exotion
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Picked it up from the home depot (yes I know no dealer) but I got a hrr216vka for $300 couldnt pass it up. I have an old honda mower with a blown engine that has a blade clutch and a throttle control on it, I was wondering how diffucult it would be to put the throttle and blade clutch on the new one.
Well I have put about a lot of hours on this machine and here is my review.
First off overall the machine is very well built easy to maintain. The gcv160 is very nice I have put it through a lot of abuse and it doesn't hesitate. The quadracut is very nice I can fit a lot of clippings and leaves in the bag while leaving a beautiful clean cut. The smart drive is nice and fast easy to manuever.
Here the bad first off the smart drive has developed this squeak every time I engage it I haven't really poked around to find out why yet the little flappy paddle doesn't spring back anymore feels like I need to open the paddle up and lube the spring.
Now the worst this is the reason why if and when this machine dies I will not buy another honda. The part of the mower the bag sits in gets dirty all the time now I always bag I charge more for mulching cuz I hate it. Anyways when those get dirty and I fail to spend the time every single time I dump the bag to clean those out, I start mowing again and so much dirt and grass is in there that the bag will slip out and blow debris all over the place. Let's do some math let's assume I dump my bag six times per property I spend 30ish seconds per time I dump cleaning those annoying hooks that's 3 mins a property times about 10 houses a day that's 30 mins a day 2 and a half hours a week I have been trying to figure a way to jimmy rig the hooks so that they don't get dirty or maybe a new way to hang the bag. Anyone have any suggestions