OutdoorKing Repair Forum Forums Repairs and Maintenance Questions on Engines Questions On Honda Engines Honda GXV 120 smoking/overhaul help please

Sorry Terrys, I missed that post. Let's compare three GXV120 crankcase covers. Here is chris125's from the other thread you cited:


As you said, it has a hole near the centrifugal governor mechanism. I can't tell whether it is tapped or just a cored recess in the casting.

Here is the crankcase cover for a self-propelled model which I happen to have.



As you can see, it has the same hole, but it is not tapped and may be for a feature only used on some models, or a left over feature that Honda's engineers thought was a good idea initially but no longer use.

Here is the crankcase cover for a non-self-propelled model which I also happen to have.


As you can see, the cored hole is not present. Perhaps by then Honda had deleted the feature from the tooling, or this was made before they added the feature to the tooling.
In any case, I don't recall seeing a GXV120 in which that hole was actually used to attach anything.