Recent content by NJDan

I'll give that a try, thanks.

Thanks for the replies so far. A quick background and then a guess: Ran mower dry on oil last year and cratered the connecting rod. Took it apart and the cylinder looked fine. The rod journal had melted onto the crank bearing so I cleaned it up with acid per recommendations here and it...

I just finished rebuilding my Honda HRX217K4HZAA mower (twice, actually). I'm having trouble with the pull start. I've been using the rope because the battery on the electric start is drained down right now. When I put the mower back together the pull start worked fine. Now I'm finding that...

Just to close out this thread -- I put a new governor in the engine and got it running again. The mower ran at the perfect RPM right off the bat! Lesson learned. If the governor weights are not moving freely all the time when you touch them then replace it! I do have another issue now but...

I got the engine apart to see what's going on with the governor and here is what I found. One of the weights was sticking and so it appears that the governor was not able to provide the force needed to push the arm. I did two short videos. The thing is that I saw this before I closed it up...