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Craftsman rear wheel drive walk behind mower 22 inch. I hit something while mowing and broke off the < shaped plastic attachment point for the drive cable. Also lost the spring that goes from the gear case to the rear baffle. What is that spring for ?

Thanks! I'll get a new coil with ignition chip. Umm....showing my inexperience here, but how can points/ ignition have anything to do with oil being dumped out the exhaust, onto the spark plug and all over the air cleaner? I sniffed the fouled plug and it is not fuel but oil. And there...

Forget to mention- the spark plug is new.

I have a 1982 5hp B&S engine. Here's the info from the name plate. MODEL TYPE C0DE 130202 0198 07 82042807 For several months, I've been fighting a persistent problem with this engine, which was on my late father's rototiller, and...

This is very helpful, thanks. I hadn't thought of the metal bits. There's the possibility of the governor rod getting demolished if it's no longer riding on top of the governor spool. And of course the flyweights , metal gears etc. A question though about governors in general: Suppose I...

True, true. And I thought about it. The parts are available and cheap. But I had to ask myself, if I always ran the mower at the same speed, and if I never cut tall thick grass, what good is the governor really doing me anyway?

Absolutely correct, something is not right here! The governor absolutely has failed. I have removed the governor arm completely. No spring, no nothing. I have disconnected the throttle mechanism completely. The carb is just sitting there, not connected to anything. Normally the engine...

Many thanks for the helpful replies!

I have a 1995 Craftsman mower, 917.380450. The Tecumseh engine has stamped on it 143.434082. The governor no longer functions. The governor rod "freewheels, i.e., I start the engine, with throttle disconnected, open the throttle 3/4, and there is no resistance on the governor arm. None. I...