Author Topic: Problems starting Mountfield rotovator (Read 4158 times)

Treud na Mara · « **on:** June 20, 2015, 01:00:33 pm »

Just that really, done everything as instructed in the book but just won't go ! Could the engine be flooded ? I know nothing about mechanical stuff !

Treud na Mara · « **Reply #1 on:** June 20, 2015, 01:16:21 pm »

After about a hundred 'pulls' it's going - don't know what made it 'right' but whatever it was my BH is delighted. I think 'flooding' or whatever might have been the trouble. How many 'pulls' before it should have a rest and for how long ? Long enough to post on TAS and Google for help methinks

doganjo · « **Reply #2 on:** June 20, 2015, 01:19:22 pm »

Don't know about rotovators but my Mountfield Ride on has safety features. If you breach just one of them it shuts down for 5 minutes. Check the book or as my son says when I ask him questions 'Mother, R T F M!!!'

JEP · « **Reply #3 on:** June 20, 2015, 08:04:30 pm »

when was the last time you used it
if put away with petrol still left in can cause a lot of trouble
run till it runs out before putting away

stufe35 · « **Reply #4 on:** June 20, 2015, 10:23:57 pm »

Replace the spark plug, cheap simple and often the fault.

Treud na Mara · « **Reply #5 on:** June 21, 2015, 01:34:01 pm »

Thanks JEP that sounds like it could have been at the root of the problem. Once BH got it started yesterday it was fine. Or perhaps it was the threat of the scrap heap that finally made it spring into life