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The background is that I have a Countrax ride on mower and lost the key. Improvised with a screw driver in desperation and finally got round to buying a new key holder. The new key holder was differently wired. To cut a long story short I managed to put the wrong wire on the wrong terminal with the result that I got smoke coming out of the top of the engine where the starter motor goes round. See photo. The smoke lasted for about at most 10 seconds probably less when the batter was quickly disconnected. Tried to start it again (more in hope than expectation) and not surprisingly it is dead as a dodo. Now I am an old motorcycle guy and am not familiar with a more modern engine that probably has PCBs and my suspicion is that I have blown something serious... but what? is it the insulation on a copper coil of some sort? (I think not) so what caused the smoke to stop the engine firing ? Where will I find a "Haines" type manual to work out how to take the cowling etc off and get to the working parts of the engine? Yrs aye. Chris George
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My Greenmech CS100 is 6 yo and been very reliable until Saturday when it was chucking out lots of white smoke. While searching for some help I found a previous article in these forums which helped me down the road of fault finding. And as usual it’s probably operator error by me! Seems there’s a common problem with engines having a fuel tank above the carb where if you don’t shut off the fuel valve when moving the machine, it can make its way into the oil. The route is via the carb which when the machine is moved, bounces allowing fuel through the inlet manifold to the cylinders and down past the rings into the sump, mixing with the oil. That presumably gives an overfilled oil situation and the smoke. The fact I’d filled the fuel tank just before would have added to the downward pressure. So my bad for not using the shut off valve. If anyone had more info on this or a view on whether is likely I’d be grateful. in the meantime, new oil and filter to come and I’ll try again. 👍Colin -
I have a Briggs and Stratton quantum engine that hunts at full throttle I have cleaned the carb and adjusted everything however the problem still occurs Also there is a squealing noise from the driveshaft gearbox Thanks
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I have a B&S Quantum from 1994 and it starts and runs fine however it seems to hunt slightly at full throttle i have cleaned the carb and replaced seals etc and have also tuned it properly but it still hunts a bit. Also it has a drive shaft coming out the side for a self propelled lawnmower and every time the self propelled mechanism is engaged it makes a loud ish squealing noise. It is definitely coming from the engine and not the self propelled mechanism however its only when load is applied. i would appreciate help thanks:001_smile:
