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I was having a hard time envisioning what you were talking about. I have that mower but rather than dig it out of storage, I looked at the diagram on PartsTree. Have you seen the special Honda tool part # 99004-21002, on the diagram for the bagging attachments? It looks like a very thin...

I have a couple of Toro’s with the same issue, except mine are from the early 1980’s and didn’t start slipping out of the adjuster notches until they were more than 20 years old. I did what Tiger Small Engine suggested and that worked for a while, but the metal was fatigued after all those...

Please do not take offense, but did you put the blade on upside down? My brother could not fix his BBC Honda of same vintage as yours. Motor seemed to be locked up. He gave me the mower for parts. When I got it I noticed that the blade had been recently sharpened and was on upside down. I...

This could be completely bogus but I once read that oil goes bad with time even if you aren’t putting miles or time on the engine. I don’t think a few months make much difference anyway, but I figure why not start the season with completely fresh oil?

I think you are a suspenders and belt kind of guy. Don’t change a thing. What you are doing is working for you. But you asked about how water got in the fuel tank. As Taryl has often said, outdoor equipment does a lot better when it is stored inside, but a lot of people leave them outside...

Have you checked engine rpm’s?

Sorry, spelling error. The bail is the lever that you pull back to disengage the engine brake and the grounding wire, ie: it is part of the deadman switch that shuts down the engine and blade when it is released.

Glad you like your new mower. Let me suggest a solution for the uncomfortable handle. I have a Honda mower with a similar square shaped handle. I wrapped it with handlebar tape, the stuff used on racing bikes with down-turned handlebars. You can get it at any bike shop in any color and...

Here’s a stab in the dark. Check to see if the flywheel brake is on even when the bale is pulled back. Or, does the bale not pull all the way back? Could your cable be corroded inside the housing, preventing full travel of the cable and leaving the brake dragging on the fly wheel?

You have thrown a lot of parts at this. With all those new parts and no spark, best guess is that the kill switch is malfunctioning and is in the “on” position all the time. Try pulling the kill wire off the coil and see if that lets you start. If so, check out the connection where the wire...

I suspect the deck is tilted to one side. Think about it this way. Imagine that the deck is lower on the right and thus leaves the grass cut on the left of the deck higher than on the right. Say the first pass is northbound. The grass on the west side will slant uphill. Then the operator...

I have the RX75, same mower except for a couple bells and whistles. It’s a single blade.

A little puff of smoke on start-up is very typical, at least in my experience with the 6 Hondas I’ve had. The smoke disappears in less than a minute. How bad is it smoking?

Thanks. Added a copy to my saved files.

In my part of North Carolina fescue was the most common type of grass, but we were always right on the edge of being too hot for fescue. Today we have clearly moved onto the warm season grasses like Bermuda or Zoysia. I have stuck with fescue so far but it is a struggle to keep it alive...