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Oil leaking from my briggs engine

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Posted by paul44965 KY (My Page) on
Thu, Jul 29, 10 at 12:25

I ran across a post from about a year ago about an oil leak from a briggs engine and it sounds a bit like the problem I have. I have a Craftsman 54" lawn tractor with a Briggs V-twin 24HP (Model #445677-0413-E1). While mowing through some heavy grass my mower lost power all of a sudden and began to smoke. I shut it down immediately and checked under the hood. There was a significant amount of oil leaking from somewhere above the oil drain plug. The leak seemed to stop when I shut down the engine and started again when I turned it over. Curiously there does not seem to be significant oil loss, as indicated by the dipstick. I have the Briggs repair manual for my engine. Does this sound like a problem with the crank case breather, a leaking o-ring on the dipstick tube, or a blown sump gasket? Or do I just have to start with the simplest repair and work my way down to pulling the motor entirely? Any help you can provide would be great.

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  • Posted by canguy British Columbia (My Page) on
    Thu, Jul 29, 10 at 21:57

You posted this on the tractor forum where it belongs. No need to double post.

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Thanx CG what is it with some People ! Can't they PLEASE KEEP IT SIMPLE ! We Try to Assist But the Duplication of Thread's is Ridiculous !

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