No smoke out the exhaust but lots out of the breather pipe.
I've been reading up on pouring diesel and atf into the bores to soak and free up stuck piston rings, although I can't see why it wouldn't just run passed them into the sump if they're stuck into the pistons. Somewhere said use steam to soften carbon deposits, but I don't fancy putting water in the engine.
Is it starting and running OK or lacking in power to indicate it's low on compression? Someone hasn't done something daft and put the wrong dipstick in it or something like that so you're filling it with too much oil?
Starts and runs well. I had issues at the start of the cutting season but those were cured by cleaning the fuel tank and filters and bleeding the fuel system properly to get bubbles out of the filters.
The oil level was almost off the bottom of the dipstick and it was still blowing oil out the breather, plus no problems before this year, so I'm fairly confident the dipstick is the right one.
Suggest you measure the depth of the sump, drain your oil overnight,
fill with the right volume of oil for your size of sump.
Leave overnight to settle and check you dipstick shows the right thing.
Suggest you measure the depth of the sump, drain your oil overnight,
fill with the right volume of oil for your size of sump.
Leave overnight to settle and check you dipstick shows the right thing.
Then try running and see what happens.
Cheers MLOR. I actually discovered that as well last night when finding the engine type and checked mine. I have the short sump. It's not overfilled with oil. There was only about 1 litre in it when I drained it and refilled the other day.
Fairly sure it will be the same dipstick in both anyway. 20% more oil in the deeper sump and 20% more depth of sump will bring the oil level to the same height.
