[Kevin in NJ]

Good luck finding the old mowers in my area!

Most are long gone to scrap. It is amazing about how few you find in the trash today. I have a newer lawnmower I picked from the trash, it sucks. It has some kind of compression lowering thing on the valves, a crappy carb and a funky throttle linkage. The carb has a bunch of rubber that goes bad and so it cant be primed. The seal on the bowl was bad. Also they use some rubber o-rings to hold plastic main jet in place. Plus this on had some issues with the linkage from someoone trying to fix it.

I am in the market for a new one.

Speaking of new. The new new ones have all plastic carbs. You can use a metric hex to open the bottom of the carb to drain the water out. They will need the jet cleaned. Only 2 screws to take the carb off. It was easy to get apart.