Recent content by Boggie123

Thanks Paul. In my case, it was oil in the exhaust silencer (muffler). I took it off, started the engine and ran it for a couple of minutes. No smoke. So, I flushed the silencer with petrol, then hot soapy water, thoroughly dried it off and, seeing as it was off the engine, prepped it and...

Hi LochlanR. Did you get to the bottom of this? I had my mower (a Hayter Hobby 41 with a Briggs and Stratton classic 150cc, similar to yours) on its side for a while too. I was swapping the engine into another chassis and had removed the fuel tank, but not the oil. Now, with the engine fitted...

Thanks for this! It showed that I was not wrong and that the friction wheel is a slide on, push fit with keyway. However, mine had been on there for about 40 years, corroded together and so hard to budge that I considered carefully cutting it away from the crank with my angle grinder. Before I...