MikeA57
Silver Member
Last Wednesday my wife offered to cut the back yard while I took our son to football practice. I told her that she would have to add gas to the mower before mowing and that when she finished she could just park the mower on a concrete pad I have behind our fence and I would clean it off the next evening and put it away. Never thought about the possibility of rain...
Thursday morning we awoke to VERY heavy rains occurring across Western TN. Depending on where you were around town, there was between 4-9 inches of rain in a 2 hour period. ( http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/9509...ity-tennessee/) We live in the area that got 9" of rain. Of course, my John Deere Z920A sat out in that deluge. I'm guessing that when she put the top on the gas tank she didn't get it on straight and it vibrated off sometime during mowing. I tried starting the mower before I even realized that the gas tank top was off, but the battery was dead too and it never even turned over, (which is a good thing I'm thinking). So now, I've got who knows how much water in my gas tank. Since it didn't even try to start I don't think any of the tainted fuel got sucked into the fuel pump.
I know the first thing is to pump the diluted gas out of the tank, charge the battery and refill with good gas and a healthy dose of Seafoam.
Is there anything else I need to do or check? What's my next move? This mower has the 26 hp air cooled Kawasaki on it.
What a mess...
Thanks,
Mike
Thursday morning we awoke to VERY heavy rains occurring across Western TN. Depending on where you were around town, there was between 4-9 inches of rain in a 2 hour period. ( http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/9509...ity-tennessee/) We live in the area that got 9" of rain. Of course, my John Deere Z920A sat out in that deluge. I'm guessing that when she put the top on the gas tank she didn't get it on straight and it vibrated off sometime during mowing. I tried starting the mower before I even realized that the gas tank top was off, but the battery was dead too and it never even turned over, (which is a good thing I'm thinking). So now, I've got who knows how much water in my gas tank. Since it didn't even try to start I don't think any of the tainted fuel got sucked into the fuel pump.
I know the first thing is to pump the diluted gas out of the tank, charge the battery and refill with good gas and a healthy dose of Seafoam.
Is there anything else I need to do or check? What's my next move? This mower has the 26 hp air cooled Kawasaki on it.
What a mess...
Thanks,
Mike