies in those...

"Almost every..." Hydraulic lifters slide on camshaft same as "solid" lifters. Vs the use of a roller lifter which costs more than a solid bucket. A roller lifter is essential on high lift cam lobes. Essential for high spring rates due to the added force against the cam lobe. But many hot rod...

I think ZDDP is primarily a means for Lawn Mower Oil Salesmen to instill F.U.D. in consumers and "mechanics" to buy their product. ZDDP is something that eliminates automotive motor oils. Fear Uncertainty Doubt.

I didn't say that. I said, "high lift hot rod engines with solid lifters". Big difference. Almost every automobile on the road has solid lifters, even those with hydraulic lifters. But go to high lift and high spring rates for high RPM, the pressure on the camshaft is increased beyond what a...

That I have seen (not knowing your specific model) LCD hour meters are internally powered. The display stays on all the time even when all wires are disconnected. If you have only 2 wires then one is ground and the other is power. The meter counts when the power wire is hot. If you have an oil...

Is easy to drain the bottom of a tank of any size. Standard practice during preflight of gasoline powered aircraft.

ZDDP only protects when the oil film fails. High lift cam shafts in hot rods which do not use roller lifters need ZDDP oil changed every 1500 miles because the ZDDP is consumed in contact. So what I am saying is an engine which requires ZDDP oil is defective in design.

I totally disagree with your conclusion. Ethanol stays in gasoline until too much water pulls it out. Not the other way around. This is how we test for presence of ethanol: add water, shake it up, and if the “water” level rises then ethanol was drawn out of the gasoline.

Guess I need to go outside and tell my out of warranty F-150 that it is time for it’s wheels to fall off.

Some mower decks just do that. Especially when mulching.

Build 20 and list them on eBay. Of course having a deck custom built and galvanized will cost about an arm and a leg.

The problem with ethanol is how it carries water in suspension rather than letting the water sink to the bottom where it can be decanted. Ethanol carries water into the fuel system where it can do damage from suspension same as not. Corrosion. Varnish. Etc. Ethanol will not separate from...

I briefly owned a new but unimpressive Toro Recycler. I have happily used an EGo 21" SP since 2016. No other poster on this thread has used an electric. You are not going to shave your thick grass with any mower if the grass is very tall. The solution is to knock an inch or two off at a time...

My FR600V 18 hp Kawasaki consumes 1/2 gallon per hour at full throttle.

NGK = No Good in Kawasaki. Yes, I agree NGK makes good product. In 10 years with that mower I didn't experiment with other brands of sparkplugs, I should have. Honestly blame the ignition on the Kawasaki not the plug. Yet bought a zero-turn recently specifically with a Kawasaki engine.

So how much tear of the cords before the rubber holding air separates and lets the air out? I don't think it can be much. A tube will not keep a tire on the rim if it is "stretched" (if stretching is even possible) because the stretched tire no longer fits the rim. The O.P. needs new tires.

Mid 1990s I had a Kawasaki engine on a John Deere 21" SP that did the same sort of thing. A new NGK spark plug would last 2 years, not 3. Sparked outside the engine but would not run. IIRC it would more likely start cold than restart hot. Once running it stayed running.

I find a shoulder strap helps hold the trimmer and to maintain a semi-constant cut height. If you don't mind throwing money at the problem an EGo battery-electric mower with plastic deck weighs half or less than a metal deck gas mower. It will mow 45 - 75 minutes on one charge.

T6 recently lost it's API gasoline engine S rating. The old T6 was a fantastic "fleet oil", equally good for gasoline and diesel engines. The new is not. The S rating had to be sacrificed to protect expensive diesel emissions equipment such as the DEF and SCR. Guessing some of the chemistry for...

I haven't seen it on TV but I will agree detergent motor oils will keep an engine clean, probably not do much to clean a dirty engine. If you disagree then I suggest you consider how dark used motor oil comes out of a diesel engine. This is soot, pure and simple, being kept in suspension by the...

Uh, it is a riding mower and the blades stop but you can still drive it back to it's storage? If so then it is not the battery but either the motor driving the blades or that motor's speed control. Your batteries are fine because they are still powering the traction motors. This is something the...

That pulley doesn't look to be true.