Hi everyone, new to the world of bolens here and must say I'm loving it. The attachments available for these things are awesome! Anyway I bought a bolens 1256 on Facebook market place last week, came with a sickle bar, snow caster and mower deck. When I went to check it out the guy selling it started the tractor no problem and let me take it for a spin. Everything seemed fine sounded good and responded well to power up and down. Ran the pto and no problems. So I took it home and got to work with the sickle. After the second day at home I noticed little puffs of black smoke on the higher end. Figured the carb needed to be cleaned. Anyway I continued on and it seem to get worse and at this point the motor was sputtering. So I brought the throttle back down to idle and it seemed to stop sputtering and ran fine. So today I took of the carb and cleaned it, put it all back together and seems to be doing the same thing, getting slightly worse. I have tried basic carb turning per the zenith manual posted on one of these forums with not luck.
Anyone have any ideas? Thinking it is a fuel/air issue but not really sure. Anyone have any experience with these 1256's?
Thanks!
Anyone have any ideas? Thinking it is a fuel/air issue but not really sure. Anyone have any experience with these 1256's?
Thanks!