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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: PegLeg45 on July 18, 2011, 05:47:31 PM
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Waited a week to get in a new fuel pump for the mower....got it on, and now I got a dead cell in the battery.....time for a trip to town. >:( >:( >:( >:(
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Shouldn't it be ARRRRRRGGGGG! ? ??? Just saying.... ;D
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Mower: Noun. Synonym: neighbor's kid. Just saying. ;D
FQ13
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Mower: Noun. Synonym: neighbor's kid. Just saying. ;D
FQ13
Where we live, the closest neighbor pays someone else to mow their lawn. ;D
This was just bad timing, as most repair stuff is. The mower is 7 years old, but I keep it in top notch shape, but stuff wears out. I can't complain about the hoses and fuel pump being shot........and the battery was 4 years old and with as many months of mowing season as we have around here, that was a good life.
Anyway, it's running now and the wife is happy again...
(it's her mower and I can't get my hobble-legged ass on it anyway, so I use the larger Kubota tractor). :D :D :D
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Fuel pump on a mower??? We're not talking the average little lawn tractor here are we?
Here, about 6 Mexicans roll out of a custom F450 with a huge enclosed trailer, it's like a bee's nest for an hour... All done. :)
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21hp V-Twin mower. ;D
It was just a Mikuni pulse fuel pump that works off the OHV vacuum (like on a EZ-GO gas golf cart).
http://www.amazon.com/Genuine-Briggs-Stratton-808656-Fuel/dp/B002I1AI0Q/ref=sr_1_1?s=automotive&ie=UTF8&qid=1311043245&sr=1-1
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21hp V-Twin mower.
NICE! That'll throw the dog toys when they get run over! ;)
Those pumps are on LOTS a stuff. Outboard boat motors, go carts, mopeds, you name it. Not uncommon for the diaphragm to fail in them either. Often when they do the gas from the tank will drain down into the motor and hydraulically lock it. Makes it VERY hard or even impossible to turn over. Coulda been what killed the battery when the starter motor couldn't turn. Nothing you could have done to prevent it though. :(
Check the oil in the motor. If gas did drain down into the cylinder it could have been forced past the rings and into the crank case. If it were me, I'd just change it to be safe.
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Anyway, it's running now and the wife is happy again...
When Miss Amy ain't happy, nobody's happy!! ;D
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When Miss Amy ain't happy, nobody's happy!! ;D
Brother you hit the nail on the head with a big hammer. ;D
Badger, thankfully the fuel pump is mounted in such a way that if it fails, the gas will drain back into the tank (except for what is in the 8 or so inches between the pump and carb, and it got burned out of the system when the wife tried to crank it. The starter would spin fine. The motor actually started for a second or two and then just died after the remaining fuel was used.........And, in typical female fashion, she sat there spinning the motor over until she realized it might not be getting gas. By then it was too late for the battery. The initial problem was a dry-rotted fuel line and the pump lost vacuum. While removing the hose, the plastic pump housing had evidently become brittle with heat/age and the housing cracked at one of the hose nipples.
You are correct about the battery. It got killed when the pump lost its prime and the wife ran it down trying to crank it.......but it was on its way down hill anyway because we had to jump it off several times in the recent past. After I got it running, it ran for 30 minutes and wouldn't charge enough to crank back up.......so, $42 worth of battery later...........