Cool, thanks for the info!
The air vane governor and associated parts are missing in the photograph - I take it you removed those yourself.
Hmmm, no I didn't pull anything off it, this is how it was when I got it.
Is that the small piece of thin steel with some holes in it?
I mostly play with 2-strokes so this is all a bit new to me.
See, the guy I got it off had bought it, couldn't get it to go, someone told him it was the coil so for some reason he pulled the whole mower to bits.
All the sprockets, nuts, bolts, chains etc were in the catcher.
Then he gave up when he couldn't get a coil from anywhere and gave the disassembled mower to me....