Outdoor King, the people who contribute to this forum and hindsight are AWESOME.
It is rare these days to be able to fix a household appliance, every thing seems cheap and made to be thrown away.
It is exciting to be able to fix my mower as i am very happy to say I have fixed my mower tonight.
I was so close to chucking in the towel and buying a new one, that would have been a waste especially since i heard that I, like most Australians are among the top 10% of the world's wealthiest people, being able to fix my mower helps me feel less extravagent and more able to share with the bottom 20%.
I'm raving, sorry, back to the mower.
from the advice I've read it seems that my problem was a seal or gasket and wanted to check this before dismantling the whole mower. So i tipped it up on its nose removed the carby, positioned the piston in the top of the cylinder and poured petrol in the inlet, half expecting to see it leak out of the bottom seal, I was suprised to see petrol running out from behind the flywheel.
I then removed the fly wheel to find the top seal had slid up the shaft.
I pushed it back down, reasembled the flywheel and carby, tried to start it and it fired once and within 10 minutes it was running, yeehah!
One thing I am wondering...with a spare plug in place of the decompressor and slowly rotating the flywheel by hand, I felt two areas of compression, would one of these have been a vaccuum when the piston came away from the top of the cylinder?
I guess if I had removed the spare plug and rotated by hand, I then would have felt no compression or vaccuum from the cylinder and because of the top seal, no compression from the case?
Thank you Dirty Berty
Thank you Grumpy
Thank you Joe Carroll
Thank you Bruce
Thank you Mower Man
I really appreciate your help.
SB
