Garden Tractor fuel gauge - Page 4

 

On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:30:09 -0700, Hustlin' Hank wrote:

... unless your yard takes more than a tank (mine uses a tank and a half,
so I have to fill up even if I start off full).

 

On Mar 15, 8:27�am, Jules Richardson

Sounds like you need a bigger tank, mower, or smaller yard.

Hank <~~~mows for 3 hours on 1/3 tank (15 gal tank).

 

On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:38:03 -0700, Hustlin' Hank wrote:


Yeah... we've got a little over 2 acres of grass, normally takes me
somewhere between 2 and 2.5 hours to cut  (blades are somewhere around
40" - I'd have to dig the mower out to check for sure though). I don't
think the tank's much over 2 gallons, though - so it takes about 3 to cut
that much (usually every 2 weeks during growing season)

I keep wondering about getting a "full sized" tractor with a mowing deck
(it'd be useful for other stuff too), but I'm not sure what the running
costs would be like - although it'd save time, I don't know if it'd
necessarily save on gas.

cheers

Jules

 

On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:40:28 -0700, Midnite wrote:


Well, the float will sit more or less on the surface; in my lawn tractor
the tank's maybe 10" deep, so even if the float sits 1/2" lower with
sealer, that's "only" a 5% error (I say only because the thing bounces
around so much in use that it's pretty much impossible to take an
accurate reading anyway).

It's possible to get car body filler that's rated for gas contact, so
that might be worth a try if the float is holed in a single place (but if
it is, a soldering iron would probably work to melt the plastic and seal
the hole anyway).

If the plastic's deteriorated and is letting gas through all over, I
think I'd be looking at cutting the old float apart and somehow attaching
a new one to it...

cheers

Jules