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Originally Posted by 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.
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I've had to start using that synthetic fuel for my mowers and weed whackers-the regular gas eats up the diaphragms in the carbs these days with all the ethanol in it.