Hit stump with my Craftsman Push Rear Bag Lawn Mower Item #07138901000 m#38901 and it shut-off right away and bent blade. I replaced the blade but doesn't sound as good. Doesn't seem to have the rpm's as it did but its ok, it doesn't have any vibration in the handle when running. Also it has a high pitch squeel to it, I think it always had that.

I wish engineers would actually work on(do repairs or maintaince) what they engineeer. How hard is it to measure the distance from the engine oil drain plug to the edge of the frame of the equipment the engine is being installed on? Or is it that they just can't read a ruler? Every single damn oil drain pipe is too short to make it past the edge of the frame. So, when you change the oil, it runs all over the frame and drips off everywhere. All they had to do is make the oil drain pipe 1/2" longer. What is that going to cost them? An extra 25 cents? You can't blame the engine manufactures as they don't know where the engine is going to be used. It is the equipment manufacturers. MTD, Ariens,Toro,AYP. Lawn tractors, snowblowers. 90% of them have oil drain pipes that are too short. 1 size does NOT fit all!! I have had to make a couple of oil drian extensions out of 1" PCV pipe. 1 ft long, cut it down the center and now you have 2 "troff" extensions. They work 95% of the time. Some, you don't have enough room to slide them under the pipe, so then you are screwed and have oil running all over the place. Everyone that is too short on my regular customer's equipment, I run down to the hardware store and buy a piece of pipe long enough to make it over the edge. Why couldn't the manufacterer just look and see if the pipe extends out over the edge in the first place?