My brother in law started my LA135 lawn tractor yesterday after it was parked all weekend and it smoked like crazy. Smelled oily and seemed to clatter a lot, but I was backing my Kubota L185DT out about 30 feet away and couldn't hear too well over the diesel running.
I shouted for him to shut it off and I set to pulling the rocker covers. Everything seemed tight as I had just done the valve adjustment. I pulled the plugs and they both were wet with gas. I cranked the motor over with the plugs out and the left cylinder shot some left over smoke out the plug hole.
Things seemed to spin okay so i was buttoning it up when I noticed a brown stain (looked like cooked oil) on the surface of the left cylinder rocker box bottom, opposite surface from the combustion chamber.
This tractor has 350 hours on it and has started having difficulty starting since I did the valve adjustment. When I go to crank it, it will spin a little, get stuck against the compression in one of the cylinders, then if I continue to hold the key to start it will push through and then crank over until it starts.
Can anyone tell me what's going on ?
I shouted for him to shut it off and I set to pulling the rocker covers. Everything seemed tight as I had just done the valve adjustment. I pulled the plugs and they both were wet with gas. I cranked the motor over with the plugs out and the left cylinder shot some left over smoke out the plug hole.
Things seemed to spin okay so i was buttoning it up when I noticed a brown stain (looked like cooked oil) on the surface of the left cylinder rocker box bottom, opposite surface from the combustion chamber.
This tractor has 350 hours on it and has started having difficulty starting since I did the valve adjustment. When I go to crank it, it will spin a little, get stuck against the compression in one of the cylinders, then if I continue to hold the key to start it will push through and then crank over until it starts.
Can anyone tell me what's going on ?
