Hi all,
I recently did an engine swap on my tilt a cut edger as the original engine took an early retirement. I took the starter off and found a fair bit of grass and sand inside the crankcase. The upper snorkel adaptor was always a bit dodgy and would come off frequently so I put it down to that. With the new (old) powertorque on deck I wanted to give everything a bit of a once over to check all was in order. I thought I would clean out the carb, change the snorkel adaptor and hose out the dirt from the snorkel. With the hose in the snorkel, I saw some dribbles of water in a strange place, and found the snorkel tube had rubbed through in a couple of places down low, to quite a good size, about 100mm upstream of the lower snorkel bend. It had obviously been there a while and been the previous engines cause of death. It might be worth checking all snorkels out for this problem. No idea how it happened or if it is a common fault. My spare few snorkels were all about 100mm short of course (off mowers). Any idea where to find the correct length convoluted tubing?
Cheers,
John
