Hi,
I've a petrol mower which has been getting slowly worse over the past few sessions. When it gets hot, say after 5 or 10 minutes of use it stops. Simply 'put-puts' out as if I turned the fuel off.
It will then flatly refuse to start again, if I can get it to catch it'll run for a matter of seconds before stopping (and seem to run very fast too).
The air filter is clean, the fuel looks clean and is topped up, the oil is mid-way up the dipstick and the spark plug is (after I went to buy a new one) brand new.
The mower is probably 15 years old and due for replacement anyway (the case is starting to fracture), and I have ordered a new machine because I'm so fed up with this one (and mower technology seems to have come on since this unit was invented, apparently they have self-drive now .. a completely alien concept to this machine). Having said all that .. any suggestions as to what could bring it back to life long enough to finish cutting my lawn - or even to use as a spare machine?
Thanks
I hate looses ends if avoidable so here is the answer:
The cut out cable had gone out of adjustment so it was marginal and a slight release on the handle made the engine cut out. Adjusted and now OK. Adjustment not an obvious thing. There is a plastic "joiner" in the middle of the cable - It screws in and out to adjust it.
PS Grass now 15 feet high !!!!