Hi Bruce,
I got your manual on the 3F/3L carby and the float lever was about 7/16" so I bent it back to 3/16" as required. Where the cylinder bolts to the crankcase is clean, the bottom seal had a small amount of dust, so I have cleaned it down and will check it again after it has been run again (the motor has only done about 5 hours of work since all these seals were replaced).
The motor started after about 5 pulls and it ran like a charm, stopped for 30 seconds to re-fuel and started again ok. I then stopped the engine while I took it to the front yard and started it about 5 minutes later ... no joy .. I kept turning it over and it would fire with a puff of smoke here and there and stop .. at one stage it ran for 15 seconds at really low revs making a choof ... choof ... choof sound at each firing with a puff of smoke. I let it cool completly down and it started and ran fine again and mowed the front? I then stopped it again, waited 5 minutes and it would not start again until it cooled completely.
I will check the cup to see what type. If I can get it to behave itself I will order the pawls & cup and fuel tap as I would like to use it and it is an airloom. Do you think I could run a tiny bead of red loctite fuel/oil tolerent silicone around the join of the fuel tank to seal it?
Your help is much appreciated.
Thankyou
James
