Well, sorry if you've been holding your breath. ;-)
I DID get the new engine installed, though probably on the 4th try... The Honda is a nice power plant. The engine "hunts" while warming up, but settles in nicely. Found a cheap hour meter that only needs to be wrapped around the spark plug wire. That'll be nice. When thats unit battery dies, I'll make a note of total hours and install a new meter. I'll finally know how many hours the unit runs each year.
Am so happy to keep good steel out of a landfill.
Just had the steering break. Found a brand new young kid to make/weld a repair tonight. He did a great job. The steering column was missing a cotter pin that would have kept the weight off the break point. There SHOULD have been a cotter pin to keep the load off the steering column. But since there was never one that I saw, how could I have known it was missing??
The repair has been made, and the cotter pin installed. I'm still in business w/o missing a mowing cycle.
I DID get the new engine installed, though probably on the 4th try... The Honda is a nice power plant. The engine "hunts" while warming up, but settles in nicely. Found a cheap hour meter that only needs to be wrapped around the spark plug wire. That'll be nice. When thats unit battery dies, I'll make a note of total hours and install a new meter. I'll finally know how many hours the unit runs each year.
Am so happy to keep good steel out of a landfill.
Just had the steering break. Found a brand new young kid to make/weld a repair tonight. He did a great job. The steering column was missing a cotter pin that would have kept the weight off the break point. There SHOULD have been a cotter pin to keep the load off the steering column. But since there was never one that I saw, how could I have known it was missing??
The repair has been made, and the cotter pin installed. I'm still in business w/o missing a mowing cycle.