I am seeing a big differance in responses posted here and those posted in the JD Lawn & Garden forums. So I thought I would try here for a John Deere mower problem as I know I am not the only person that owns some of each brand and I have seen some familiar names over there with posts.
My LX279 lawn tractor has a run problem. It runs after starting with full choke on and will continue to run with about 1/2 choke, but will die when the choke is released. I don't know if it is a carb/ fuel tank problem or possible a fuel pump problem. The fuel pump is only 2 years old, replaced it when I had a similar problem. I have been mowing with wet grass because of all the rain. It ran good then slowly starting to act like cold starts, I had to warm up longer before engageing the mower. Then it died a couple times like it was out of gas but still had 2 gal in tank, I have new gas cap. Now it won't run without choke 1/2 on. Tried different gas and there was no change. Blew air back from gas filter to tank and it wasn't plugged. Put new hose from & filter to carb. I am leaning toward dirt in carb, any opinions will help.:confused2:
My LX279 lawn tractor has a run problem. It runs after starting with full choke on and will continue to run with about 1/2 choke, but will die when the choke is released. I don't know if it is a carb/ fuel tank problem or possible a fuel pump problem. The fuel pump is only 2 years old, replaced it when I had a similar problem. I have been mowing with wet grass because of all the rain. It ran good then slowly starting to act like cold starts, I had to warm up longer before engageing the mower. Then it died a couple times like it was out of gas but still had 2 gal in tank, I have new gas cap. Now it won't run without choke 1/2 on. Tried different gas and there was no change. Blew air back from gas filter to tank and it wasn't plugged. Put new hose from & filter to carb. I am leaning toward dirt in carb, any opinions will help.:confused2: