bruce werner
Member
This is bad. Last spring I started my 8-N, and it ran poorly. Some exam finally showed me a mouse and her nest and some youngins were all smashed down into the oil cup, drowned in oil and plugging off the air flow. I cleaned everything out, put a new wire mesh filter unit back into the filter case, new oil, and zingo, she did good all summer. Today I discover a new mouse drowned in the oil, minus the nest. But there was a ton of garbage all mired up in that steel mesh filter, had to throw it away and order a new one here. There looks to be just enough space between the inside of the hood and the air intake hole for a critter to move in. Anyone here have this problem before? What did you do to fix this problem?