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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.

Local dealer says he has far less trouble and easier to work on with Country Clipper vs Exmark or Bad Boy. Problem is the Country Clipper is a lot more expensive. I bought one for the reliability and that it has an optional handrail for getting on/off that is unlike any other... after I fell off...

I seriously seriously seriously doubt you can "stretch" a tire. As others have pointed out when a tubeless tire comes off the rim it is due to lack of inflation, or the rim has rusted to nothing. I think you are losing air. Might bandaid with Slime. 9 years you say? Time for new tires.

Yup the hour meter on my Grandad's IH Super M is a toy to amuse my feeble mind. To think of the hours he spent in that seat... am amused for hours. There is a plethora of cheap junk Chinese hour meters available. Many won't sit in their packaging a year before the battery dies. But that is OK...

So when is the last time any of that happened? Say cellphone on car dash bursting into flames? Or Garmin GPS for that matter (you know all Garmin GPSs the past 20 years have lithium batteries?) and we put our GPSs on the car dash and leave them there when parked. On the other hand it is not too...

OMG! Gasoline never burns! No one has ever lost a garage, home, or business to a gasoline fire! Or not. Be sure to leave your cellphones outside on a non-flammable surface. And laptops. And everything.

Yes! Believe my EGo height was set to 3rd highest of 4. Maybe 1/2" higher than most mow. The CC is currently set to 3", but I don't take that measurement as gospel. Is just the label on the mower for the height I found by trial and error.

Mowed once or twice per week when it rains. Had weeds pretty much under control until I had the fool notion to hire TruGreen. They killed half my grass. Have/had several species of grass, but it was green and kept dirt covered. Still recovering. Know better than to mow white dandelion flowers...

Yes, pop the seals out, wash the bearing, grease, reinstall the seals. Do not spin the bearing with your air hose, but it is a good thing to use compressed air to clean it out.

Yes, pop the seals out, wash the bearing, grease, reinstall the seals. Do not spin the bearing with your air hose, but it is a good thing to use compressed air to clean it out.

Golly, I've mulched for 30 years and like the results. Rarely fertilize, and then it is with no good reason other than, "Maybe I ought to buy fertilizer this year?"

Usually "Sold by Amazon" is safe. "Fulfilled by Amazon" is not. Amazon is careful of their suppliers but if only "fulfilled" the item is procured by an "Amazon partner" and sent to Amazon warehouses.

Because the ZZ has shields not seals. Shields are open not sealed. I do not believe shields will be better for the O.P. because the problem with caged ball bearings is not "needs grease" so much as "grease got out something else got in."

1/3rd acre is all the more reason for a zero-turn. You don't have room to turn around and you are constantly turning around for lack of long runs to cut before turning. My back yard. Ring video link will only work for a month or two: https://ring.com/share/7f8c0829-6851-454e-bbc1-43189ae746bb...

I bought a Country Clipper Avenue 42” ZTR for much the same reasons the O.P. describes, 1/3rd acre, trouble walking long enough to mow just the front or back. Have borrowed lawn tractors in the past. Felt I spent half the time mowing just turning around. The Country Clipper is about the most...

Some sources report some manufacturers are deleting the inner seals now so the zero grade fitting might do some good. “Sealed bearings” are not very well sealed from the harsh conditions of a mower deck. I don’t think “more grease” is the solution when the problem is the current grease has been...

I can't believe you would stick with Husqvarna and ACE Hardware after getting stiffed the first time.

I had a B&S on a push mower like that. When warm the autochoke choked preventing the engine from starting. When hot it didn't choke and engine restarted. When cold (20-30 minutes) it choked and engine started. I greatly disliked that engine for this and other reasons. Actively shopped for a...

Why wouldn't Ariens know best the tire pressure to use in your mower? Do you think they are just saying that for best MPG? If you are on the heavy side then you might consider inflating tires to the upper range Ariens recommends. Or if you are lax in checking tire pressure. Remember tire...

Country Clipper.

"When it needs it." Lately not much rain, not much growth, but the grass still went to seed so I mowed.

If one hole is missing then what about the passages from that hole to the rod bearings' holes? I think one should be talking to Kawasaki about a new engine in exchange for deleting this thread.

I dug into the schematic of my Country Clipper and found the hour meter is driven by 12V from the ignition switch grounding through the low oil pressure switch on the engine. So the hour meter only runs when there is oil pressure.