No ive never seen a keyway broken that way. they might tell you thats whats happened but 99% of the time its a blade hit that does it.
But with one of those GMCs its more likely that the boss will explode. Alloy crap.
It was a good buy that GMC. The lady at the scrap yard said 30. I threw it on the scales and it was 25kg so I said 25 (thats the price they ask for alloy base mowers), she was sticking to the 30 as it was out special near the gate, so i tugged on the rope a bit and told her its seized, its just for bits. (it felt like soemthing else was wrong with it so i was willing to take a punt) Then when i went in and she paid me for the bit of stuff id bought in she said she only took 20 off for it.
Got it running.
Pulled the lid off and the pull starter is on the cowl with some tek screws. They were poling down between the pins.
Id say whats happend was that the pull cord broke and the guy drilled the rivets off to get the cord back out then put it back on with screws and gave up.
Put some new rivets in, cleaned some gunk and a bit of water out of the fuel tank. Put fresh fuel in and it fired on the first pull. And smoked like ten men untill all the oil burnt out of the muffler.
The Height lever is not touching the base. Just need to fix that. See if i have a spare catcher for it.
Ive got an 11xl here to wreck. So I could use the deck off that even though i was going to use it for something else.
Ive also got my eye on an 8xl.
If I cant find a deck I will just trim the alloy back and make up a new outer rin in steel and bolt that on under the alloy. Well thats provieded the spindle and all that is OK. Havent looked yet.
