Yes Jack, "interesting" is one way to describe it!! Thankfully the nut that supports the bracket is rusted on good and proper. On another run today, it picked up some leaves at about 1/3 throttle and spat them a good 4m away. It must have been one wicked machine in its day. I do see why it may just have been, "The best mower money can buy!"
Tried to have a go at setting the timing today, as per the instruction manual. Was actually worse than where I had just plonked it on yesterday. It really didn't want to go much above 1/3 throttle and I wasn't going to push it. I suspect the error is that of the user, it wanted to be set MORE advanced than full advance.
This aspect is not super-user friendly, and I blame Wipac (and thus the Brits.
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It's a right bugger to do, since the metal plate is only held on by two bolts, it's easy to rotate it just a tad too for and then tip it off balance slightly. Simple in theory, annoy in practice.
It also seems that the flywheel is lightly scuffing the coil. It looks to be the magnets. There is really no way to actually set the air gap, and it isn't mentioned anywhere I can see. Ideas...?
