It will be a few days before I can get to it but thought I would share this, I went to check on a oil leak and found when started it blew oil smoke out so shut down and checked, was leaking out from under cyl , added more oil and removed dip stick started agin and gas blew out of it , now it only ran 30 sec. so packed it up and brought it home . from what I can see in my books is that it eather blew and head gasket or the reed valve for crankcase releaf broke will post my finding when I tear into it but anyone seen this before please reaply oh its a 9 hp kawasaki mod. FC290V ED