HELP. Push mower stopped working recently. Fixed a ton of things but still having issues.
Recently my push mower kept sputtering and would die. So I replaced the carberator because I bought a replacement years ago and was too lazy to clean. Replaced the hoses to it as well.
Replaced the spark plug and air filter too. Still no luck. Looked in the fuel tank and seen that the little straw style filter had some grass in it. Couldn't get the filter or hose off but I removed the tank, sprayed out all debris and let dry for a couple days.
Put it all back together today and it started up! Ran great for like 5 minutes, then the sputtering, then it slowed down a lot and finally died. I'm not super mechanically inclined, but have done most of what all youtube tutorials suggest.
So ive replaced air filter, new carb, cleaned fuel tank, used fresh premium fuel, checked oil and it still runs like crap. What else should I do? Probably going to try to force that fuel filter out and replace next, but it looks clean and fuel flows through it so idk.
1 extra note is after the mower died, there was a little bit of white smoke coming from the air filter near the carb.