I didn’t add any gas to the tank. My neighbor was more frustrated than relieved that I fixed it so quickly as he was trying many of the things you suggested including replacing the fuel line. There is a big hint in my previous post, if you want to take one more shot. Apologies if it is a goose chase.
I opened the gas cap to let it breath. I guess it wasn’t venting properly. If I could do it again I would open the cap and whisper some encouraging words into the fuel tank before letting it rip. Sorry for the goose chase; I hope you weren’t as frustrated as he was that I solved in seconds what had taken him quite some time and a trip to the store to fix. cheers! Thanks for playing. And sorry for bragging, I just had to give my self a pat on the back since I am not often ranked high on the common sense scale.
I’ll admit it was a guessing game, but so was it in real life. It ran for a second or two and then cut off. My first thought was choke, but then I just reached for the gas cap and off she went. you would have gotten it if you could have heard it.
I would have gotten it because I would have looked in the gas tank to see if there was gas. Then if it did not start, I would have primed it myself with some fuel in the throat of the carb and then if it did not start I would pull the float bowl to see if there was fuel in there or maybe water. So on and so on. For people who work on this stuff all the time and there are a lot of them on here this is basic flow chart stuff.
Right here, that’s me! 1999 lawnboy with the 6.5 horse duraforce on her. Was in my grandfathers shed when he passed and I had just bought my first house and needed a mower. After fixing the surging issue by opening up the main and pilot jets she runs really well. Sucks the gas and is loud as hell but has a lot of power and goes through tall wet grass easily. There’s just something about going out on a cool Saturday morning, firing that thing up and leaving a low hanging fog of 2 stroke in your wake. All the while the neighbors are looking on in awe. In all reality their “awe” is probably anger from the noise and smoke, either way she’s a bad azz old mower.
Well not really a guessing game in real life as we could see if it was getting fuel or spark and if it's got compression it's sucking air.
I didn't realize that they made two stroke lawn boys that recently. Thought they ended in the 80s or early 90s.
I wanna say they were made up till’ about 02/03 but not totally sure. Years back I read the whole history of lawnboy which was very interesting to me seeing how the Evinrude family had started it. I’m also into old outboards and boat’s in general and I never knew that. I once had a lawnboy form the late 60’s that I was going to fix up just for fun but never got around to it and gave it away.
Yea I didn't realize it was an OMC company still a few years back I watched something about OMC. I too like outboards and am a fan of OMC. I'm not a collector per say but have had a half dozen or so in my life and right now have 3 of them. All OMC johnnyrudes.
I didn't know that there were ties to Evinrude. Makes sense why my buddy's dad had a few lawn boys. He worked at Evinrude ( omc) before he took a job at Briggs and Stratton.
