On Mon, 09 Apr 2012 03:28:10 -0400, Ima Goodguy wrote:

On Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:10:53 -0400, Ralph Mowery wrote:


"Ima Goodguy" wrote in message
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I started my Troy-bilt (super bronco) the other day. I almost
immediately started running rough and smoking profusely. I shut it
down and remembered the last time this happened.
Sure enough I checked the oil dip stick and the fluid level was a
couple inches above the full mark. And it smelled like gasoline. I put
a pan under the drain plug, opened the drain plug and the fluid
contents poured out like water and smelled like gas.

As mentioned, this had already happened once before.
My question is: How can gasoline be getting mixed into my oil pan ?
This same situation once happened to my girlfriends mower.

I have never mistakingly poured gas into the oil filler, and
I suspect that someone is out to get me - unless someone can explain a
good reason how else this could happen.


I don't know about this particular motor, but if the float in the
carburetor hangs up, the gas runs into the piston and down the gap in
the rings to the oil pan.

Wow... Thanks Ralph. I hadn't thought about that. I did ponder
" carburetor " for a moment, but not the float valve. In my paranoia
I immediately suspected foul play. I changed out the oil and did my mow
job, parked the mower. Then ran a length of black thread across the
garage opening ( no doors ) and check it periodically to see if anyone
had 'tripped' it. My next move was to be a trip to Harbor Freight and buy
a motion detect alert gizmo ($16.95). Then I'd fill my S&W 357 with 38 Sp
shot shells and wait for my queue...

Would it help to burn some kind of carburetor cleaner stuff ?

It's a 2006 Super Bronco w/B&S 19 hp if'n that makes any dif.


Mistake. The engine is a KOHLER 19hp... I believe it is Model SV530S.

Thanks again ... ( them shot shells are $15 a box of ten ... too
much to waste ..)

Ima ... ( actually Paul .. ).