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The only other way to lose oil is if the engine is burning it.

i put a piece of a brown paper bag between the coil and the flywheel magnet

This may or may not have anything to do with it however I have the same engine on my Cub Cadet Enforcer and what I found to be the problem was a wire to the saftey switch under the seat had broken. This made it sound like an engine problem by making and breaking contact as I was mowing. My first thought was a fuel filter stopped up as it was sounding like it wasn't getting fuel because it was OK when I was stopped and the engine wasn't loaded.

Check solenoid on the back of carb! I just had a similar issue with the same motor, would start rite up but had no power! new fuel pump coils, plugs ect I found the ground wire going to the coils were zip tied to manifold and rubbed through on the underside of wire never saw it 2 days later ripped it apart again and bingo found it taped it fixed problem.

see if your loosing spark when it dies could be a bad coil

We had issues in the UK with issues like this, they would blacken and soot up the plugs and start to run on on cylinder, there was an internally vented carb rather than the externally vented carb to cure this.

Well yes and yes. It is engine oil but it is synthetic. That is what many smaller hydro units use.

maybe you have a carb problem and that's why the plug get fouled out

a lot of the over head valve engines run into this carbon build up on the valve stem will bend a push rod

This engine will probably have an in line filter and a black plstic fuel pump bplted to the side of the engine, rplace the in line filter first, if no better pull the fuel hose off the carb and crank the engine, there should be a staedy flow of fuel, if not check the pipe connections on the pump are good ( it is a vacume pump, it taks a pulse from the engine to work a diaphram ) if connections are good and no fuel flow, replace the pump, there will also be an anti fire solinoid on the bottom of the carb, to check this component remove , switch the ignition on, the jet inside should sink into the housing.

i think that one is around a quart and a half

the best thing to do is to clean or replace carb filter.. check spark plug for fouling clean or replace also if gas has been sitting in unit and stored outside I would drain gas because of water contamination..

remove the muffler and try it if ok open the muffler and clean the screen

You need to remove the rocker arm cover. Then most engines have a set screw and a locking nut that hold the valve rocker arm on. Loosen the locking nut and with a feeler gage make whatever adjustment you need (tighten or loosen) then holding the adjusting screw from turning, tighten the lock nut. It is not very hard to do and remember that they are all metric fasteners.

the kill switch operate from a ground wire look to see if it is shorted\ out along the path

might be time for a good carb cleaning

check the operation of the valve on the bottom of the carb

take it apart and clean the jets

do you have dirt floating around in the carb?

check the oil and see if it smells like gas and over full the needle vavle in the carbs leak then the carb overflows into the engine change the needle and seat then change the oil a couple time then add a shut off valve in line on the fuel line and if the oil doesn't smell like gas and overfull then the head gasket might be blown