Time To Buy a New Riding Mower?

[TNTreeHugger]

I just looked up the shop in my town... And boy is this odd, I swear, just a month ago, it was a Stihl retailer. Now they are Huskvarna. There was some scuttlebutt about a recent lawsuit this particular store lost about this exact sort of thing. I can't find anything to confirm or deny this tho.

The place here used to sell Husqvarna's (where I bought mine) Now they don't. Now they're a Stihl dealer.

 

[TNTreeHugger]

Read thru the thread and have a question. From the looks of the website they deal in mostly 2 cycle stuff, Now what would be the possibilty that they put some mixed gas in the tank. Would smoke like heck. before i did anything, I would simply check the gas and see if it is plain gas or mixed. If In doubt, run the mower until tank is dry and refill with gas. The oil mixed in the gas wouldnt hurt anything, except the mo-skee-toes. If it is/was mixed gas, the smokeing would clear up once the mixed gas is gone.

I'll give it a shot. They dropped it off today while I was at work, so I'll try to crank it up tomorrow.
Thought the oil smelled a bit like gas... what if some nitwit put gas in the oil?

 

[neely]

Good afternoon, neely. Sorry I missed you this morning.

Good afternoon, that quite alright,

 

[Jackbnimble]

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Never did drugs. Never touched 'em.

 

[TNTreeHugger]

Never did drugs.

Who - you or the Tull guy?

 

[Jackbnimble]

Who - you or the Tull guy?

Who me? Nah. Him

 

[Jackbnimble]

I'll give it a shot. They dropped it off today while I was at work, so I'll try to crank it up tomorrow.
Thought the oil smelled a bit like gas... what if some nitwit put gas in the oil?

Good luck. I am convinced that you are going to come out ahead in this mess. Clear skies with the wind at your back.

OU is 2 much for them Buckeyes. OU's got a national champ in the making.

"what if some nitwit put gas in the oil?" Well, it looked like oil.

 

[TNTreeHugger]

Here are photos of my broken little mower.


(No socks )

 

[TNTreeHugger]

I can tell you one thing... if I charged someone $120 for a repair I would have done some cleaning-up before returning it to them, wouldn't you?

 

[Jackbnimble]

What's her status?

 

[neely]

Here are photos of my broken little mower.
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(No socks )

Pretty dirty,

 

[neely]

I can tell you one thing... if I charged someone $120 for a repair I would have done some cleaning-up before returning it to them, wouldn't you?

Yes I always do ,before I return them , not detailed but cleaned up ,

 

[neely]

Here are photos of my broken little mower.
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(No socks )

No pedicure?

 

[TNTreeHugger]

No pedicure?

No. If you hadn't noticed, I'm a DIY kind of person.
Besides, those places STINK! My mother used to have pedicures and I had to wait outside. Surprised OSHA allows them to stay open.

 

[TNTreeHugger]

It sounds terrible to me - and didn't sound like this when I sent it out for the alleged "voltage regulator" fix. Not a smooth motor sound, but more of a clacking sound. Similar to repeated mini backfires, if that makes sense.

 

[TNTreeHugger]

The longer it ran, the worse the smoke got - ran out of camera battery.

 

[neely]

No. If you hadn't noticed, I'm a DIY kind of person.
Besides, those places STINK! My mother used to have pedicures and I had to wait outside. Surprised OSHA allows them to stay open.

Settle down young lady ;I was just picking at you , I'm not into feet anyway ,

 

[neely]

It sounds terrible to me - and didn't sound like this when I sent it out for the alleged "voltage regulator" fix. Not a smooth motor sound, but more of a clacking sound. Similar to repeated mini backfires, if that makes sense.

Did they change the oil?

 

[stihl sawing]

Sexy toes.

 

[TNTreeHugger]

Did they change the oil?

Nope.