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Today at work, a sales rep for Honda came in for his monthly visit & told us that the Robin/Subaru factory in Tokyo Japan will be closing down next year, due to the factory not making a profit. He says that Honda world wide are starting to ramp up operations at plants in China, India, Taiwan to...

Today I removed a gearbox with no drive to the rear wheels , from a HRU216, a 21" mower (MATU-1008834), my question is the numbers on the side of the gear casing, do they have a meaning: Aa3-0063342 I suspect that this gearbox will have worn input drive gears, tomorrow I shall pull it apart to...

Is there much interest in the Americas cup yacht race? team New Zealand won the Louis Vitton cup & is now challenging Oracle team USA, for the Americas cup in Sanfrancisco. The first team to win nine races wins the cup, so far team New Zealand leads with 4 wins so far.:thumbsup: everyone here in...

Hi, today i found out about another mower brand that i have never heard of before, "Bigdog" made by Excel industries in Hesston, Kansas. A company here in New Zealand has started importing them & Bearcat products, a company rep called in today to see if we would become the local area agent for...

A question for all you fellow mechanics, when checking the oil on a GXV530 have you ever seen white sludge on the inside of the oil fill/dip stick tube? I only see it on these GXV530 v-twin engines that come in to my workshop, it kinda looks like what you get on the underside of a oil cap on a...

How many of you mowing contractors or small engine service centers like myself, keep a lot of second hand parts from old/dead machines & think that" 1 day i may use that" or "i could sell that to someone ", i have got to a point where a lot of the old stuff is being scrapped, eg- i found a...

Today this Honda HF2417HME ride on mower came into the workshop, the owners had just moved in to town from elsewhere so this is the only mower of this type in town, the chassis & cutter deck look just like the Castle garden twincut from Italy which there are plenty of those around, a feature on...

Hi, just thaught i would ask if anyone is using Husqvarna Riders with articulated steering like the R13C rider or R18 rider thru tu PF21AWD rider, just wondering how happy you are with them, do you use them all year round or remove the decks & use other attachments, i personaly like using &...

Hi to you all, I stumbled across this site a week ago & have answered a few questions already the best i could, I live in the north island in New Zealand, the mower shop i work at sells both Stihl & Husqvarna products plus many others. I am a Briggs & Stratton MST also a Kohler autherised tech...