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Ok mower back yesterday with new transmission. So now it basically has a new engine and a new transmission. They even joked with me that if anything else goes wrong with this mower that Honda should give me a brand new mower.

I received a call from the dealer and Honda has approved a brand new transmission. So perhaps this saga will now end. I have to say the engine is now running like butter so if the tranny replacement is done correctly I will finally have a great Honda, but damn its been a long time coming since...

Got the mower back and supposedly all fixed. Well ground speed issue wasn't fixed when I got back home but noticed the youtube video on how to adjust the throttle cable and that fixed the ground speed problem but grinding was still there. I noticed today a couple of fluid drops under the mower...

Latest update. Took my mower out for the first mow of the season very small growth but you know once the grass gets going it will grow quickly. Well I start it up and engage the tranny and it sounds like a coffee grinder. I keep going and after say 20 minutes it got a little better but had to...

That's sweet!!

I just wanted to let you guys know that I had to have my entire engine replaced. Ever since I got the mower back from the original camshaft repair I have had to always add some oil after every other use. I thought man this uses oil up but didn't think anything of it as there were no noticeable...

I just wanted to let you guys know that I had to have my entire engine replaced. Ever since I got the mower back from the original camshaft repair I had to always add some oil after every other use. I thought man this uses oil up but didn't think anything of it. Literally one of my last mows, I...

Did you not read "...If anyone has any questions, you are more than welcome to contact me directly, but I am not here officially." I tried to help you understand the issue by letting you know they know. No good deed goes unpunished as they say. I would have thought it was obvious not to...

Yes he took that risk but copying his whole comments and putting it in your case file wasn't a great thing to do. He PM'd and asked me if I contacted Honda and shared that post with them and I said I did not. To me you could have made the case to Honda with the knowledge you obtained without...

Bro, that engineer that was trying to help people is now in trouble it seems because you put the post I showed you to help you in the actual case file you opened with Honda when the engineer was writing in an unofficial capacity. That wasn't really cool to out him like that when he is trying to...

My dealer opened up every one of the HRX mowers and tested and every one needs a repair! Not a good deal. My mower came back and I put a tach on it and it was at 2600 and the specs are 2900-3100 and the dealer forgot to replace the broken pull handle that originally broke when the handle was...

The cam impacts the compression release. I was told Honda has 7 day not 30. My dealer refunded me twice as it happened to two mowers. Then the honda guy fedexed a new cam to my dealer and I purchased the first mower back repaired. A question I have is if the dealer fixed that many why would he...

You might get yours quicker if you see this thread and the Honda Engineer's reply. He fedex'd the part to my dealer for repair and I got my mower in a few days. https://www.lawnmowerforum.com/threads/mower-wont-pull-start.72841/

Yes, this is a known issue and a service bulletin is coming while they produce the quantity of the new camshafts. I had my mower repaired but was lucky and got one of the new camshafts sent to my dealer from a Honda engineer that was monitoring the forum and saw my post about this. It will get...

It's now a known issue with the camshaft. A service bulletin is coming but they have not manufactured enough replacement camshafts yet to fix this so they haven't released the service bulletin. I went through 3 mowers until I got a repair. No matter what you do if that is the problem it wont...

Yeah remember when a refrigerator would last 25 years. The one my parents purchased in 1964 is still running at my brother's house and survived 4 moves!! Now they say 5-7 years. What a joke!!

Thank you and I sent you the information in a conversation. I think that's how it works.

How long do you think the parts backorder is gonna be? My dealer says its like trying to get blood from a stone.

Understood and thank you for the info. I just want to have a shiny new HRX that works.

I think it's the cam/automatic compression release problem I have been reading about. Take a look at the RECENT 1 star reviews on the Honda Site.

If its like the GCV200 mower the cam timing is off and there is a video on youtube showing how to adjust this. I had two brand new Honda HRX217HZA's both fail within 4 days of the first mow. Cam not working with automatic compression release so its firing too early. I also talked a honda...

I had the exact same issue with two brand new mowers in a row over the last couple of weeks. Mowed the first time perfectly, 4 days later went to start for 2nd mow and no go. Drove it back to dealer and yep cam shaft issue (I think it isn't allowing the automatic compression release to...