We all run on used parts....

Castleford

Castleford

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This was a saying of a buddy of mine. I don't think he was talking about machines though...
Any way I was mowing my lawn this morning and the engine (v twin kohler courage) started surging/popping/dying.
Limped back to the garage and started looking, fuel came first figured it was starved and the fuel pump was new last year.
Could it have kakked so quickly? As I still had the old one I switched them .
Started and ran like a champ...the pump probably was original to the mower, 10 years old.
 
Castleford said:
This was a saying of a buddy of mine. I don't think he was talking about machines though...
Any way I was mowing my lawn this morning and the engine (v twin kohler courage) started surging/popping/dying.
Limped back to the garage and started looking, fuel came first figured it was starved and the fuel pump was new last year.
Could it have kakked so quickly? As I still had the old one I switched them .
Started and ran like a champ...the pump probably was original to the mower, 10 years old.
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I have to ask...why did you replace the original?
 
I thought it would be preventative maintenance, as I was installing a inline fuel filter and a shutoff valve
as part of the carburetor cleaning/adjustment and as the price of the pump was modest enough it seemed like cheap insurance.
 
That's good planning. Did you replace the pump with an OEM pump or a parts house or a Chinese replica?

Don't give up on preventative maintenance, even though this time it may have caused the very problem you were hoping to avoid.
 
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