Hi GTX,
Firstly I take responsibility for the fact of what was the end result.
I certainly take all your comments of what should happen via selling dealers as a positive.
The part that irks me is that the first engine I bought (first ever new engine purchased) was full of oil and the tag on the recoil starter shows an oil symbol and a big tick pictured. To me that means oil GOOD. Now on that engine I checked the oil and confirmed that it was full of oil. That engine is still running today and thus set the precedence of how I treated any subsequent purchases. Now when I bought the second engine for myself I pretty much "assumed" that it was in the same state as the first one purchased and that is it was full of oil. I did a rough check but obviously not good enough on my behalf and that's me making that statement about myself and that's where the responsibility falls back on me.
The word "assumption" is what's gotten me into strife.
I just feel that a sticker stating "Crankcase requires Oil prior to Starting" placed on the top opening of the carton would be a far more definitive bit of information rather than a book that's in 35 different languages talking about not using the engine on go-karts etc etc etc. would be far more informative.
The other thing that really irks me is that "I should've known better".
I will keep this thread up to date and post up the findings of this case.
BTW....... A Briggs agent / seller now has to strip the engine down and write a report on what's gone wrong and we all know how that's going to end. The engine doesn't have any contact whatsoever with anyone employed by Briggs Australia and it's the agency that has all the arguments with Briggs. This shouldn't be like this, but that's how their system works at the moment.
Cheers,
BB.
