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mows pretty good for a noisy old 2 stroke. thought I would share my antique.
That kicks my four cycle push mowers behind. My mower bogs down if the grass is any taller than the bottom of the deck. Ergh!
i hear the grass back east is hard grass. we got soft grass out west so that's probably why . my 4 stroke would smoke that thing. i've owned a few lawn boys. they do the job but IMO almost any other mower is a better choice LOL they stopped making them for a reason. really cool antique though. one of the biggest things with a 4 stroke mower is setting the governor correctly. my honda mower purs like a kitten at idle or full bore. full bore couldn't be more then 2000RPM i figure. when i hit a thick tall patch the governor thottles it up automatically so it don't have a chance to bog. many 4 stroke mowers come "eyeballed" from the factory so most governors are rarely set perfect. a high hour 4 stroke mower will almost always improve significantly just with a valve adjustment. i've seen them way way off right from the factory.
Well considering we maven been like a tropical rain forest this year... This mower is extremely high hour. We have had it over ten years. I have wondered about the valves but I don't know how to adjust them or the governor. I have the lever attached to the governor spring set all the way open but it still bogs really bad.
I just started changing the oil in it last year, lol. I did some googling and I think that the valves are my problem. I am really concered about what I will find if tear into this engine. I have my doubts about it being worth fixing. But it has run on the same oil for 8 years and just started having trouble last year.
I have seen that stupid flap when I cleaned the fins! I wonder what the heck it was. Yah, this engine has no throttle cable, just the flywheel brake.
they stopped because of the epa regulations and in taller grass this mower is just as powerful it hums under load it was lightly four stroking in this grass I mow for a living btwi hear the grass back east is hard grass. we got soft grass out west so that's probably why . my 4 stroke would smoke that thing. i've owned a few lawn boys. they do the job but IMO almost any other mower is a better choice LOL they stopped making them for a reason. really cool antique though. one of the biggest things with a 4 stroke mower is setting the governor correctly. my honda mower purs like a kitten at idle or full bore. full bore couldn't be more then 2000RPM i figure. when i hit a thick tall patch the governor thottles it up automatically so it don't have a chance to bog. many 4 stroke mowers come "eyeballed" from the factory so most governors are rarely set perfect. a high hour 4 stroke mower will almost always improve significantly just with a valve adjustment. i've seen them way way off right from the factory.
they stopped because of the epa regulations and in taller grass this mower is just as powerful it hums under load it was lightly four stroking in this grass I mow for a living btw
Well considering we have been like a tropical rain forest this year... This mower is extremely high hour. We have had it over ten years. I have wondered about the valves but I don't know how to adjust them or the governor. I have the lever attached to the governor spring set all the way open but it still bogs really bad.
Btw, this is a L-valve set up. I think. Doing reading now.
I agree that a good four stroke beats a lawnboy for power and cleanliness. However the lawnboy is very lightweight with a mag deck, and then there is the vintage cool factor which cannot be ignored by us strange 2 stroke fanatic folk. Neighbors sure hate the blue smelly smoke though. I'm not fond of the neighbors so that works for me. Come to think of it, I'm probably not too terribly fond of the EPA buracracy either.
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