Figgered out why my mower was throwing motor oil all over the place yesterday AM. It seems the crankcase breather became clogged. So when pressure developed in the crankcase, it lifted the dipstick about a half inch and motor oil was thrown everywhere.
After fixing the clogged breather, I mowed the rest of the day yesterday and today till about 2 PM. Then all my blades stopped turning. No evidence of losing hydraulic oil or other obvious breaks. Lynn, our legendary mechanic, finally figgered out the problem A gizmo that controls how fast the blades turn somehow came unscrewed from another gizmo. Lynn does not know how gizmo #1 controls blade speed or how it could come unscrewed from gizmo #2. Sort of like that delayed starting incident from a week or so ago. No one can explain that either. Since it was real close to quittin time, I said, "well, I've mowed a fair amount of grass and broke the mower again. My work here is done for today." I punched out and came home. That mower has been problems since the day after it was delivered. We have over 2 grand in repairs so far this summer.
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