cowroy
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I will also add, if you get a splitter with a Honda engine make sure it's a GX Honda and NOT a GC Honda. I steered away from the smallest North Star because it has the GC Honda.
I vote for the Briggs also. When I was a kid mowin grass my little 5.50 I think it was mower was bogging down in some tall grass. I pulled that little governor spring and wrapped it around that bracket. She ran wide open from then on out. She never bogged down again no matter how tall the grass was. U.S.A
Most people can't get there head around what I am about to say. The reason you don't have problems with your Briggs (this applies to all small engines) is because you run them WOT. They don't have oil pumps and are designed to run at Wide Open Throttle. That is how they properly lubricate. When you back the throttle down on a small engine you are not slinging the oil around the way they were designed to do. Nor are you moving the air at the speed that the engine needs to cool. Small engines are not built like car engines to rev up and down thru the gears making power at a range of rpms. They are much simpler and are not built to operate like the gas engines that are in our cars.I did something similar to a 12 hp Briggs. That thing never gave up! I have never owned anything but Briggs engines. My current lawn mower has one. I take care of it, but I don't cut it any slack either! All day long wide open! Never misses a beat! Great engines!
I haven't seen it mentioned as you specified northern and Speeco , but do yourself a favor and look at American CLS splitters . They are a tad more expensive ,but in my opinion they are worth it . If I were to go with one of the splitters you mentioned , I believe I'd go with Speeco / TSC .redheadwoodshed...thanks for the good info about the speeco's thats the way I've been leaning. As far as it being a family splitter all costs will be shared by my brother and law and I.
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