hey everyone and thanks for the help!!!!! ill start from top lol. about 3 days ago my mower wasnt starting so i changed my fuel with fresh stuff and it didnt start so i got a new spark plug cause it looked all old and needed to be changed and she still didnt start then i remembered the old fuel i flushed out had some chunks in it so i thought maybe carby is blocked so i took the bowl off( had chunks in it) and the bowl screw and the carby and then i used a compressor to blow out the bowl bolt holes and the carbys holes as well still didnt start but i saw on a website to clean the magneto and coil cause they get rusted after a while and give no spark so i cleaned them up because they were rusted pretty bad from mower sittin in the shed for ages and i also read on some other website to take off the black cut off cord so i did then it didnt start !!! so i brought a can of starter fluid puts heaps of that in then gave it a couple of pulls then she fired up with huge black cloud. so i left it running and put black cord on so i could turn it off when i was finshed. so i did front lawn turned it off then went to do back lawn and then it started stright away i was scared it wasnt going to start again lol but it started so i did back lawn put her back in shed came back 2-3 days later just to see if it would start and it wouldnt so thats when i did all the valves and stuff cause i thought maybe no/low compression so i cleaned up both valves and seats and the piston top and they were pretty gunked up (6 year old mower) and then it still wouldnt start so just out of curiosity i wanted to check spark again and it had none i was liek WTF! so i cleaned up the already cleaned magneto and coil and did the gap again with a bussiness card still no spark.

should i try take off the cut offf cord again?

i think it only started again on taht day because it was already warmed up. and that day it had a nice blue spark.


Yes bruce i checked valves with a feeler gauge after i cleaned them all up and the seats.


yeah joe and grummpy i think yous are right the black cord

Last edited by Blown Vl; 15/09/09 02:51 PM.