RobGMiller
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For my home residence use, I have a Wright 52” StanderB with a Kawasaki FS651V engine.
My lawn is about 1.5 acres and 90% of my lawn is a 15° slope.After 43 ¼ hours of use since purchase, the mower was stalling about ¾ into the mow only as I approached the top of my hill. I could right the engine if I let up on the gas, but it continued stalling at the top of every pass for the remaining ¼ of the mow - slowing things down significantly. This issue continued for the next 5 mows (additional 5½ hours), and one that 5th mow was the first time the stalling pushed it to quit - the engine stopped, and when I tried cranking it up again flames burst out of the exhaust! (That’s also when I noticed that all of the paint on the exhaust had burnt off since it was new.) Each of these mows I would check the spark plug, oil, fuel level, air filter - each were fine. I recently switched to non-ethanol fuel and that got me one more hour, a complete mow of the yard, and then the next mow the problem came back, but sooner into the mow than before - and since then I can’t get it to run more than 5 minutes (on numerous attempts).
My lawn is about 1.5 acres and 90% of my lawn is a 15° slope.After 43 ¼ hours of use since purchase, the mower was stalling about ¾ into the mow only as I approached the top of my hill. I could right the engine if I let up on the gas, but it continued stalling at the top of every pass for the remaining ¼ of the mow - slowing things down significantly. This issue continued for the next 5 mows (additional 5½ hours), and one that 5th mow was the first time the stalling pushed it to quit - the engine stopped, and when I tried cranking it up again flames burst out of the exhaust! (That’s also when I noticed that all of the paint on the exhaust had burnt off since it was new.) Each of these mows I would check the spark plug, oil, fuel level, air filter - each were fine. I recently switched to non-ethanol fuel and that got me one more hour, a complete mow of the yard, and then the next mow the problem came back, but sooner into the mow than before - and since then I can’t get it to run more than 5 minutes (on numerous attempts).
