I just bought a SR1433 snapper rear engine mower a few days ago. So far, I noticed the gas line was looking old and dry rotted, so I replaced the line, filter and line going to the carburetor. Also, when I bought the mower, I noticed the engine surging after it finally started, so a friend of mine recommended sea foam to clean out the buildup and water in the carburetor/fuel system since the guy hadn't been using it for 2 months, although the gas I dumped out of the tank looked more like a year+ old. After only running it for about 30 minutes testing the mower out more fully then I could during the test drive, the engine smoothed out and seems to be running perfect now. I highly recommend Sea Foam now that I have tried it and it did live up to the hype. The choke is not fully engaging and I think that is why I was having a hard time starting it at first. It was flooding it with gas without enough at first to just fire it up. I have found out that if I set it to about half throttle and then just reach behind me and manually choke it all the way and release it as soon as it starts I can get it to start in just a few seconds. The guy I bought it from never thought of that I guess and as actually spraying carburetor cleaner down into the air cleaner to help if start up when cold. He drilled a small hole in the top of the plastic cover to make it easier to do. I have since covered his little hole with duct tape to keep it from sucking dust directly into the carburetor.
The blade looked quite old and rusty so I decided to order a new one. I got one of the new gator mulching blades in today (33" blade is pretty big). I was going to go with an oem snapper blade, but I found a gator for the same price through mowtown (sold through amazon) and I read some rave reviews about these blades. Anything special I should know about putting this blade on? I read through the snapper manual and it sound pretty straight forward. Hopefully I won't have to adjust the blade leveling adjustment but we'll see when i put it on.
I was thinking about checking and maybe changing the differential grease 00 but I have a question. The place where it shows you in the owners manual to check the level, is that just a plug I pop out with a flat head screwdriver? How do I drain it to put in new 00 grease? Can you guys recommend a different lubricant other than 00? Like a synthetic Mobil 1 equivalent or is there no substitute to snapper "00" grease? I have another thread that I started asking about the sound I hear when I push the mower around with the engine off. Could the metal rubbing sound I hear be from low 00 grease or is it just the clutch rubbing or something?
I have been wanting a snapper for a long time and I finally have one.
Thanks a lot,
Swami
The blade looked quite old and rusty so I decided to order a new one. I got one of the new gator mulching blades in today (33" blade is pretty big). I was going to go with an oem snapper blade, but I found a gator for the same price through mowtown (sold through amazon) and I read some rave reviews about these blades. Anything special I should know about putting this blade on? I read through the snapper manual and it sound pretty straight forward. Hopefully I won't have to adjust the blade leveling adjustment but we'll see when i put it on.
I was thinking about checking and maybe changing the differential grease 00 but I have a question. The place where it shows you in the owners manual to check the level, is that just a plug I pop out with a flat head screwdriver? How do I drain it to put in new 00 grease? Can you guys recommend a different lubricant other than 00? Like a synthetic Mobil 1 equivalent or is there no substitute to snapper "00" grease? I have another thread that I started asking about the sound I hear when I push the mower around with the engine off. Could the metal rubbing sound I hear be from low 00 grease or is it just the clutch rubbing or something?
I have been wanting a snapper for a long time and I finally have one.
Thanks a lot,
Swami