I have a craftsman LT1000 with a briggs & stratton engine model 3117070125e1. It just strated smoking bad. I took apart the carb system and found oil in the housing for the breather assembly. What is the cause and can it be fixed
Thanks for the answers
you dont state whether your briggs is a vertical or horizontal stroke, but there are a couple of common causes of excessive smoking. First and most expensive is that the piston rings are worn or damaged allowing oil to enter the combustion chamber. to test for this I would advise a compression test. Secondly, overfilling the engine oil will cause a lot of white smoke particularly in horizontal engines. the other fairlycommon cause is tilting the engine at an excessive angle as this allows oil to run through the crank breather
graham
January 2011
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