This mower now looks a lot better, in my opinion. Lack of spark ! wish this could be explained with some science but no. Got a friend to come over with all the gizmo meters, I grab a coil off the bench, ( one of a couple which came off working engines ) bolt it up, gap it etc, nothing, multimeter says working, I stick a screwdriver in the end of the plug lead and tell my friend to crank it over because I know I'm not going to get a shock, nothing, checked all the plugs I knew worked as they came out of working mowers, nothing. Got a new plug out of the stock, spark ! reassembled, start up no problem and runs great. Take the new plug out and put the original one in and runs fine. Put the plugs back in the working mowers and they all started fine. Its a beast of a mower and ready for a lot of mowing, i know there are lots on the site who are not fans of Briggs and Stratton but I think they are very good ( earlier models ) and the IC series are a great engine. Self propelled gearbox works fine, I think Tyler worked it out early on in the thread when he suggested the fuel tank seam came apart maybe and caused this whole palaver.
