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Leaf duty is my Snapper RER’s primary mission, so it’s still on full alert, but here in NC the end of leaf season is drawing near. When it does go into standby I remove the battery and stand it up on its hind quarters, so no need to put it on blocks. But thanks for the tip, I’ll do that for my...

Can you get two nuts that fit on those threads? If so, you can tighten the nuts against each other and then use an open end wrench on the inner nut to take out the stud.

Once you eliminate fuel, spark and timing, the only cause for nonstarting that I can think of is low or no compression.

I am not a pro so take my thoughts with that in mind. You may indeed have a carb problem, but if that were your only problem then the engine would have started and died when you had spark and used the starter fluid. Only two other causes for a no start when you have fuel and spark. Compression...

I swapped a GCV-160 into an almost new mower that had a GCV-170 with a bent crankshaft. It bolted in very easily using the same bolt holes. The only change was that the pulley on the GCV-170 was a little bigger than the one on the 160. The belt on the 170 was almost new, so I swapped the...

Sounds like you have landed on both feet. Here’s to better days ahead!

On some of the Honda mowers you can buy just the tires and save some money. I did that with an HRB 215 SXA. You need to really heat them up to get them to expand and become more pliable. Tried a propane torch but couldn’t get them hot enough without possibly catching on fire. So I put them...