Lawn Mower Running Rough???

Finally got around to diagnosing my push mower for the land that ran like crap at the end of summer.

Do you think this heat shield bolt is my problem???

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you lookin to mow the lawn next week Bman!!!!

Is that a little micro whammy on that bolt head?

Yeah I wouldn’t look beyond that bolt.

The wires look like they have lost the insulation and are bare in places.

But its the shield bolt that wrecked the wires. If it would have tasted better the mice would not have had to eat the wire insulation.

Glenn,

the way the weather is the next few days who knows!!!

Looks good from my house B mann, let er rip lol

I was up in Forest Lake today and saw a highway worker mowing grass. I had to do the double take, and yes he was mowing the fricken grass.

JEREMY wrote:

But its the shield bolt that wrecked the wires. If it would have tasted better the mice would not have had to eat the wire insulation.

I ran that thing for an hour like that (in September) not knowing there was the a perfectly dry mouse tinder ball sitting directly on the bare coil wire

It was running like crap (arcing/grounding out and had to have been sparking in the nest)

Somehow it didn’t burst into flames

Boys are lacking on their mouse trap line.

Critters around my house are huffers. They love to chew into small engine gas caps. So far they’ve been too high to discover wire extruded in peanut oil.

Ive never understood the mice. My dad always has corn in the shed for the feeders but the mice like eating the winch wires on my 4 wheeler.

We have x30 Plunkett’s boxes that we eventually bought off the guy that serviced us forever. They’re numbered, labeled with their intended location, and rebaited every other month. Knock on wood…haven’t had a mouse in our home nor had a wire on any piece of equipment chewed in years, and that’s covering a couple barns + 4 sheds, a shop, and 2 garages.

That reminds me I need to get my lawn mower working.

Damm Mice

Clearly that lawnmower was built by Ram.

So from now on rather than everyone saying to run seafoam in it or to use non-oxy premium or any other worthless advice…
We can just go with, check your plug wire.