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Re: Why won't my mower start?
« Reply #45 on: 21 December 2020, 17:28:09 »

I have cleaned all the jets ( in fact any orifice I can find) with a needle. It is now sitting in fresh petrol. I shall give it an hour or so before putting it back together. It looked pretty clean but I'm hoping it will behave when I come to start it.
It will start tonight, in the dark, and then refuse again when you go to use it.  :)
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Re: Why won't my mower start?
« Reply #46 on: 21 December 2020, 17:31:02 »

Occasionally I think about getting a petrol mower, but then a thread like this pops up....  ;D
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Re: Why won't my mower start?
« Reply #47 on: 21 December 2020, 17:37:19 »

Drop a little squirt of petrol in the cylinder before you put plug back in (not too much tho) then try that. If it fires it must be the carb that is at fault.  :y
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Re: Why won't my mower start?
« Reply #48 on: 21 December 2020, 17:39:06 »

If two, 50 metre leads are not long enough to get to the far reaches of his garden, you'd think he'd pay a gardener. Probably frightened of Mrs Opti clapping eyes on a semi naked, sweaty young male cavorting outside her bedroom window.
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Re: Why won't my mower start?
« Reply #49 on: 21 December 2020, 18:20:34 »

Occasionally I think about getting a petrol mower, but then a thread like this pops up....  ;D
That's why you need a collection of petrol mowers, not just one. :y

I'm still using a 1995 Murray Ohio that my little brother chucked in a skip because it wouldn't start. ::)

Some fresh petrol and a service and it starts on the first pull every time.
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Re: Why won't my mower start?
« Reply #50 on: 21 December 2020, 18:47:04 »

I'm getting a perverse pleasure from stinking of petrol. ;D
When you were a nipper, and dad was filling up with 4 star, did you used to unwind the window so you could smell it?


Obviously, I never did that. Not me. Nah. Well, not often.

Yeah....loved it. 5 star though. :)
When I was young, Mum had a little Italian sporty number that would only run on 5 star, which only 1 station in the area sold, from a special pump round the back.

Obviously I never unwound the window. Much ;D
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Re: Why won't my mower start?
« Reply #51 on: 21 December 2020, 19:04:29 »

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That's why you need a collection of petrol mowers, not just one. :y

I'm still using a 1995 Murray Ohio that my little brother chucked in a skip because it wouldn't start. ::)

Some fresh petrol and a service and it starts on the first pull every time.

Is that a ride-on Kevin (Guessing maybe not if he threw it in a skip ;D ). I got the school Murray ride-on going back in the summer. The grounds keeper asked my Mrs if I'd have a look at it as she works at the school. This one had a Briggs and Stratton engine in but was labelled on the body as Murray.  :'(  It's their spare ride-on, with the Grillo being the main one. Mice had chewed the ignition wire on the Murray.  ;D
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Re: Why won't my mower start?
« Reply #52 on: 21 December 2020, 19:27:42 »

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That's why you need a collection of petrol mowers, not just one. :y

I'm still using a 1995 Murray Ohio that my little brother chucked in a skip because it wouldn't start. ::)

Some fresh petrol and a service and it starts on the first pull every time.

Is that a ride-on Kevin (Guessing maybe not if he threw it in a skip ;D ). I got the school Murray ride-on going back in the summer. The grounds keeper asked my Mrs if I'd have a look at it as she works at the school. This one had a Briggs and Stratton engine in but was labelled on the body as Murray.  :'(  It's their spare ride-on, with the Grillo being the main one. Mice had chewed the ignition wire on the Murray.  ;D

No, this one's just a rotary push-along job.
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Re: Why won't my mower start?
« Reply #53 on: 21 December 2020, 19:32:32 »

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That's why you need a collection of petrol mowers, not just one. :y

I'm still using a 1995 Murray Ohio that my little brother chucked in a skip because it wouldn't start. ::)

Some fresh petrol and a service and it starts on the first pull every time.

Is that a ride-on Kevin (Guessing maybe not if he threw it in a skip ;D ). I got the school Murray ride-on going back in the summer. The grounds keeper asked my Mrs if I'd have a look at it as she works at the school. This one had a Briggs and Stratton engine in but was labelled on the body as Murray.  :'(  It's their spare ride-on, with the Grillo being the main one. Mice had chewed the ignition wire on the Murray.  ;D

No, this one's just a rotary push-along job.

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Re: Why won't my mower start?
« Reply #54 on: 21 December 2020, 22:13:28 »

I'm getting a perverse pleasure from stinking of petrol. ;D
When you were a nipper, and dad was filling up with 4 star, did you used to unwind the window so you could smell it?


Obviously, I never did that. Not me. Nah. Well, not often.
Love the smell of Castrol R. :y
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Re: Why won't my mower start?
« Reply #55 on: 22 December 2020, 07:56:18 »

Cleveland Discol and Castrol R, used to run my Ariel scrambler. Exotic smells.  :y
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Re: Why won't my mower start?
« Reply #56 on: 22 December 2020, 08:02:33 »

Had a similar problem with mine a couple of years ago, took it in to our local mower service centre collected it a couple of days later after a service, the fellow in there told me that the problem was the diaphragm which was disintegrating, haven't got a clue what that is but the mower has not missed a beat since.
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Re: Why won't my mower start?
« Reply #57 on: 22 December 2020, 15:22:25 »

Ok.....this is really stating to get om my tits now.

Carb back on.

Plug now soaking wet with petrol but not even a hint that it is trying to fire. Three new plugs. All sparking but will not ignite the petrol. 
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Re: Why won't my mower start?
« Reply #58 on: 22 December 2020, 15:28:16 »

Ok.....this is really stating to get om my tits now.

Carb back on.

Plug now soaking wet with petrol but not even a hint that it is trying to fire. Three new plugs. All sparking but will not ignite the petrol. 
Get your Philipino house boy to cut it with some nail scissors. :)
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Re: Why won't my mower start?
« Reply #59 on: 22 December 2020, 15:39:53 »

He could then catch the offending rats and have them for Christmas dinner.  :y ;D
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