Recent content by Pablo131

Ditto - many thanks for sharing - great resource

Thanks for that - found it on parts diagram - possibly got dislodged when dissembling. Dont even recall seeing it before which probably says something. Out of interest - the mixture screw only has quarter turn on it. Clockwise lean, anti clockwise enrich?

Defo fuel - I drained the tank and carb bowl, refuelled and problem solved. I didnt bother cleaning the carb again as I couldn't possibly clean it anymore. I dont recall ever seeing a micro switch on this model - I will check the parts diagram otherwise its a linkage / cable check. Ive had this...

Problem No2 The engine speed dies when engaging the rotor. If the rotor clutch is engaged slowly the engine appears to cope. If the clutch is engaged 'normally' it dies. It used to kill the engine but the new fuel appears to give it enough energy to catch and keep going. Possibly running too...

Okay (apologies for delayed update) Basically all the aforementioned problems stemmed from poor fuel! Fresh tank through clean carbs and no problems (I think the carbs were good anyway) - lesson for me - fresh fuel every three months so Im not taking more than 3Lts at anyone time in future. As...

Much obliged - I will update once I have refuelled

Morning John and thank you for the advice - Im not sure I need to remove the pilot mixture screw but useful to know. Stupid place to put it as you can't access it when the carb is mounted - you have to remove the air filter and the carb falls off. The picture I attached was one I took prior to...

Hi John - thanks for your comments. I do think there maybe some cylinder wear as its a few years old but I am not overly concerned - generally it runs really well and I dont lose oil. Carb was completely stripped emulsion tubes etc etc twice except for the small captive quarter turn screw (I...

I thought I would drop an update for anyone remotely interested. Having stripped down the clutch and anything remotely connected all was re assembled and the bloody thing wouldnt start. Strip down the carb, clean (twice - hunting first time), new gaskets, fuel etc etc and we have a mower starts...

On this model the belt is tensioned by a spring pulling on a plastic rear roller drive transmission so I am not sure this would generate the metallic knocking - I am sure its centred on the braked rotor clutch so I will try pulling the blades around as you suggest and take a closer look at the...

Hi John, I am going to embarrass myself here but I didn't see anything which I took to be idlers when I started stripping last night. Where are they located :oops:

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Started to pull the rotor clutch off expecting to find something obvious but to my untrained eye things look pretty standard. bearing feels reasonable and no parts fell out. I feel sure this is clutch related as the metal knocking sound only occurs when the rotor is in the process of being...

Thanks for the comments posted - Im about to take a look shortly and will post a video if allowed. I have been advised to check the belt idlers (I can't visualise ATM but hopefully all will become apparent very shortly