hi Joe

Unforunately i don't know the hostory of this mower other than it was bought new in Armidale NSW and used to cut a couple of acres of Caravan park lawns until such time as i acquired her, I used it on our lawn and the empty block next door for roughly 5 years with no problems it was quiet happy to at low-med revs manicure the nature strip, then take the catcher off lift the frame up to max and slash through foot high grass at about 3 quarter throttle, can't say i ever needed to run her flat out, it has a surpsing amount of grunt for a 2 stroke, hopefully i find a bit material on it and get her up and running again.

Ian

if a hammer doesn't fix it, the problem must be electrical