Kohler command 20 hp fouling plug low hours

[mcambrose]

I have a 2003 walker mower with 267 actual hours. It is already burning a lot of oil on the front cylinder. I pulled the plug today and it was covered with carbon. The back plug looks great. I just rebuilt one of my other Kohler engines with same problem, but it had almost 900 hours. The 900 hour engine had a small oil leak that covered the fins of front head and clogged them up with dirt. The heat made the oil ring fail. I looked and the front fins on the 267 hr motor were clean. Any other idea why the engine might have started burning oil so soon. I am assuming that the oil rings have failed. just like the other engine.

[Landrus2]

Some thing is defiantly wrong 900 hours is very little
But 360 is out of the question don’t you have a one year warranty

[lucforce]

BLOWN head gasket.

[Restrorob]

Sounds like the classic blown head gasket at the oil return port, A cylinder leak-down test will verify this.

[shopmanual]

Makes sense to me. It seems like a lot of the newer v-twins burn a decent amount of oil. My friend had a Briggs Intek that would go through tons of oil.

[sawman65]

blown head gasket kohler had problems with this.you cant hear it but its there there is a kit to fix this. and do them both the other is rite behind the first one. the kit has both the gaskets you need to fix it also.