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Gentlemen, recently gifted this machine, it has sat in my father-in-laws garage for years, comes with no hood or battery and I never actually seen it run. Today I checked oil, appeared very clean, put gas and a battery in it and it started right up, only ran few minutes, cut of and refused to start again. Below are the labels I have located and I hope someone can shine some knowledge on me about machine.

If it came to me the first thing I would do is pull the float bowl and see what the condition of the carb is. If it was sitting that long debris in the carb may have float around clogging the jets.

If cleaning the carb doesn’t do it, trace the fuel lines and filter back to the tank, all of which may have crud clogging fuel flow.

Ken

As a quick check, squirt some carb cleaner, or fuel, into the carb throat and try and start it. If it attempts to run, then follow the guys suggestions. Also, I would remove the spark plug to see if it's wet and check for spark. No spark, let us know.

Freddie21 said:

As a quick check, squirt some carb cleaner, or fuel, into the carb throat and try and start it. If it attempts to run, then follow the guys suggestions. Also, I would remove the spark plug to see if it's wet and check for spark. No spark, let us know.

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After a short blast of starter fluid with no response, I pulled the engine cover. Coil was clearly suffering from being wet somewhere in the past, very rusty and absolutely dead, once replaced it fired up quickly. Went ahead an replaced the fuel filter for good measure. Machine has no hood so maybe it has been rained on.
Otherwise, someone had placed the deck wheels at different heights, I corrected and try out the mover. It functions well and I was delighted to see how smooth it cuts.
thanks for the tips, Ray