Previous owner's wife ran it into a fence. Some small dents in the exhaust, the valve cover is bent, some small braided tube above the air cleaner got nicked.
For the last YEAR he'd been pushing in on some bracket atop the carb with his finger to get it to run, prior to pulling the rope. Ran great when I picked it up. Didn't always run right tho back home, and I never got a chance to mow a full lawn as other projects came due.
At home I pulled the carb and could see nothing bent or binding-- even with the autochoke. That's said, the thermowhatever pin that activates the choke has a small target to engage. Dumb design. As many of you know.
Put it back together, got it started and noticed no difference between hi and low throttle speed. Blipped the governor by hand once or twice to hear it rev up. It died and wouldn't restart. I waited a few minutes and it started only enough to run until about the time I let go of the rope. Wait a few minutes, rinse and repeat.
This is a K3 but not within the range of the defective models. I may rig some bolts that'll hold the carb on without the air cleaner so I can freaking SEE what's going on with the linkage before throwing money at a new choke assembly and entire carb. Hidden mechanisms are so frustrating.
For the last YEAR he'd been pushing in on some bracket atop the carb with his finger to get it to run, prior to pulling the rope. Ran great when I picked it up. Didn't always run right tho back home, and I never got a chance to mow a full lawn as other projects came due.
At home I pulled the carb and could see nothing bent or binding-- even with the autochoke. That's said, the thermowhatever pin that activates the choke has a small target to engage. Dumb design. As many of you know.
Put it back together, got it started and noticed no difference between hi and low throttle speed. Blipped the governor by hand once or twice to hear it rev up. It died and wouldn't restart. I waited a few minutes and it started only enough to run until about the time I let go of the rope. Wait a few minutes, rinse and repeat.
This is a K3 but not within the range of the defective models. I may rig some bolts that'll hold the carb on without the air cleaner so I can freaking SEE what's going on with the linkage before throwing money at a new choke assembly and entire carb. Hidden mechanisms are so frustrating.