I'm stoked with the Honda it is a beauty. All that was wrong with the pull starter was the fact somebody had obviously been bashing this mower into trees or something. The front skirt is broken and the tree branches had damaged the front of the cowl and this had pushed the cowl back about 3mm and this was enough to jamb the starter in the starter cup, was an easy fix.
The slasher gave me a bit more grief because after I had it running after picking it up I couldn't get it to run again, I'm thinking that it has a failed crank seal. Swapped another motor on with new rings and it is almost ready to tackle the big jobs again once the sun starts shining again.
Sorry BB, these Honda motors are hard to come bye and my Ariens needs a good motor on it, it has been sitting too long here.
