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Sweet! I'll be happy if I become proficient enough to troubleshoot common problems on my mower but it is a great feeling knowing I fixed something with my own two hands (even if I did need help from the internet lol). Forgot I took a video. About 1 minute give or take after I pulled the cord.

Since I had already ordered the carb I went ahead and just swapped it out and good news is she is running great now! At least to me. I was so excited that she is now running that I did not think to look more at the arms. I will clean up the arms and have a better look. I assume since she is...

Thanks for the info! I didn't see your reply until just now, I must have been on a cached version of the page up. Carb swap and she is running like a beauty! I will still get an RPM gauge to check if it is running at close to the correct RPM or not. Hoping I do not need to do the governor...

@Rivets you rock! Took a whole 10 minutes to swap the carb out. Started on the first pull and ran for over 4 minutes until I shut it off. Then I started it again and cut the front yard with it. Zero issues now at least to my inexperienced self. Let me know if I can buy you a case of beer...

Ok, I'll have to clean it up and have a look. Does it look bad in this picture? I thought maybe it was good but guess I'll have to hunt down an example photo to verify.

Ok, great. Ordered, should be here by this weekend. I will report back what I find.

Well good news is the mower starts fine now. Starts right up and runs for about 60-90 seconds then the carb valve opens up (I am verifying the valve behind the air filter is opening in case I am saying it wrong) and the governor arms start hunting around and the mower dies and will not start...

Ok, great. I had run across a carb assembly on ebay for around $20 but wasn't sure it is what I needed. Mower is probably a few years old. So it sounds like this is very much a rip and replace operation. Meaning I take out the old one and chunk it and put the new one in it's place? If so...

Ok, As usual, it looks like maybe I may have been over complicating it. Once I understood a little better how the system works I was able to determine that this doohickey (governor arm?) was bent! Seems like it was bent in too much, can anyone confirm? As you can see in the 3rd picture...

So Initially when I'd try to start the mower it would run for 2-3 seconds and turn off. It seemed like it would blow a puff of air right as it died. Of course I did not get any videos of the original symptom. I drained the gas and filled with new gas. No change in behavior. I tried...