Hi guys,
we've had this old and mistreated lawn mower for three or four years (bought from cash converters for $95) and although it's never run quite right, and is ear-bleedingly loud we're fond of its rugged charm grin

Now that our lawn has finally grown past the point of not only shrouding the house in mystery, but also devaluing house prices throughout our suburb I decided last weekend to sharpen up the blades, clean it up and have at it.
What started as a quick spruce-up led to dismantling almost everything and shooting a quick rattle-can coat of killrust on the engine cover, and ended late Sunday night with this:
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Unfortunately we also have a delegation of neighbours, several logging trucks, 40 Ewoks with rope bridges between their huts and a wild rabble waving flaming torches camped in the street waiting for the lawn to be mowed. Despite being pampered and cleaned and reassembled haphazardly Betty refuses to play. B&S ID is as follows:
Model 92502, Type 0938-01, Code 78052501
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Perhaps the crudely stuck on FORD logo has something to do with it:
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Or PERHAPS it has something to do with the fact that when I reassembled it all I used no new parts. Frankly I had no new parts, so instead made do with welding and grinding and wire brushing old ones in order to make them look less filthy and dilapidated. One thing I found disturbing was the slow weeping of fuel from around the base of the carb gasket after I 'primed' it with a shot down the guts:
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I get a cough and a couple of fires and then she goes back to sleep. idle/mixture screw thingum was wound out 2 turns, then 2.5 and then three to no avail. I used to be able to get her screaming and running quick enough by 'priming' and jamming the butterfly open with the aircleaner screw, but no dice.

Next step? points are clean, gap is 20 thou, fuel tank is cleaned out, fuel pickup tube screen thing is clear, aircleaner is... disgusting, but left off mainly [Linked Image]
and oil has been changed for the first time since 25th may 1978.
Thinking of buying Diaphragm and this: [url=https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/bmz_cache/d/d844bb80cbb61e6752272cfe02a98188.image.320x320.jpg][/url]

but none of the model numbers line up with anything and I'm not sure if this is just going to be a waste of time.

Thoughts?


there's always oil and dirt under them...