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The Aussie perspective is interesting! You're right about mowing the grass, the whole lot of the grass. Lol In the US, or should I call it America, lol (interesting side note like 30 something years ago I always refer to it as the United States or the us but it seems a lot of Canadian people...

Yes, I keep seeing that they are going for an 8 year replacement. The oil is just a bandaid and only sometimes to help a weakening hydro. I'm not going to bother it recommend changing pull in something that isn't designed to have it changed on the chance it "might" increase it's typical...

Required - would be the operative term there. The manufacturer, of the mower and the transmission do not say it requires the fluid to be replaced. I'm not against replacing the fluid as it would be nice to get initial fill and the early break-in machining particles and stuff out of there fairly...

This is a common problem and anytime it happens after having the wheel off of a Craftsman 917. Mower it's almost always the little square key has fallen out or been pushed all the way in so it's not connecting the wheel to the axle shaft. It's not a very good design as they put a huge long...

Something doesn't look right in the pictures it doesn't sound right either. The hose should not be too short as it should come out to the exact spot where the hole is that it presses into if it's that style. It almost looks to me like the hose is reversed.. Most of those engines with the carbs...

Bert is right. Whatever you heard it's more than likely wrong! Lol This crap about once you go to synthetic you can never go back it's just that crap.. People say similar things about never switching brands of oil also which is also crap and just made up Hocus pocus that someone believed in...

It's not really about it only taking 10 seconds to do but more about the strain it puts on it if you do it abruptly and roughly instead of smoothly and if you lower the engine speed down after you're done cutting let's say and turn the blades off to even drive back to the ramp. A lot of people...

I've never worked on that many commercial mowers but I've never seen anymore with over 4200 hours on it. That was an old one with an analog hour meter with the little wheel that spun like an old odometer on a car. Most of the mowers that I've seen that are pretty hard worked start having some...

As a couple of people have said, you need to back up to the basic diagnosing when it does this. It could be any of the things others have mentioned and it could have been the bad coil from the beginning like you thought of but normally a bad coil will go 12 to 15 minutes minimum before it breaks...

For at least two decades I have been saying that the little anti backfire solenoid or after run solenoid or whatever you want to call that car solenoid is the most overpriced part on a lawn mower! They were only 68 to 89 a few years ago and they were not available in the aftermarket at all...

That looks about like several the ones I found on eBay and fits many of the Briggs & Stratton engines. I will caution people though to be careful about ordering from Amazon thinking you're getting the best price because that is not usually the case. Now occasionally, like on zone control cables...

Yes, the pricing for doing those blades is ridiculous and it's absurd to ship them around the country because they're too heavy and bulky and shipping is at all time record high prices. The trash can thing is a joke too because it's just not something that's necessary to be done because trash...

Usually you can just do a search or search on eBay for the horsepower and brand of your engine and put coil after it and find one that works. Remember that the newer ones don't always look like the older ones and even Briggs themselves have changed the overall look of their newer engine coils...

As others have stated you need the numbers off your engine but normally Briggs does stamp a number on their coil and it will be six digits long. Your engine would have had the numbers on the metal flap above the muffler which is part of the metal shroud. That's where most of them have been for...

Why do you determine that four and five are unusable? I don't really care what goes on between the middle of the blade and the tip of the blade as long as the tip and most of the cutting surface is relatively flat and parallel to the ground and ends up being at the same height above the ground...

I would like another side discussion or at least comment on this perceived value. I pretty much hate it because I feel that in most cases it's just a waste of money and a way to overpriced things and con people into spending money for them. Multi-billion dollar industries have been created for...

Yes, I extremely disagree. You could bring me multiple examples of all of those blades and I could take a push mower and I could put them on and clock them around in the two or more different positions depending on the blade design of the blade adapter until I found the smoothest most vibration...

That's so weird that you can have a majority of people who can and will remove the blade and bring them to you because most people who can do that will go ahead and sharpen it in themselves. In a large majority of areas in the country people are not going to remove them but they will certainly...

You are correct and not everyone does balancing and not every customer even knows it's a thing. I do balance every blade that I sharpen but I find there's no point in worrying about much of the crud anything over the big pieces you can push off of your fingers or just run a putty knife down it...

There is something to be said about this thought process. However, there are very few people that only sharpen blades. For those people who do sharpening services they typically sharpen more edges of other items than they do mower blades. Now I'm sure you could find someone who would be an...

I feel it's absolutely ludicrous to have such a machine. Not only is it ridiculously expensive, it only has a 2-year brush warranty so it has parts that are commonly going to wear out to cost you more money! Offer something that's completely unnecessary. Any shop owner because let's face it no...

That's just about typical but obviously you're not soaking the blades for very long minutes in some sort of bath or taking them to the wire brush on the other end of a grinder to clean off every bit of buildup or try to make them like new or something like that that's just unimportant because it...

Yes, most damage blades can quickly be spotted by simply looking at both sides. Other than that a quick push with a putty knife or scraper will clean off enough to show you what you need to know so I just see no reason for spending a lot of extra time cleaning them, wire brushing them, soaking...

I don't remember if you're one of the ones who described your process or not but most people cannot sharpen three blades. That's six cutting edges and people who do it freehand usually take much longer than that. Now, the machines that are designed to sharpen blades will of course do a cutting...

Sometimes there isn't really a point, rather just conversation.. In many of my comments on certain aspects of sharpening there is a point, or two sides to a point, and that is the time availability difference, between a private individual only doing theirs or a shop owner doing hundreds with an...

