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Pressure washer engine runs, smokes then stops.

We have a pressure washer that started running, after a few minutes started smoking and then stopped, we started it a few minutes later, it ran for 10 seconds then started smoking then stopped.

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Fish Fish what make and model is the pressure washer? What make and model is the engine? what have you checked?

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FF,

It just started running? All by itself? That’s creepy. My first guess is that you, and you are in vast good company with this, have too much oil in the crankcase.

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