Recent content by TobyU

You will likely still see the original cross hatch in the engine and they probably won't be any scores at all but if you see a few vertical ones as long as there's not five or six around the bore and as long as they're just fairly small and you can't really catch your fingernail in them too much...

You've covered a couple of things and it is usually fuel but here's the best diagnostic procedure I have found. When tomorrow comes in with a no start condition, the first thing you should do is physically look at the safety bail engine stop cable to make sure it is actually pulling when you...

Most of the ones that were going to have the major failure have already self-destructed and are out of circulation that's probably why you haven't seen them. These things kind of go in cycles. It also has to do with the region they're in which affects people's mowing habits and the season. I...

When you say it runs okay or fine with two fingers over the carburetor hole, does it rev up and go to normal full speed of around 3,400 RPMs or do you have to keep the RPMs much lower even with your fingers to get it to run? If it will go up to its normal operating speed above 32 to 3400 when...