I have a older Craftsman 21 inch, front wheel drive lawn mower. It has a Tecumseh 6.75 horsepower engine >When I stored it away last fall, I put stabul in the gas, removed the sparkplug and put some 30 grade oil in the sparkplug hole , cranked it over a few times , put the sparkplug
back in. and stored it.
I took it out today, and pulled the starter cord and it turned about one turn, then I could not pull it any more. I guess it had reached the compression stroke.
I took out the sparkplug which was covered by oil. I pulled the cord and it turned over easily . I put the sparkplug back in and it was the same as before, it would just turn over
until it got to the compression stroke.. Do you think that the oil I put in it ,(maybe I put in too much) is causing a hydraulic lock. Also, should I put some gas in the sparkplug hole
to dillute the oil.?
This message was modified Apr 10, 2011 by royster
