Blade carrier and engine off today. Impact driver worked exactly as it should, a first for me! My daughter's quite interested so whilst watching I managed to fit in a lesson on safety glasses (no glasses, no watch- even had a pair that fit her) so hopefully another good habit taught for life...she's a great listener and observer. And first thing she wanted to do was push 'her' trolley around...
Anyway, the blade carrier bolt was slightly unusual, 9/16" rather thsn the 1/2" I though I measured. The nuts on the engine mounting bolts were actually 14mm so may be non-original.
The Kirby/Lauson is mounted on three similar non-evenly spaced holes. They are approx 155mm, 165mm and 195mm apart.
Impressed how light the alloy base was for such a hefty piece of metal.
Will do measurements better later on, it was 2am and dark. Need to get an inch measuring tape I suspect!
Even more interesting, there's another three evenly spaced holes around the engine mounting ring so I wonder if another engine was also fitted to this base, e.g. a two stroke? Probably in one of Jack's photos I can't scroll back to at the moment.
Should've drained the oil, when I tipped the mower/engine over (to get at the bolts/nuts) afterwards I spun the engine over intending to look in through the spark plug hole and it pumped oil out the breather, which backflowed all down through the mostly degreased engine...
Also have some cuts in my fingers from the spark test the other day, must've been some razor sharp metal edge on the broken starter wheel.
A closer look at the logo also showed either it's been repainted or they did a bodgy job in the first place. Might look for some original paint underneath at some point.
All an adventure! Pics later.
