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The intake valve is not closed deep enough into the valve seat due to being too long and crankcase pressure is allowing some oil from the engine to be sucked up the valve guide into the combustion area and the 4 cycle process allows some of the oil to be pushed into the intake cycle and thus gets into the carburetor intake area and then into the exhaust system as the engine completes the cycle.

Can also be caused by the mower turning over or when the engine oil level too high.

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