Questions tagged [small-engine]
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If I use synthetic oil in my lawn tractor, can I go more than a year between oil changes?
I have a riding lawn tractor with a 460 cc Kohler engine. The manual says to change the oil every year. This year, I noticed the price of conventional and synthetic oil was about the same, so I wondered if I could buy synthetic oil and go perhaps…
Edward Brey
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Two-stroke engine not starting
I recently had trouble with the throttle on a two-stroke engine. It ran fine once I fixed that, but I didn't have time to till right then, so I turned the thing off.
It rained the other day, so I put a tarp over the tiller. It may have gotten a bit…
Translunar
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Trimmer not getting spark
Its a Stihl fs 45 trimmer and when I hook up a spark tester to it it shows I have spark but when I take the plug out and ground it to the engine i don’t see a spark. My guess is that the coil is weak and the spark won’t make it to the plug. The plug…
Joey Gentry
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