Been messing with this for several days and running out of ideas so any help more than welcome.
Have mowed a few times this year already with no problems using leftover gas with stabilizer. The other day mowed for about 20 minutes and then suddenly mower stutters and shuts off with no warning. Usually when I run out of gas I get a few stutters & gasps and then 10 feet later it finally stops. This time it was stutter/done. Turns over just fine but won't fire. So I drag it to the garage and check fuel to carb after adding fresh gas and see it's getting fuel. Pull sparkplug and turn over and see it sparking just fine. I splashed some fuel in carb and nothing. I even see fuel spitting out the exhaust so I think it's getting plenty of fuel.
So it turns over, gets fuel, is sparking but other wise nothing. Doesn't even try to fire. I know if the safety switches fail it wouldn't turn over. Talked to local repair shop they didn't have any ideas and of course this time of year looking at a couple of weeks before they could look at it. I even tried starting without the gas cap to make sure the air intake valve wasn't clogged (getting desperate).
I'm starting to think it's something major but as I turn it over nothing sounds unusual in the engine like a busted piston. Just no fire.
Starting to shop for a new mower but just wanted to post here to see if there might be something simple I'm missing.
Thanks!
Dennis
Have mowed a few times this year already with no problems using leftover gas with stabilizer. The other day mowed for about 20 minutes and then suddenly mower stutters and shuts off with no warning. Usually when I run out of gas I get a few stutters & gasps and then 10 feet later it finally stops. This time it was stutter/done. Turns over just fine but won't fire. So I drag it to the garage and check fuel to carb after adding fresh gas and see it's getting fuel. Pull sparkplug and turn over and see it sparking just fine. I splashed some fuel in carb and nothing. I even see fuel spitting out the exhaust so I think it's getting plenty of fuel.
So it turns over, gets fuel, is sparking but other wise nothing. Doesn't even try to fire. I know if the safety switches fail it wouldn't turn over. Talked to local repair shop they didn't have any ideas and of course this time of year looking at a couple of weeks before they could look at it. I even tried starting without the gas cap to make sure the air intake valve wasn't clogged (getting desperate).
I'm starting to think it's something major but as I turn it over nothing sounds unusual in the engine like a busted piston. Just no fire.
Starting to shop for a new mower but just wanted to post here to see if there might be something simple I'm missing.
Thanks!
Dennis