has anyone ever had a powerbase 35 lawnmower?

daniel-2412

hi has anyone ever had a powerbase 35 lawnmower? its a home-base own brand i think? my problem is that my lawnmower is spitting out black oil one side and a yellowish colour oil the other, when i bought my mower i got a bottle of oil with it and i think they said it might have been ready mixed? i remember them saying it was four stroke but i cant find the instructions and home base don't sell the mower anymore. also they don't do the oil anymore. my question is .... could this oil spitting be because i should have mixed the oil? if so can i add something to rectify this? or maybe i have the wrong sort? i got four stroke lawnmower oil. i tried phoning the number on the mower but they said they couldn't help me because they don't deal with technical information anymore and they don't deal with home-base customers anymore. please could someone help? thank you.

Ken68

2 Stroke motors need a mix. 4 Stroke oil goes into a different hole to the petrol.
Do you still have the instruction manual?

daniel-2412

i cant find it. i have a hole for oil and another for petrol. i am positive that it is four stroke. but i just cant find the instructions. it does look alot like a Lawn-King NG464 Petrol Lawnmower tho if it helps. apart from the name they look the same and the fact that it is a two stroke.

Dave_Spanner

Your mower is 4 stroke, I get them in from time to time for repair and have to tell the poor customers that you can't get parts for them. They are cheap imports. The yellow 'oil' sounds very much like petrol that has gone off. The black smoke is oil in the exhaust port, I imagine the mower has been tipped up on its side at some stage and oil and petrol have gone where they shouldn't go. The carb and fuel system basically needs to be stripped down, cleaned out and everything should be ok.