Hi bonnar_bloke (and others),
At the risk of reviving an old thread, I'm looking for more advice on the above issue. I did adjust the clutch fork and had some instant relief from the issue - unfortunately, it was only short-term and started reoccurring again. I adjusted again on the weekend just gone to the point where the cutter clutch lever was reasonably hard to manipulate - this solved the problem but only in the short-term again. The cutter blade seems to always want to engage when the engine is running, to the point where if the engine is at full speed and the cutter is engaged, when I disengage it using the lever it doesn't even slow down (keeps rotating at full speed).
I'm at a loss as to why it's suddenly doing this but can only assume it may be an issue with the worn black plastic thrust pad on the cutter clutch? Could this be correct and is this part hard to replace?
Thanks again.
Kenny.
