This is my Sons mower in New Zealand, wonder why we didn't get these here, I have at least 2 of these 632 Masport mowers here but not with this motor. It is a 2 stroke which he has had for over 15 years and has never touched anything on it, never even taken the spark plug out of it, never misses a beat.
Might be that the market sector for 2-strokes didn't decline quite as quickly in NZ as it did here. The Kiwis are still a pretty self-reliant lot it seems, at least compared to the average urbanite Aussie these days. So they wouldn't be very fussed about mixing up fuel.
The throttle control is by the dial on the top of the motor, would save on all those rusted up throttle cables we get all the time
Well, that was really a bean-counter cost cutting exercise in the US, as AVB has mentioned. Masport first tried fitting these on Briggs engines back in the 1970's, but soon realised that the Oz market preferred a cable remote throttle.
