Hi Jack,
I must admit that I beg to differ on the topic of clutches as it's only the alloy bodies that flog out and not the earlier cast iron units. I just picked up a trailer load of 5 SB's yesterday and every single clutch is OK and guess what ?, they are all the early cast iron units. I think you'll find that the cast units have absolutely no give in them thus the cotters don't come lose opposed to the alloy units which did allow the cotters to move ever so slightly and that starts the loosening process. One thing to take into consideration is that the alloy body was just another cost cutting exercise just like the twin rail was and also the plastic end caps on the front roller.
I do agree that pinning the output shaft at right angles has cured the issue to some degree but you just can't beat a cast iron clutch body and I salvage everyone that I can as they are worth an instant $80 on the nose when compared to buying alloy replacements.
Cheers,
BB
PS I've also just fallen across the very last variant of the Lawn King which had a totally different decal. I shall take a photo of it and post it up on this thread.