I couldn't see much of the engine in the video but it kind of looks like one of the older horizontally opposed twins to me. I think I could see an aluminum crossover intake.

I am certain you're going to find if you give it some extra fuel, I would use gas and a spray bottle or card cleaner and not starting fluid because that's way hard on an...that you will find it will not lean out like that and keep the throttle plate wide open and start to die. I can see in the...

I do not do the extra actually included things like cleaning even they are in for repair. They only get the wipe down when they are in for a service. The service includes blade sharpening along with the other typical general maintenance stuff but I want them to run like new (or often better)...

No, I would not. This is because the buildup is always from the halfway mark toward the middle of the blade and it's never on the end of the blade that does all the fast spinning. The cracks and where are always on the rear edge of the outer end opposite from the sharpened edge where the air...

Thank you - I mean no thank you.... for turning it into rocket science or brain surgery when it's just a simple old lawn mower blade spinning on the crankshaft. Keep it centered on the blade adapter and keep it balanced enough so if you hold it up in the air by the center hole with your pinky...

Again, I'll go back to how long does it take you from start to finish to remove sharpen a blade and put it back on? All this soaking, cleaning, wire brushing, scraping, blasting, etc is fine if you are the homeowner and you're only doing your blades once or maybe twice a season but even for...

It is worth noting how much certain conditions will chew up the blades. Living near creeks I think is the worst and then woods is the second worst but I learned a long time ago how amazingly rough simply sticks and or pine cones were on a blade. It makes sense that blades get chewed up if people...

But exactly how long does it take you to sharpen the average blade like this? Obviously a very dull blade is going to take long and one that's not nicked or chewed up or even that dull won't take long at all but how long does the average blade take you?

It's not It's not the governor. The governor is doing its job and when the engine starts to slow down RPMs it opens up to try to maintain the speed which eventually and pretty quickly in this case it opens to full throttle trying to get more speed. It can't do that because there's not enough...

I'm a little confused by your statement sharp side down.. I get a lot of mowers in every year the blades are on upside down and I often tell people that since they usually understand that lawn mower blades are only sharpened on one side, to put the sharpened edge up towards the sky.

Now after reading most of the replies I'm going to say I'm glad that most people realize it's not that big of a deal. Those of you who are going to insist that some commercial blade bouncer is really necessary and it makes a real difference or any other thing like cleaning off the blades and...

Before I even read the replies I'm going... Let's not! Let's don't even bother to talk about it because no one is ever going to agree on it and there no real consensus since brand new blade manufacturers will sell you a brand new blade in different types of sharpness, coated/dipped and paint, or...

It's very possible because the ACR on these Briggs & Stratton engines is an absolute joke! They should have fixed the problem long ago but Briggs basically refuses to fix anything of their inferior quality designs. Don't get me wrong, I love Briggs & Stratton engines, some of them. I just call...

These things rarely have any valve adjustment issues that will prevent them from running or running just fine UNLESS someone has been in their monkeying around. If you hear one popping out of the intake after it gets up to even slightly past a slow running speed then you can guess that the...

From all of this I think we've learned one thing and it goes back to what I always tell everyone when troubleshooting a mower... Always start by making sure the machine is getting enough fuel especially on the no starts because well over 85% of the time that is the case.. After you have...

The coil Gap is pretty forgiving on those. Just use a business card or whatever but most of them will fire just fine even at the widest position and it's more important to make sure it doesn't rub on the flywheel but a few thousands here or there is not going to cause a no spark condition. If...

Whatever happened with this? I'm a little confused if I conflicting statements in the first post. Says they think it's obviously too rich but then when they give it choke it smooths out and runs better but only has 30% power. Sounds to me like it's actually lean and even with the choke it's not...

Did you just buy this more recently? If so, I can kind of see the concern because it's a new toy but either way, I feel there's way too much thought and emphasis but into this situation.. It's a mower, you turn on the blades you drive over the grass and it cuts the grass. That's really all I...

Or just knock the the lousy green crap down and don't worry about it. You're just going to have to do it again in about a week. 2-3 weeks for me because I hate grass that much. Wait! Does that mean I should mow every 3 days. DIE GRASS DIE!

I see where you've changed the coils but you need to do basic diagnosis to see why it isn't starting when this happens. I assume it's cranking over but not running? Then the first thing would be to determine whether it's not running because it has too little fuel or too much. Technically you can...

I can't imagine commercial customers bringing in their mower every weekend for this. Is this what you're saying they do or you just mean when they do get around to it they drop it off on a weekend. I'm going to have to weigh in on that with my cheapslate(ness). I find that to be ridiculous and I...

I would either remove them if possible or just forget about it. It's really not worth messing with either way.. If you're not cutting super wet class then there's not much reason to worry about what the underside of your deck looks like until you get around to sharpening or changing out your...

No doubt everyone has a different philosophy but as I said before there are many ways to do something to obtain the same desired end result. Also, as I mentioned before apparently people's climates and conditions and other factors greatly influence what you will see or what you need to do. I...

And there we have it and just what I expected from someone.. Being critical of the method of repair when you have no information on the results of those repairs. Maybe in your experience you have seen it work out differently but I thoroughly researched this through observation and personal...

I don't find that many of the YouTube guys use this method but it's all over the place on YouTube and that's why I hate bothering with the videos and don't like it when people go there because they typically do more work than they need to do or mess things up and then can't get it fixed on their...