THIS IS SOLVED.
For anyone interested, the problem had nothing to do with compression, head gasket or timing. The issue was the spark plug - yep, the friggin spark plug! Even though I had decent spark - it was CLEARLY visible during the day AND re-gapped it AND cleaned the contacts, it was...
Hi again,
Sadly I'm still in no go city.
I'm attaching some pics to help explain what I'm seeing (or not seeing) as I still can't find the problem.
When I looked at the outside I thought I had a blown head gasket. (Side pic with head assembled).
I removed the spark plug and rocker cover. I...
Thank you for the awesome reply! This will be my weekend job, but at least now I have a few things to easily test and look for. Very much appreciate your help!
I'll post the results in the hope it helps someone else also.
Cheers
Hi folks,
This is my first post so my apologies if it's in the wrong spot.
I have a Victor V40 4 stroke push mower that was working perfectly. Couple of weeks ago I was mowing away (it started perfectly cold) but eventually needed to empty the catcher. Throttled down to idle, took out the...