I have a Lawn Boy Gold Pro Series with a 6.5 HP 2-cycle Duraforce engine. It has an aluminum deck and was an expensive mower but the engine has not been reliable. I have had it for about 7-8 years and mow less than a 1/2 acre around my house with it. Each summer I have to take it in for servicing. They claim it suffers from dirty gas. However they installed a filter on it and it still suffers from the same problem. It will run and then the engine rpm starts to oscillate and then drop off. Sometime I can keep it running by placing a little choke. I use high test gasoline with no ethanol and a 32-1 gas to oil mix with Lawn-boy oil. Now it won't start at all.
Are these 2-cycle Lawn-Boy mower engines particularly prone to carburator problems? I am getting tired of working on this mower each season.
Are these 2-cycle Lawn-Boy mower engines particularly prone to carburator problems? I am getting tired of working on this mower each season.