Once again thanks for all your suggestions. Here is what happened last night.

- I took off the carby float bown first and it was full of water/fuel. I decided to also remove the entire carby and blow it out with carby cleaner and clean all the passages etc..
- I drained the fuel (it was yellow in colour) I assume due to water content perhaps??
- I drained the oil from the motor (was a mixture of oil and water and other crap)
- I cleaned the spark plug and poured some fresh oil in the hole

Eventually she fired up and was blowing smoke for about a minute then ran ok.. I ran it for about 5 min then drained the oil again. This time it was the colour of Strawberry flavoured milk lol

Put some fresh oil in there, ran for 4 mins then drained and replaced oil again. This time oil looked clean and without any traces of water or anything else.. After a good clean of the deck, wheels and motor casing this is what i got for just over $100. LAte 2007 model with all the receipts, manuals, mulching ..plug etc

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