{"id":50544,"date":"2025-11-04T00:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T00:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=50544"},"modified":"2025-11-04T00:05:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T00:05:34","slug":"yard-work-lawnmower-engine-surging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/yard-work-lawnmower-engine-surging\/","title":{"rendered":"Yard work: lawnmower engine surging"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Self-tutoring about lawn mower maintenance: the tutor begins about a new problem.<\/h2>\n<p>\nI bought a lawn mower with a four-stroke Briggs and Stratton motor over ten years ago. It&#8217;s never complained, and started up by the third pull every time &#8211; usually on the first pull. This year, however, it&#8217;s periodically revving up and down. While it still cuts the lawn effectively, I realize I shouldn&#8217;t ignore the change.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt turns out this problem might be called &#8220;surging,&#8221; or &#8220;hunting.&#8221; It seems some possible causes of it are a dirty fuel filter or else a dirty carburetor. There can be other potential reasons, but I&#8217;ll try those two first. Except check the oil, I&#8217;ve done no maintenance on this mower since I bought it; it&#8217;s likely due for some attention.<\/p>\n<p>\nJust how I check, clean, etc., the fuel filter and\/or carburetor, I hope to cover in coming posts:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shrewsburysmallenginerepairs.co.uk\/why-is-my-engine-hunting\/\">shrewsburysmallenginerepairs.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about lawn mower maintenance: the tutor begins about a new problem. I bought a lawn mower with a four-stroke Briggs and Stratton motor over ten years ago. It&#8217;s never complained, and started up by the third pull every time &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/yard-work-lawnmower-engine-surging\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yard work: lawnmower engine surging<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1218],"tags":[3842],"class_list":["post-50544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yard-work","tag-carburetor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50546,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50544\/revisions\/50546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}