oh your a B&S man. Did you work at a factory building mowers ?
yeah the joys alright. just now carefully unclogged 2 of the 3 exhaust holes they were totally sealed i was wondering if they were supposed to be like that but someone told me there are 3.
that may explain when i did have it running for all these years why the power was diminishing.
now I'm gonna start on the muffler. I don't think the muffler bolts are stock because the head sat outside the hole that ran to the underneath, that's why i couldn't get it off because it was just spinning around and i couldn't grab the other end.
Pete